Quote Wires71="Wires71"After the Wire vs Wigan CC game Tomkins gave the game away. He said "there was only 1 trophy left to play for now" referring to the GF. He then corrected himself and said "1 major trophy".'"
and isn't that the problem?
We might all subscribe to that view, certainly Wigan, Leeds and St's do, as it sets them as teams apart, whereas, ourselves in 2011 and last year's Castleford might have been 'guilty' or accused of bigging-up the 'lesser' trophy?
My point is that whatever the format it should be fair and by that I mean balanced, easy to follow and transparent, given a significance based on more than, well we've always done it this way and 'proper' Championship teams save a little in their tanks for the business end and hopefully under the floodlights in October.
We shouldn't necessarily depend upon it, but, we are additionally hampered by a lack enthusiasm from our antipodean counterparts for the WCC We've virtually aligned our league seasons to our detriment apart from nicer weather and avoiding clashes with soccer IMO.
Association Football might not be a good comparison but would a situation of LLS are the Champions going to a top 4 play off to decide who represents SL v Australian's Champions work better, a bit Champion's League ish? SKY will still get their showcase end of season finale and the LLS gets some respect.
