Quote: mikej "As far as topflight RL being mostly decided in aplyoff basis, prior to Superleague my memory is that the CHAMPIONS were decided by who finished top of the LEAGUE TABLE. The premiership was a separate competition and in fact being LEAGUE CHAMPIONS was seen as "the thing" to be.'" That is a memory of how things were for a period between mid 1980s and birth of Super League. Check Wikipedia here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Foot ... ampionship ..........which proves my point. RL champs almost always decided by a system of play-offs.

Quote: mikej "As far as topflight RL being mostly decided in aplyoff basis, prior to Superleague my memory is that the CHAMPIONS were decided by who finished top of the LEAGUE TABLE. The premiership was a separate competition and in fact being LEAGUE CHAMPIONS was seen as "the thing" to be.'" That is a memory of how things were for a period between mid 1980s and birth of Super League. Check Wikipedia here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Foot ... ampionship ..........which proves my point. RL champs almost always decided by a system of play-offs.

I've enjoyed watching Wigan this year, especially at the start of the season. They were great again at the weekend and even if we had won in Perpignan I didn't think we'd win the league when you factor in the challenge cup which will have a massive effect of the game before and after the final should we get there. Tompkins has been freakish and I like him at FB, while Richards has really driven on from a good season last year. Roberts was amazing before picking up his injury.

Still, after last year, we proved we can win onthe big occasion and there's nothing to make me disbelieve that we can't do it again and be in the GF. The play-offs this year should be real hum dingers.