Lol..... it's a Saturday night.... I'm towin

Sympathies-
But to those who are saying it's one game... it's not. Teams are given a whole season to show they have what it takes.
Leigh's s fell out in the final game.... but they were in that game because they weren't a top 8 side for 23 rounds- and weren't a top 3 side of the rest.
I do think however that teams coming up should be given a years "grace" to enable them to sort contracts etc.
Leigh will still be a better side than the rest in the championship. So I expect them to be challenging next season.
Good luck guys.

Unlucky to leigh today (wish widnes would of been there cos of betts)think how its all down to one game is unfair had these teams won enough sl games or sl qualifies games they wouldnt be playing in this game anyway.as for the concept i think its great but im wakey and 2 years ago we where rock bottom then scraped in into mpg and the rest is history

As a neutral, although of the two I would have liked Leigh to win, I have to say that was dreadful to watch.

Perhaps this game should be played before the top four playoff games. Because the gulf in class is too marked. After Cas vs Saints and Leeds vs Hull we are treated to this shoite.
Perhaps do away with it altogether.

I imagine losing in the MPG feels worse than the old system . But ive watched Cas get relegated twice and more recently be 30 mins from being liquidated. This season was always going to tough , especially with some of the players in the squad (not trying to sound condesending) . Good luck next season and I sincerely hope you come up at the first attempt.

'Hopefully'..

Feel for you leythers. But thank you for carrying the championship torch this year.

I take no joy in saying it - I feel utterly dejected right now - but I did say on here, weeks ago, that I felt that our lack of class and pace, would get us relegated. I still feel that was the over-riding reason for our failure. True, we have had a handful of outstanding victories, yet have never been able to back them up with another outstanding performance, so yes, the season has to be classed as a failure.

Yesterday was just another classic example of our dreadful inconsistency. Just six short weeks ago, we hammered Catalans, scoring five tries, having four disallowed, and conceding just one. We have had convincing victories against Saints, Huddersfield, Warrington, Wigan, Hull, and Salford as well - and equally convincing defeats at their hands.

We have had a 'troubled' season, with injuries, suspensions, and apparent fall-outs. Just look at who was unable/not allowed to play yesterday - Brown, Higson, Ridyard, Hock, Weston, Pelissier, Vea, McNally, Green, Acton, Mortimer, and Langi. Would any of them have made a difference? Maybe, maybe not, but many of them would/should have been first choice selections. I refuse to criticise individual players. They are all 'heroes' to me, and have sweat blood in the cause of 'my' club', but there is just no substitute for class and, in my opinion that was a quality in short supply this season.

With the benefit of hindsight, we probably signed too many 'experienced' players, whose bodies just weren't up to the demands. We never managed to eradicate the 'discipline' problem that plagued us through the Championship years. Our coach was inexperienced, at this, or at any senior level. I still say he did an amazing job to succeed in his first season. As for this season, well he was given plenty of 'experience' to back him up. Was there too much experience in that back up - i.e. was it a case of too many cooks (pardon the pun) with clashing egos getting in the way?

In my opinion, we got many things wrong and were unable to put them right. We need to learn from the many mistakes that were made, and rectify them for next season. There isn't much time to do that. How many players (and coaches) will want to stay? How many will be asked to stay? There is an excellent opportunity to have a mega clear-out, with contracts being null and void, yet that may not be a brilliant idea. There is very little time/opportunity to build something completely new, as a lot of personnel will already be signed up by other clubs, for 2018. When we do recruit, please let pace and class be high on the list of qualities we look for.

So, to the title of this thread. Yes, I firmly believe we deserved what we got - but it really pains me to say it.

Right - when do the 2018 season tickets go on sale!

8k home crowd ave
Cracking location/visiting experience
International inclusion
Wider audience/exposure of the game.

Cheers Leythig. That was my way of diplomatically saying that we had too many old players and not enough young ones!