So the RFL gave us £5000 to attend and £5000 for hosting the event (a room with some chairs in), and they're talking about fining us £10,000....I'm no mathematician, but I don't think we'll be too far out of pocket there.....

So the RFL gave us £5000 to attend and £5000 for hosting the event (a room with some chairs in), and they're talking about fining us £10,000....I'm no mathematician, but I don't think we'll be too far out of pocket there.....

All this conjecture is for the birds. You Finished top of the league so you will obviously win the grand final cos you are the best team. You are the best team over 27 rounds. Go and prove it. If you cant, then mi casu su casu!

Over the 27 rounds we were the best team. That is fact because the league table proves it. Whether some teams weren't a4sed about it enough or not is by the by because we don't have a league table for how a4sed teams were and a co-efficient to then extrapolate a "true" table.

The GF focusses the top teams into a mini-league at the end of the season. The fewer the number of games, the more a one off result can skew things. This is not to deride the GF, it's a stasitical fact that the more events in a series then it smoothes out anomolous results in that series of events.

People forget that BITD when we had this format we actually had it because in the regular season there was a Yorkshire League and a Lancashire League. It was after that we had the Premiership. In other words, the Premiership was there because not all the teams played each other beforehand and was used as a way to decide the overall champions as a result. For the first couple of years of SL we had GF winners and then the Premiership.

Oh god. You're one of [ithose[/i people. Look, it's almost a paradox. Bottom line, grand final decides champions. To discuss the relative merits of first past the post currently holds no relevance because as long as the grand final decides champions everyone will have differing approaches to the regular season as finishing top doesn't give you the main prize. So there will be anomolous results, theres no smoothing out of anything.

To win the grand final you need to beat your main rivals, in multiple games when everything is on the line. Every knock on, mis-placed pass and penalty, every little detail can be crucial. The pressure is immense. It's a great way to decide the champions. It's only since these new teams with their uppity fans have arrived on the scene, finished near the top and failed to win the big prize we've heard murmerings about it. For the best part of a decade many teams like wigan, saints and bradford finished top and failed to be champions and no one batted an eyelid.

The statement about a tele conference was made by the BBC sport on line thing & Eddie Hemmings asked Prof Broomhead to confirm, he said it wasn't correct. what is wrong with that

Does anyone really respect clubcall if not, then what has he disrespected?

Famous Sidney Suburb?

"New teams"

We lost the right to choose when we lost to Wigan.we can't expect to then make the choice for someone else.Lets just get on with it and support our team.

Agreed would have loved Wire to come out and toss a coin live on air to decide then it would have been dead in the water from that moment on.

This thread is the biggest dummy spit I've ever seen on any of the RFL Fans forums. The Rattle & Teddies have been thrown out and digested with the sourest of Grapes all at once.

Would your preference have been to go back to Wigan and have your s handed to you on a plate again ?

You finished top of the table & should fear no-one. Stop crying about being picked and concentrate on your rugby as you should have no problems on Thursday night if your as good as you think you are.

Wire picked you because they wanted to send Leeds to Wigan so they can smash each other up before the GF. It was a tactical decision. So if you win Thursday you'll be thanking Smith and his arrogance for making the final a little easier for you.

Yep

The original post is just embarrassing and I've not read the rest of the thread

This

Or maybe do ip-dip-do between Ken Davy and Gary Hetherington. That would also have padded the moment out and increased the tension.