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| Quote Young Warrior="Young Warrior"I agree with you there mate, I think it is a bit of a shambles that 3rd or 5th can win it now, whilst the two consistently better sides this year are out (which is deserving, but you get my point)
You can't have it both ways. Either the top club at the end of the season are crowned champions or accept the system and accept that you were also rans on both counts.
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| I'll put my hands up my first comment was wrong. I think whoever finishes first should be chapions, and more needs to be made out of it. I just don't like having the playoff system, as you don't need to push all the way for first, when you can play on half all year and finfish in the playoffs, then push at the end of the year and become champions.
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| Quote Young Warrior="Young Warrior"I'll put my hands up my first comment was wrong. I think whoever finishes first should be chapions, and more needs to be made out of it. I just don't like having the playoff system, as you don't need to push all the way for first, when you can play on half all year and finfish in the playoffs, then push at the end of the year and become champions.'"
The problem is when Saints were finishing top the league for 4 or 5 seasons on the trot, sometimes we didn,t win the Grand Final. A lot of the older Wigan and Wires fans on this forum said it not about finishing top its the play offs that matter. We seemed to have turned full circle on here in that 1st and 2nd place now matters.
Don,t forget the play off results have now relegated Wire and Wigan down to 3rd and 4th place in Superleague rankings.
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| Quote Young Warrior="Young Warrior"I'll put my hands up my first comment was wrong. I think whoever finishes first should be chapions, and more needs to be made out of it. I just don't like having the playoff system, as you don't need to push all the way for first, when you can play on half all year and finfish in the playoffs, then push at the end of the year and become champions.'"
You still have to be good team to win it.
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| I can't speak for the older generation, however my views aren't just because Wigan have been knocked down a peg, that doesn't make a difference to me. In the years Saints finished top, but lost the GF etc. they should've been named champions in my eyes.
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| Quote nohalfbacks="nohalfbacks"You still have to be good team to win it.'"
I'm well aware, and Saints outplayed us today, as Leeds arguably outplayed Wire yesterday (didn't watch the match, so going off the score and what I heard), however, should Leeds win the GF next year, can they say they are the true champions and best side of the year? In my eyes, no.
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| Wire and Wigan have been the best two all season but then there's the play offs. It may seem odd that 3rd and 5th are at the GF however they won the games where Wire and Wigan didn't. That's the play offs.
What does appear to be happening now is that the club who wins the C Cup do not do well in the play offs. No cup winner has won the GF since the C Cup was moved to Aug Bank Holiday weekend. Wigan are just not the same team since winning the cup. Wire won the C Cup twice then the wheels fell off in the play offs.
The test of this will be to see how Leeds do next week. They, like us, have not had a week off and their 80 mins will be interesting. They were superb last night v Wire I have to admit.
Wire and Wigan might have been the best teams in the leahiue all season. Saints and Leeds have just proved they are the best two teams in the play offs. As many have said, we all knew the rules before we started so we'll continue to go with it.
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| Quote Young Warrior="Young Warrior"I can't speak for the older generation, however my views aren't just because Wigan have been knocked down a peg, that doesn't make a difference to me. In the years Saints finished top, but lost the GF etc. they should've been named champions in my eyes.'"
Too be honest top 8 play off is a farce, 1st place has never deserved the recognition of this achievement. The RFL are basically saying your last 3 play off games has much greater value than the 27 league games. Top 4 is just about acceptable, can you imagine the day when an 8th place team who has lot 3 times as many games as the league leaders will become Superleague Champions.
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| Quote Judder Man="Judder Man"Too be honest top 8 play off is a farce, 1st place has never deserved the recognition of this achievement. The RFL are basically saying your last 3 play off games has much greater value than the 27 league games. Top 4 is just about acceptable, can you imagine the day when an 8th place team who has lot 3 times as many games as the league leaders will become Superleague Champions.'"
I highly doubt it would ever happen, but it could, which is not right. You should NOT be able to finish in the bottom half of the table, yet get a chance at getting to Old Trafford. I think that's just not right. Top 6 at a push, but I think the playoffs, if anything, should be top four. That way I think we would see more competition at the top. Plus, if you changed it to bottom two relegated, there would be competition at the bottom as well, to ensure you keep your Super League place.
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| Quote Father Ted="Father Ted"Wire and Wigan have been the best two all season but then there's the play offs. It may seem odd that 3rd and 5th are at the GF however they won the games where Wire and Wigan didn't. That's the play offs.
What does appear to be happening now is that the club who wins the C Cup do not do well in the play offs. No cup winner has won the GF since the C Cup was moved to Aug Bank Holiday weekend. Wigan are just not the same team since winning the cup. Wire won the C Cup twice then the wheels fell off in the play offs.
The test of this will be to see how Leeds do next week. They, like us, have not had a week off and their 80 mins will be interesting. They were superb last night v Wire I have to admit.
Wire and Wigan might have been the best teams in the leahiue all season. Saints and Leeds have just proved they are the best two teams in the play offs. As many have said, we all knew the rules before we started so we'll continue to go with it.'"
Actually Saints beat Huddersfield in the challenge cup on August 26 2006 and then went on to win the league and the grand final against Hull in the same year. For what its worth they also won BBC sports personality team of the year.
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| we all know the rules at the start of the season but i agree the top 8 does not work how about a top 5, the side finishes top goes straight to the final and then 2nd v 5th 3rd v 4th and the winners play to meet the team finishing top although the top side would not play for 3 weeks ! i think the original format was ok but not the last 8
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