They should just be cheaper, £10 ish for the first and second round would generate sellouts, its terrible PR for RL when the stadiums for playoff's are half full.

Who sets the price for playoff tickets, the club or the RFL?

The players had a rest last week.

Wouldn't Saints have the club call if that happened? Surely they'd pick Leeds instead of us and make us face Wire? Unless it doesn't work that way.

Saints can only get club call if both us and Wire lose this weekend.

Correct.

Oh yeah, I read that completely wrong.

I don't think anyone should underestimate the importance of a week off.

Conserves energy
Less likelihood of injury
Less likelihood of suspension
More training time

The play-offs are totally flawed if round 3 is exactly the same as the top two round 1 matches. This is garbage planning.

Yup. Yet more rubbish from the RFL.

Last year when we had the week off we stuttered the week after and lost.

This year we NEED the week off to refresh the bodies (some of which are clearly battered and bruised) ready for two big knockout games.

Come on people since when has any Wigan v Saints game been pointless, id take a win even if its a friendly played at sherdley park. Attendance should be very good i think im sure we`ll come over in numbers, of course a week off is ideal send the others to knock hell out of each other then hammer the winners, whos gona win sunday Wigan of course, we will take on Catalans then back to Wigan, cos Warrington wont have the bottle to play us, Who will win the game in 3 weeks Wigan v Saints Come on we arnt gona go a full season with out beating you.

This, without a doubt. From the wire game the other week it's clear that the 3 extra games from last year in the WCC, cup semi and cup final have caught up with them (though I would definitely take this position every year to be competing in those games in the first place!).

Massive effort needed on Sunday to get the 2nd week off and I'm sure the lads won't disappoint!

Agree.

Last year we'd had enough weeks off to stay fresh on challenge cup weekends and having to play Hull KR in week 2 of the play offs helped us get rid of some rust.

This year we've had no breaks and due to the WCC and the exiles games our lads have had to back up a couple of times. The full squad could do with a week off as a couple look a little jaded.

We really could do with a win on Sunday.

In Australia it's 1 v 8, 2 v 7, etc. I don't know what happens in subsequent rounds but maybe this would be better. It does seem ridiculous that we all know that Wigan will play Saints twice.