Quote: Kosh "Playoffs of one type or another were used from around 1905 to around 1974 IIRC. The Premiership was only in use between 1975 and the creation of SL in 1996.
So that's 21 years for top-of-the-league and a grand total of around 84 years for playoffs.'"
That's correct, however in all of those years teams did not play each other home and away, due to there being too many teams in the league and geographic location of the teams, so the only option in those days was a playoff to decide.
It is now different and the sensible option would be to crown the league leaders champions and then have a championship playoff for the super league cup.