Wire_85 wrote:
The one issue I have is Leeds would be in this top 5 I agree it would be better but they could still win from 5th which people would still have a problem with it.
You have mentioned teams Leeds should beat to deserve it in a top 5 Wire, Wigan, Saints and Catalan but if they win tonight they will of beaten all but one of them and without being at home.
Which will mean they haven't beaten all of them so there you go! Its not as hard as the top 5. Especially as week one for them is a training game at home against an 8th placed side who in our league given its standards are just poor.
But as I keep saying the top 5 system is not just about making it hard for the 5th based team it is about giving an ever increasing advantage the higher up you finish. That rewards league position thus giving value to the league and the current system does neither.
There will always be a debate as to whether ANY playoff system creates more deserving champions than a 27 round league program. That is the only real philosophical argument in my book but wherever you stand on that I don't think there is much support for the current play off format.
It's got Nigel Woods written all over it with the stupid "club call" idea. Gimmicks before substance is his speciality.