Re: Restructure Revealed! : Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:53 pm  

Even with these new changes there is the potential of a team finishing top by a mile by means of having to play a really tough season, but going out in play offs and the team finishing fourth winning it.

A lot more credit needs to go to the team who finish top. Not just a crappy shield held up in a subdued celebration.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:07 pm  

latchfordbob wrote:

Even with these new changes there is the potential of a team finishing top by a mile by means of having to play a really tough season, but going out in play offs and the team finishing fourth winning it.

A lot more credit needs to go to the team who finish top. Not just a crappy shield held up in a subdued celebration.

The celebration is no different to when a soccer team wins the season. I actually quite like the shield, it is different however I really like the idea of digging the old Championship trophy out from the Wigan trophy cabinet and using that.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:12 am  

The CC fixtures are confusing me - do they mean that the top eight of SL this year will enter the 2015 CC competition in what is now called the 5th Round but in 2015 will be called the 6th Round (whatever it's called it must be the "round of 16"). Then from 2015 onwards, whoever is in the Super 8 of SL will enter the following year's CC competition in the round of 16?

If it does mean this, a team from lower divisions are only even going to play against a team that is perennially in the top 8 of the SL if they make it to the round of 16. We'll not get any games ending with Wire scoring 80+ points that have kick started a spluttering campaign like in the last few seasons.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:33 am  

This new system is potentially miles more exciting than the current structure ... so well done the RFL. For those who find it complicated I think you are not really trying or you must find the rest of life a complete blur. Yes it's more complex than the current system but it's a doddle to understand ... and I'm not the sharpest tool in the box.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:34 am  

More incentive to finish higher so should be more exciting games, but I'm still not getting this Super 8 idea, can someone enlighten me please?

7 games, 4 home 3 away (vice versa if we finish 5th-8th)
How is it decided which games are home and which are away - what's to stop one of these top 4 teams getting 3 more favourable away games?

Apologies if I'm missing something but I think my brain just exploded.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:48 am  

Ganson's Optician wrote:

The celebration is no different to when a soccer team wins the season.

Really. When Warrington came top of the league for the first time in my life, they had a presentation at the next game. The players didn't overplay it as they knew the bigger prize was still to come. The fans cheered a bit, clapped politely and went home.

When Man Utd won the league for the first time in my life, I've never seen so many people drunk in one place. People where at the ground the night before, the pubs were full for days, people honking their car horns throughout the night.

The two times City have won the league in recent years there has been a full on pitch invasion.

The celebrations between the sports couldn't have been more different.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:59 am  

WazzaWire wrote:

OK, so help me out with this one if I've got it wrong, to win the Superleague next season...

Regular season - Home 11 games, Away 11 games + Magic wknd.
Super 8 - 7 games: positions 1 to 4 play home games against the 5-8, the away games against the rest of the top 4.
Playoff semi final home and away - 1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd.
Grand final.

Correct??

Spot on, and it will be great in my opinion!

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:52 am  

BuckleyStreetWire wrote:

Spot on, and it will be great in my opinion!

As someone pointed out earlier mate this clearly doesn't work, if the top 4 had their home games against 5-8 then it's impossible to play the remaining 3 games away to each other. If the 7 games are decided by a draw or something then fine, but a few teams could end up with a more favourable run to the playoffs. This hasn't been made clear in the announcement of the new structure and is the only problem I can see with it.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Sat Jul 26, 2014 5:04 pm  

There are flaws with the new system and I really think that extra fixture in the 2nd phase of the season should be used for magic but I'm quietly optimistic about it.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:14 pm  

latchfordbob wrote:

Even with these new changes there is the potential of a team finishing top by a mile by means of having to play a really tough season, but going out in play offs and the team finishing fourth winning it.

A lot more credit needs to go to the team who finish top. Not just a crappy shield held up in a subdued celebration.

totally agree..and further more crown them as champs..