Re: Restructure Revealed! : Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:50 am  

Ganson's Optician wrote:

I emailed the club a while back when I was looking at the season ticket standing order, they advised that they anticipate the Super 8 Series will be included. I believe Leeds have confirmed their season ticket structure already with the mini series included, I don't think they have upped prices.

There is great potential for selling a Super 8 mini season ticket.

Our season ticket prices (Leeds) have gone up to reflect the new structure. For my seat it is an increase of £36 but for that you get 11 homes games of the regular season and then 4 games of the 'super 8's' (if we finish top 4 in the 'regular season') or 3 games if we finish 5th to 8th so ineffect no increase as we are getting more home games included than is the case now and one extra if you finish top 4

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:46 pm  

1st play 2,3,5,6 home- 4,7,8. away.
2nd play 3,4,6,7 home- 1,5,8. away.
3rd play 4,5,7,8 home-1,2,6 away.
4th play 5,6,8,1 home- 2,3,7 away.
5th play 6,7,2 home- 1,3,4,8 away
6th play 7,8,3 home-1,2,4,5 away
7th play 8,1,4 home- 2,3,5,6 away
8th play 1,2,5 home- 3,4,6,7 away.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:35 am  

It would be our luck that if Wire finished top we'd get away games at both Hull clubs and Catalan!

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:54 pm  

Sorry for the bump....just thought it would be interesting to see how this season would look using the new structure now that the regular season is done. Assuming it will be home then away:

Stains (A) Wigan (H) Hudds (A) Leeds (H) Castleford (A) Catalan (H) Widnes (A)

How's that for a set of fixtures?!

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:40 pm  

Alternatively, we'd be in the top four stage by now and... well sorry lads, we'd be out already.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:19 pm  

I'm so excited for this next year, every game really will matter! Imagine if our last game was v Widnes to decide which of us went to the knock out stage!

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Wed Sep 17, 2014 12:28 am  

I'm sure the club are having more season tickets printed on the strength of the new format.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:51 am  

I think this is much needed and will be great!

When it sunk home that you don't have to finish up the top during the regular season (and when you do, you don't particularly earn that much more money and fans of other clubs are constantly saying "it means nothing" if you win the LLS), it really has dropped a level.

Sky have made this sport a one game sport. They put so much emphasis on the Grand Final that they've made it feel like that's the only big game of the season. They ignore the Challenge Cup too which devalues that competition. They barely mention it, just because they don't really show live games (the odd one) or have the final; the BBC don't show Super League games but have a highlights show on it.

There may be other factors too like the lack of decent Aussie quality coming over and more of our top quality leaving to play there or in Union, refs letting teams get away with lying on in big games just because that's what happens in State of Origin which I think doesn't work for our games (even though it does in SoO, as strange and hard to explain as that is), the lack of biff and the total overreaction when it does happen ...but I do feel we've gone a bit stale as a sport.

These changes will be great! I think this will give this sport a kick up the booty it needs. The new World Club Challenge format will be fanstastic for the sport as a worldwide entity too. I think the Aussies will have some decent sponsors involved in that too.

We need this sport to grow. Not just in this country but in other counties around the world too. Let's hope this is a kick start to that happening!

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:18 am  

The main problem with any WCC is that teams are coming into it cold ,straight from pre season with probably a very different team to the one that qualified them to take part.
I would think a better way would be to put the emphasis on top of the table being champions ,top four from here & down under in the WCC & remainder of SL teams to play off for a sky end of season trophy ,final at OT.That would still produce some good competitive matches.

Re: Restructure Revealed! : Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:22 am  

So, I think I'm with it.

Can (and how many, if so) any League 1 teams be promoted into the Championship? and conversely, can (and how many, if so) any Championship clubs be relegated into League 1?