That's a garbage statement, if Halifax hadn't been successful with any of those late penalties they could well have lost the game and had to settle for the bonus themselves. Sometimes you have to just shut a game down, it's about winning close games, not performance.

agree that got to close games down. my thoughts were that the going for goal also stopped the fluency of the fax attack when going for goal three times one after another. i would have backed them to score from one of them.

If the ball stayed in the hands of the Halifax player carrying it !!!
Our completion rates aren't what they could be and running a penalty can cost us by conceding if losing possession. At least you get the ball back if you kick well enough. How about the pressure getting to the Barra lad who handled Pats's penalty in goal, talk about pressure.

Not forgetting the penalties that gave them that field position in the first place.

Yes but the ref probably missed a lot for both teams and the game flowed as a result.

I simply dont agree with the bonus point if you lose you should get nothing. If its not good enough for Super League it shouldnt be good enough for us

Ha ha! OK you got me! But we gave those penalties away none the less.

Nothing wrong with the old system But I don't think there's anything wrong with this one either. It rewards teams for keeping going to the end (though the bonus point should be only when you get within, say, 6 points). It doesn't reward losing; it rewards consistency. It's here to stay so get used to it.

But only for the lower leagues.

It cant be any good, or it would be now used in Superleague, NRL, and BARLA.

Its time it was scrapped or taken up fully

After this weekend's results, mainly concerning our's and Barra's, any complaints against the bonus point ?

Considering the 2nd half recovery, I reckon we earned our bonus point yesterday.

Scrap it in my opinion just dont like it and like has been said if it was any good it would be used in sl

Well thats cos it,ll cost our team maybe for this season but I still stayed listening till the final whistle yesterday cos I knew it mattered.

Keep it imo and if it costs us tuff.

As I mentioned on a previous, similar debate, sooner or later a team will win 12 - 0 and the losing team will get a bonus point. How stupid will that look, getting a bonus point for being nilled?

Two good defensive teams then?? This is Rugby League not PUFFBALL.

i originally voted a big fat no!

and even after sundays debarcle i still agree. granted we played well in 2nd half! and nearly got all the points, another 5mins who knows, but at half time i was ready for off. just gutted and my point of view is that if you lose [size=150=blueAND WE ARE IN A PURELY RESULTS BUISINESS[/size you should get naff all!

hell wats next the loser of the grand final by 10 points or less recieves 25% of the prize fund???!!!!

When two teams have played the same number of games (12) and one is above the other despite having lost two more and won two less, the failure of the bonus point system is completely and utterly demonstrated.

Agreed mate, its pants and needs binning.
If Sooper Dooper League won't use it why should we?

Some of you lot are stuck that far back in the history of the game you'd have the lads trotting out at Thrum Hall and justify it by saying well it's still better than Salford, Cas & Wakey's grounds and they're in SDL

I really dont see the reason behind your response. Progress is good, but not for progress sake. The progress has to be be good for the game, and the bonus point certainly isnt good for the game, otherwise it would be used in ALL levels of the game, having shown its worth over the past season.

How can anyone justify Sheffield being above Toulouse in the league table?

They've beaten us at our ground this season!!!

Look at the league table and you'll see what I mean.

the old saying tho isnt it.

why fix summat thats not broken?

do you see it in SL or OZ NO!
so why in ours?!!

to give toulouse and gateshead even more chance of gettin to GF!!??

Col but for me I do not see what progress to the game a Bonus Point brings. And if we must have it why not all the Leagues? There are many things that need sorting in our game before we start looking at Bonus Points but the RFL have no interest. The standards of Match Officials for one. The same rules for ALL clubs being another. And there are many more besides. I see no reason why a losing team should get a bonus point. A loser deserves nothing!

Tell me what will, or how we will ever improve match officials ?

Never ever in the history of the game have they had so much support from the governing bodies, the money that SKY has poured into RL at the top tier is obscene, yet it brought the technology of the video ref to judge on contentious try scoring acts, yet they still get them wrong on a regular basis !!!
The guys are fitness tested to decent standards, well paid and supported with in-goal t/j's and all the crap that goes with it, yet the game is played at too quick a pace for both the mind and the body of the officials.

Going back to the BP, my simple answer is that too many fixtures become one-sided affairs and the game comes under the banner of the "entertainment business", it's simple to me, it keeps an interest in the game when teams could withdraw their key players to hold them back for future matches when going behind in games and not attempt to stay within a chance of retrieving something from a fixture.
Why award 3 points for a league match victory, what was wrong with 2 points for a win ?
Why do the home & away team get equal league points for a drawn game when surely the away team deserve more for their efforts ?
Why do NRC semi finals have a home & away team and not play at a neutral venue ?