Might have something to do with the unnecessary games such as the England v Exiles games and teams havin to back up, and the millennium magic.

It's a pointless tournament. We should be playing tri nations series as GB an have the home nations and other smaller teams as development comps

It's also a massive waste of Money and it's losses are huge!

Exactly , a hard fought tri nations would appeal to me and I imagine many others, I'd also like an ashes series thrown in , a proper one with a tour behind it. I'd love to see Saints play a touring side at our new stadium

I think the will be a lot of test games, exiles games, semi finals being played at OUR new stadium which will help the revenue arcthe stadium and with luck will take the games and money away from the DW football stadium that Wigan rent.

I think the NRL play-offs have had only one blowout this year - ironically the Warriors getting smashed.

Some of these results just add fuel to the view that at any one time in SL there are no more than 3/4 genuinely competitive teams. Oddly this year, had we just had play-offs involving the top 4, one of those sides (Huddersfield) wre way behind the top 3.