What can you expect when there are poor teams in their? I mean, teams finishing 6th, 7th and 8th are only average so you can't really expect special games.

Playoff are simply a joke, top 8 is a laugh. The only credible thing about them was that the level of play noticeably went up but if that is going now then their is no point in them. the playoffs are a way to make money yet loads on here are easily fooled in thinking it is the best way to determine a champions. Leeds are the best team, the champions, a couple of one off games don't change that.

Yes, definate gulf btwn the poor season Wigan have had and the poor season Catalans have had.

Yet a lot of the complaints have been about the games between the 1st & 4th team, and the 2nd & 3rd team.

Wrong, the Grand Final winners will be the champions, just as it should be. English RL used playoffs to determine the champion for 70 years before going away from them for some strange reason. Playoffs are the only way to go.

The play-offs are just another way that the RFL has come up with to reward mediocrity. A top four play-off on a knock-out basis has some merit but when HKR and Huddersfield were to be rewarded with a home game the week later for losing, then what do you think their directors were rubbing their hands for?

The matches between 5th placed down to 8th placed were non-events, so let's get back to what it always used to be with 1st plays 4th and 2nd plays 3rd with the two winners going to the Grand Final. Teams have all year to get into the top four just the same as they have to make the top 8 and maybe by making it the top four we might see more teams putting in that extra yard in some league fixtures.