Quote ="sally cinnamon"Warrington and Wigan but maybe next year it will be Warrington and Saints.
I don't think that Leeds would win the league, if the playoffs were scrapped. Leeds haven't been massively rotating their squad, they have just got into sticky ruts of form because they don't have a strong and consistent enough team at the moment to win consistently through a season.
I did think the top 5 was a better play off system, not because it was 5 teams necessarily but because it avoided the big weakness of both our system and the Aussie one: you end up with a 4 team knock out just like a cup competition, so the reward system being based on having a 'second chance' has the anomaly that you are allowed to lose a playoff game as long as its the first one (like us this year) whereas if you win that first playoff game you then forfeit your right to a second chance (like Saints this year or us in 2011). Quite a few teams in Aus have fallen foul of that over the years.
I would like to see a 10 team Super League with the top 5 playoffs. I think that would be quite a competitive competition.'"
I agree with the 10 team SL and 5 team PO with the league winner going straight through to the final. The only problem is 2 v 5 could be 10-12 pts difference but for team 2 if they lost they'd be out. No second chances. But it would still probably be an improvement on the current system.
10 teams, everyone plays each other three times meaning 27 games. 13 at home, 13 away and 1 magic weekend. Some teams you'll play home twice, others away twice.
But what about relegation/ promotion? Scrap it I guess but it would mean demoting the likes of Widnes (again), Castleford, Wakefield, London, Bradford or Salford? Seems harsh on those teams. But the likes of Bradford and Salford financially suffering, would a drop to 'Super League 2' be the final nail in the coffin?
