Quote ="Dougy"We'll agree to disagree Smokey!
I believe a league with everything balanced is the fairest way to decide a champion and you don't.'"
and as i say, you are fine to believe that. Its a personal preference. Im just saying that what we are doing right now is the most common way of doing things in rugby.
Quote The irony is my OP wasn't to scrap the playoffs but merely reduce the competing teams that qualify to increase the standard of the regular season that I am finding increasingly meaningless.'"
And to re-iterate my response to this. I can understand why it can feel meaningless, but that is down to the disparity between top and bottom, not the number of teams in the play-offs.
If right now there was say 6 points between Wigan in 1st and Widnes in 11th, rather than 14 points, I don’t think this argument would be happening.