They should just be cheaper, £10 ish for the first and second round would generate sellouts, its terrible PR for RL when the stadiums for playoff's are half full.

Who sets the price for playoff tickets, the club or the RFL?



That's a very tough run in, We need to win this week for me, aswell as the week off doing us a world of good, it could be near impossible if we lose and the results go as i expect.

Finishing top probably will reap its benefits this year looking at how the table has panned out.

The players had a rest last week.

Dont worry....ive had a vision....

Wouldn't Saints have the club call if that happened? Surely they'd pick Leeds instead of us and make us face Wire? Unless it doesn't work that way.

Saints can only get club call if both us and Wire lose this weekend.

Correct.

Oh yeah, I read that completely wrong.

I don't think anyone should underestimate the importance of a week off.

Conserves energy
Less likelihood of injury
Less likelihood of suspension
More training time

The play-offs are totally flawed if round 3 is exactly the same as the top two round 1 matches. This is garbage planning.

Yup. Yet more rubbish from the RFL.

Last year when we had the week off we stuttered the week after and lost.

This year we NEED the week off to refresh the bodies (some of which are clearly battered and bruised) ready for two big knockout games.

Come on people since when has any Wigan v Saints game been pointless, id take a win even if its a friendly played at sherdley park. Attendance should be very good i think im sure we`ll come over in numbers, of course a week off is ideal send the others to knock hell out of each other then hammer the winners, whos gona win sunday Wigan of course, we will take on Catalans then back to Wigan, cos Warrington wont have the bottle to play us, Who will win the game in 3 weeks Wigan v Saints Come on we arnt gona go a full season with out beating you.

This, without a doubt. From the wire game the other week it's clear that the 3 extra games from last year in the WCC, cup semi and cup final have caught up with them (though I would definitely take this position every year to be competing in those games in the first place!).

Massive effort needed on Sunday to get the 2nd week off and I'm sure the lads won't disappoint!

Agree.

Last year we'd had enough weeks off to stay fresh on challenge cup weekends and having to play Hull KR in week 2 of the play offs helped us get rid of some rust.

This year we've had no breaks and due to the WCC and the exiles games our lads have had to back up a couple of times. The full squad could do with a week off as a couple look a little jaded.

We really could do with a win on Sunday.

In Australia it's 1 v 8, 2 v 7, etc. I don't know what happens in subsequent rounds but maybe this would be better. It does seem ridiculous that we all know that Wigan will play Saints twice.

Yep, it's certainly a foregone conclusion you would hammer Catalans if you lose to Saints, given the beatings you dished out in the league fixtures.

Oh.

Ticket sales for the game have started off very well at Saints. The first allocation for the game was sold out by 11a.m. on Monday and another allocation had to be brought over from the DW. Granted the first application may have only been about 1000 or so but if sales continue as they are then we should bring quite a few. When all is said and done the game is Wigan V Saints.

Looking at eticketing theres a hell of alot of ST holders not bought their seats before the deadline. There's around 9K been sold so far for the home stands. That includes any seats that were on general sale. Its hard to judge but I can't see another 10k tickets being sold before Sunday. Ill go for an attendance around 14-15k.

Quote ="Salty"In Australia it's 1 v 8, 2 v 7, etc. I don't know what happens in subsequent rounds but maybe this would be better. It does seem ridiculous that we all know that Wigan will play Saints twice.'" The two highest ranked winners from week 1 advance to the semi finals. The two lowest ranked losers go out. Example: 1 bt 8 2 bt 7 3 bt 6 4 bt 5 1 and 2 would advance to the semi finals, 7 and 8 would be out. 3 would then play 5 and 4 would play 6. Interestingly, if you lose in rd1 although you may get a second bite of the cherry you lose any home advantages you may have earned whereas over here you just play at home the week after. Much better top 8 system than ours. EDIT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntyre_F ... ght_System

Quote ="Salty"In Australia it's 1 v 8, 2 v 7, etc. I don't know what happens in subsequent rounds but maybe this would be better. It does seem ridiculous that we all know that Wigan will play Saints twice.'" The two highest ranked winners from week 1 advance to the semi finals. The two lowest ranked losers go out. Example: 1 bt 8 2 bt 7 3 bt 6 4 bt 5 1 and 2 would advance to the semi finals, 7 and 8 would be out. 3 would then play 5 and 4 would play 6. Interestingly, if you lose in rd1 although you may get a second bite of the cherry you lose any home advantages you may have earned whereas over here you just play at home the week after. Much better top 8 system than ours. EDIT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntyre_F ... ght_System

I didn't say we would hammer Catalans. I don't even think we will hammer Saints even though we have 3 wins and a draw against them this season. History doesn't count but if games go to form we will play Saints twice.

Quote ="Conroy"The two highest ranked winners from week 1 advance to the semi finals. The two lowest ranked losers go out. Example: 1 bt 8 2 bt 7 3 bt 6 4 bt 5 1 and 2 would advance to the semi finals, 7 and 8 would be out. 3 would then play 5 and 4 would play 6. Interestingly, if you lose in rd1 although you may get a second bite of the cherry you lose any home advantages you may have earned whereas over here you just play at home the week after. Much better top 8 system than ours. EDIT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntyre_F ... ght_System'" Yes if the RFL insist with a top 8 system then it should be the same format as the NRL. Fairer to the top teams and also means the same teams dont play each other twice. At times I think the RFL try to be too revolutionary for their own good and have tried to introduce this "club call" to generate a bit more interest, but considering its shoved to a 10 min slot during a weekday on SSN and people generally know who's going where beforehand anyway, I think we should scrap it and bring in the NRL system.

Quote ="Conroy"The two highest ranked winners from week 1 advance to the semi finals. The two lowest ranked losers go out. Example: 1 bt 8 2 bt 7 3 bt 6 4 bt 5 1 and 2 would advance to the semi finals, 7 and 8 would be out. 3 would then play 5 and 4 would play 6. Interestingly, if you lose in rd1 although you may get a second bite of the cherry you lose any home advantages you may have earned whereas over here you just play at home the week after. Much better top 8 system than ours. EDIT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntyre_F ... ght_System'" Yes if the RFL insist with a top 8 system then it should be the same format as the NRL. Fairer to the top teams and also means the same teams dont play each other twice. At times I think the RFL try to be too revolutionary for their own good and have tried to introduce this "club call" to generate a bit more interest, but considering its shoved to a 10 min slot during a weekday on SSN and people generally know who's going where beforehand anyway, I think we should scrap it and bring in the NRL system.

Even the system the Aussie Rules use is preferable to ours.

This is a preferable playoff selection system to ours

Another reason for winning on Sunday, Latics are at home next week which means we'll be at Widnes again if we lose.

I got told this could be the case last week.

Hope not.