Sky brought it in to take away the gloss of the CC, as Sky couldn't screen the Challenge Cup final.
They were pumping all this money into RL, yet they didn't get to screen RL's biggest game?
They soon sorted that out, and they got away with it cos a playoff was used to decide champions for years in British RL, but that was because of a almost completely uneven fixture list. Today it is one MW game away from being completely even.
Even when we had a 12 team comp, and some clubs played some teams twice, others 3 times, and thier derby rivals 4 times in a season, thier was a perfectly good reason for playoffs, but not now - it simply makes sense that the team finishing top is the best and therefore champions.
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