Quote ="Charente Red"Don't know about anyone else, but I can see myself getting pretty fed up with this play off system. Maybe its just that we're playing badly and the club seems in a real mess.
One - I'm a bit old school and it just doesn't seem fair - you have a league where you play each other home and away, whoever finishes last is the worst team and should be relegated. But no, to stop meaningless games the bottom 4 go into another league[u with the slate wiped clean[/u. For the Superleague clubs there's nothing to win, only the chance of a big loss, Championship clubs the reverse so I can see why they would like it. But still after all that, if you finish 4th you are one of the 4 strongest teams and should stay up, but no, you have to play again against a team that didn't do as well as you in a one off game where anything could happen.
Two - Trouble is IF we stay up I can probably look forward to the same again next season, I just hope I get some enthusiasm back over the closed season. But even if we were (relatively) successful, that would mean finishing around 8th and looking forward to a run of 7 games against better teams than us to get a weekly walloping to finish the season. That doesn't sound like much fun either.
Normally I don't expect Rovers to win any competitions, I just take one game at a time and any success is a nice bonus. If we lose on a Sunday I'm miserable for the night but by Monday I'm looking forward to the next weekends game, yesterday is forgotten. I just hope I can get that mentality back.'"
Got to agree its great if your in top 4 but its a waste of time for everyone else, they should go with 16 teams in SL one up one down but the chairmen will never agree, there is not enough money from sky due to red hall selling the game to cheap its a disgrace that Union get more than our sport by some way when the second biggest watched sport on sky is super league we get a pittance hence why we are playing some teams 4 and possibly 5 times its a great sport but I honestly think this set up is not working for the majority of the clubs, the bottom 8 qualifiers will be exciting but so is a regular relegation battle there is far to many meaningless games in both the top 8 and bottom 8