Can anyone belief how poor all 4 games were attended?
over priced ,sky or is it just a long winded way to get 2 teams to OT?
11,000 at leeds and 8 at wigan were really poor,how many will turn up for the next 2?

bri.

11600 at Leeds according to stats but im sure there was a few more than that, lets see what attendance there is on saturday, im sure they will keep a few back from the taxman

as a Hull fan who's sat through two appalling seasons I'm baffled as to why fans don't want to go watch their clubs playoff fixtures. I'd pay anything to watch a game as exciting as our last playoff game (against Wigan in 2007)

We took more fans to Saints on a friday night in 2006 than Wakefield got at home this weekend!

i'm sure the Rovers fans will turn out in numbers though

Perhaps it's something to do with the fact that apart from Leeds the quality of rugby leading up to and in the play offs has been the worst in SL history.

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Thank god for small mercies that hull ar'nt in it then

Worst then losing 71-0

No, but at least we thrashed an Andrew John's inspired Warrington on their own patch the week before.

That game in 2007 was one of my favourites, great atmosphere!

We had just 2 weeks before beat saints at home to get in the play-offs and then did the comeback against Bradford to win and then came and played at Hull in another great game, memorable times.

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Any more brown nosing??

This thread relates to the 2009 Play Off series. Please explain how that involves you?

maybe because we have real experience of what it takes to win a play-off game

Toughened us up for the next year



Back on topic, I hope there's a good crowd at your place on Sat. Show some of these other teams that play off footie is important

Best get some improvement going then or that experience might get a little foggy in the memory banks.

think he has a valid point considering Bradford, Wigan, Warrington and Hull have all underachieved whilst below average sides like Castleford Wakefield and Catalans have made the play-offs.

This has been a year of poor quality Rugby but I also feel it will be the start of many. There are too many teams and not enough quality players. The over seas pool is being decreased and the teams in SL have increased so it is bound to happen.

This takes nothing away from Rovers though as the top 4 sides have been consistantly the best 4 sides

I'm sure you have tips on how to keep long fading memory's alive for decades

Have they tho', Bradford have been in decline for a few years now and only scraped a play off place last year. Wigan have had a similar season to what they have had over the last few years. Hull have been on a par to how they were last year and warrington have the tag of eternal underachievers (this years cup aside).

I feel the comp has become more level overall, there were some poor games over the weekend but I wonder how much of that had to do with the format of games rather than the teams in it. Both us and Hudds had very different teams playing than would have played had it been knock out rugby and the atmosphere had the feel of a not do or die tie.

Saints aren't the team they were but still have the belief and quality to win games, Leeds look a cut above and likely to win it, but is that much different to previous years.

Surely if the comp had 'got easier' then teams such as Wigan and Wire who seem to covet the talent in the game would have come through and won it at a canter.

I never said it got easier I said the rugby has got worse. Teams have leveled out because the better sides are getting worse aswell as the lesser sides getting better.

The best sides now are the ones that can maintain form, because you have a quality coach you are a quality side. If you had agar you would be as equally rubbish

I think the defences have got better, but that's made it a worse spectacle.

a grueling, low scoring, low penalty game may be technically good. But fans want to see players intercepting balls, playing knocking on under pressure, throwing outlandish passes out wide in desperation because theres 5mins left etc

I don't think the playoff format can be blamed though, Wakefield-Catalan and Wigan-Cas were hardly thrilling and they were under the same format at the old playoffs (just involving teams 5th-8th instead of 3rd-6th)

In 2009, really?

do you not understand what experience means?

N.B

rubgy has existed for more than 3 years