Quote ="griff1998"Big meeting next week about two twelves, three eights, which seems to be looking the favourite.
I follow what happens at the end of each phase of the season and who you play next. What's not so clear is what you're playing for.
How do you win $uperleague 2 ? Presumably, top the table at the end of the twelve club phase. Otherwise, the likely winners of $uperleague 2 will be $uperleague 1 clubs.
If that's so, what are the middle eight playing for ? Just promotion/not being relegated ? Do they just need to finish in the top four or is there some point to finishing first ? If there is, what are they playing for ?
What are the bottom eight playing for ? Just to avoid relegation to Nuclear Wasteland 1 ? The top two or three clubs probably have enough points to do that after the twelve phase so they just need to trundle on for another seven meaningless games. Under the old system they'd still be in with a chance of the Grand Final but, having missed the cut, they're doomed to some third rate competition. Again - are they playing for something ? If so what ? And more pertinently, how will the public view that achievement ?
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Griff,
for the middle tear - why not carry forward the results from the games you have played against the other teams joining you in the middle 8, this would mean that you carry 6 results forward. You then play 8 more games home and away to the 4 teams that join you from the other league. so say it was salford, london, wakey & cas joined by Fev, Eagles, Fax & Leigh in the middle group then for Eagles they would retain the results from the Fev, Fax & Leigh games payed earlier in the year and then play salford, london, wakey & cas home and away.
This would then mean at least all the teams have had equal games same teams home and away the league get resolved based on a "full" 14 game fixture (every other team home and away). Though it does mean one extra game to fit in the season, which is not an easy task, unless we cut down the end of season GF playoffs by a week compaired to the 1st and 3rd group of 8.
For groups 1 & 3 they could either keep zero pts, all pts or only the pts against the teams remaining in their group.
As Duckzilla has expressed and you have in the past the biggest issue is how is the funding to be dealt with.
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