: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:18 pm  

leicester_rhino wrote:

I think its a good way to improve teams, and get more players used to high intensity games.

I don't mind the top 8, with the league expanded to 14, but it just seems a little premature. Also, a team can finish in the bottom half of the table and still have a playoff spot??!! What's that rewarding? 'Well done in being one of the poorer teams, here have a playoff spot!' Talk about mixed messages.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:19 pm  

El Diablo wrote:

You missed Bradford v Hull 2005 then?

Is that where Bradford totally thrashed them? Is so a great attacking display by the Bulls.. (even though they cheated that year)

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:21 pm  

Damo-Leeds wrote:

That’s when the real rugby league starts. Although some would argue that it starts when the internationals are on. If you didn’t ban him, AP would argue that real rugby league is minus 3 temperatures on a winters Sunday morning watching grassroots under 9’s

Who ?


PS - It wasn't me

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:26 pm  

Damo-Leeds wrote:

Is that where Bradford totally thrashed them? Is so a great attacking display by the Bulls.. (even though they cheated that year)

Excluding the GF and FE which have their own excitement built in and using a 24 point minimum spread between the sides leaves you with these nail-biters in the play-offs:

17-Sep-99..... SL 4 - QPO..... St Helens 38..... Leeds 14
26-Sep-99..... SL 4 - QSF..... Bradford 40..... St Helens 4
29-Sep-00..... SL 5 - QSF..... Wigan 16..... St Helens 54
30-Sep-00..... SL 5 - ESF..... Bradford 46..... Leeds 12
24-Sep-05..... SL 10 - EPO..... Warrington 6..... Hull 40
01-Oct-05..... SL 10 - ESF..... Bradford 71..... Hull 0
23-Sep-06..... SL 11 - EPO..... Bradford 52..... Salford 6
13-Sep-08..... SL 13 - EPO..... Catalans 46..... Warrington 8
19-Sep-08..... SL 13 - QSF..... St Helens 38..... Leeds 10
20-Sep-08..... SL 13 - ESF..... Catalans 26..... Wigan 50

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:27 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

PS - It wasn't me

Must have been an entity that comes and visits this site now and again then

tvoc wrote:

The play-offs should be confined to those teams that have a chance of winning the title.

Top 2 ususlly, top 3 occasionally, top 4 would be nice sometime.

Not sure I understand the need to have 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th in there at the moment.

Well so far I think we’ve only had one final contested by two teams that did not hold first spot. Surely you can put up the stats from the first grand final (Leeds v Wigan) and up to the modern day of where the grand finalist came from to get to the final. I recon most where reached by first and second.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:35 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Excluding the GF and FE which have their own excitement built in and using a 24 point minimum spread between the sides leaves you with these nail-biters in the play-offs

Either way I’ve really enjoyed the play offs - I must be an easy to please rugby league supporter if I enjoy scores like what you’ve put above. I can see where your coming from now.

tvoc wrote:

23-Sep-06..... SL 11 - EPO..... Bradford 52..... Salford 6

What a sad end to what an excellent season Salford had that year.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:35 pm  

tvoc wrote:

01-Oct-05..... SL 10 - ESF..... Bradford 71...Hull 0
23-Sep-06..... SL 11 - EPO..... Bradford 52.....Salford 6

I bet Bradford haven't rattled up those kind of scores in games, for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if those were the last times they rattled up 50-70 point specials.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:38 pm  

Damo-Leeds wrote:

What a sad end to what an excellent season Salford had that year.

Maybe it was a sign of things to come. Salford are a questionable example of a play-off spot, I mean (just from memory) they lost more games than they won and still had a play-off spot. So should they be in the running for a Grand Final apperance, or even the Super League title? I suppose some may argue it highlights a closer competition and the fact that I'm a 'tard.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:39 pm  

Damo-Leeds wrote:

Well so far I think we’ve only had one final contested by two teams that did not hold first spot. Surely you can put up the stats from the first grand final (Leeds v Wigan) and up to the modern day of where the grand finalist came from to get to the final. I recon most where reached by first and second.

That's my point really.

The entire play-off system has produced 1 V 2 in 9 of 11 GF's to date.

The others were 1 V 3 in 2003 and 2 V 3 in 2005.

What part have 4 through to 8 played so far and if the answer is not a lot, why will this season be any different?

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:42 pm  

tvoc wrote:

That's my point really.

The entire play-off system has produced 1 V 2 in 9 of 11 GF's to date.

The others were 1 V 3 in 2003 and 2 V 3 in 2005.

What part have 4 through to 8 played so far and it the answer is not a lot, why will this season be any different?

I'm sure Stevo has said this will be the closest season yet...