[tb]

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Thu May 06, 2010 12:28 pm  

Sarge wrote:

the NRL (who we copy the play-off system from)

You are aware that we had play-offs before the Australians even had rugby league?

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Thu May 06, 2010 1:09 pm  

tb wrote:

You are aware that we had play-offs before the Australians even had rugby league?

Quite correct. In the early days of Rugby League when travel across the Pennines was a major consideration, most games would be played within the same county with very few being played inter-county. This gave an imbalance of fixtures - look at early tables which contained 30+ teams who only played 30-odd games in season - which was resolved with the use of the play-off system.

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Sun May 09, 2010 4:27 pm  

As i said I am not against the play off system, it's the addition of another random game that I disagree with. What sense does it make to play just one of the other teams three times in the season and play the rest twice and we already have the Callenge cup final plus the Grand Finals to show case the game. At least the teams playing in these have earned their big day out.