Sthelens RLFC wrote:
And what if Chelsea were to win the cup this season? Would the place then go to the runners up which quite conceivably be West Brom, Reading or Crystal Palace.
ATEOTD there are 4 places awarded to the 4 best achieving teams in our countrys league. To start giving a chance to the 7th placed team (which could easily be Liverpool this season) who could finish 25 points behind the team in 4th is daft. If Man City, Tottenham or Villa finish 4th this season they will deserve that spot and there should be no qualms about it.
Maybe it's all just a pre-cursor to a RL/ US-style end of season play-off & Grand Final.
As in RL the final League position would determine home advantage in the play-offs with a final at Wembley (conveniently helps with funds for Wembley too)
Whilst a massive break from tradition it's possibly something Sky may want as part of a renewed (and maybe larger) TV deal.
They (over)hype up matches between 'The Big 4' as it is but imagine what they would do during the play-offs building up to a one-off match at Wembley to win the English title in front of 90,000 fans?
Matches that could be -
United v Liverpool
United v Chelsea
Chelsea v Liverpool
United v City (if they continue to improve)
Chelsea v Arsenal
