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| Quote Barnacle Bill="Barnacle Bill"Regardless of what method has been used for how long, the team which finishes top of the league after everyone has played everyone else home and away has proven themselves to be, over a sustained period of time, better than every other team, and are worthy of being called the champions.
The winner of a post season cup competition involving maybe two or three games and a fraction of the teams in SL is simply the winner of a post season cup competition.
The reason Sky trump up the play offs is a transparent attempt to dislodge the Challenge Cup final as the single most important game in British Rugby League.'"
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Maybe putting the first place team straight into the final would be sufficient reward for finishing top, but the argument against that is they'll be sat twiddling their thumbs and losing match sharpness whilst the others battle it out.
I'd never get rid of the play-offs because it gives (nearly) every SL club something to play for, but I do agree topping the table does not bring the rewards or plaudits the feat deserves.
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The fixture list is uneven, what makes the person finishing top more worthy than the person who wins the playoffs.
BTW I think it's amazing how the Saints fans come up with this after two grand final defeats and the prospect of no silverware this year...
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I can't understand why people think a team should be crowned champions part way through the competition. Do they also think the team that won their semi final match by the largest margin should be declared the challenge cup winners? It makes as much sense.
It would also be crazy to say the champions are a team that failed to win the biggest game in the competition.
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The first poster is Spot on ,the team that finishes top in my eyes are the champs they have been the best team all year ,its only Sky that down grade it and its a dissgrace to call it the Hub Cap ,there is no way a team finishing 8th should be anywhere near been crowned as champions.
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| Quote BOYD2="BOYD2"The first poster is Spot on ,the team that finishes top in my eyes are the champs they have been the best team all year ,its only Sky that down grade it and its a dissgrace to call it the Hub Cap ,there is no way a team finishing 8th should be anywhere near been crowned as champions.'"
Unless they win the competition?
What you fail to realise is that the competition doesn't end at the end of the league stage. Next you'll be saying that the Tour de France should be won by the person who finishes the first stage first, or that the person who wins the qualifying in an F1 race should win the race. Both those are ludicrous, just as ludicrous as thinking the person that heads the league after the league rounds should be champions. |
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| Quote Gazemous="Gazemous"Unless they win the competition?
What you fail to realise is that the competition doesn't end at the end of the league stage. Next you'll be saying that the Tour de France should be won by the person who finishes the first stage first, or that the person who wins the qualifying in an F1 race should win the race. Both those are ludicrous, just as ludicrous as thinking the person that heads the league after the league rounds should be champions.'"
Enough with the ludicrous analogies.
As I suspect you and SBR both know very well, no-one, with the possible exception of Damo in a thread a few weeks ago which bordered on the surreal, is suggesting that the league leaders should be champions this season, or 'under the current rules'.
Rather that the rules should be changed.
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| Quote Tony Soprano="Tony Soprano"How bitter are you.'"
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So how come they dont use this system in Championship 1 ?
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"So how come they dont use this system in Championship 1 ?'"
I don't know, maybe because it's 'two up-two down' and it would nullify the occasion? |
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| Quote Wheels="Wheels"I don't know, maybe because it's 'two up-two down' and :34hkigzwit would nullify the occasion?'"
You mean like the Championship GF where both clubs will have already ' Qualified ' to apply for SL in 2012 when they get to the GF
Effectively making winning the semi final more important than winning the final ?  |
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| Quote mrs cindy russell="mrs cindy russell"The SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP should be given it's own title to show it for what it is. Historically the Champions were always the team that finished top after playing each other home & away, ie they'd finished top after all the fixtures.
After the regular season, came the PREMIERSHIP, since knicked by SKY and renamed as the top 6/8 playoffs, so there is all of the SuperLeague years as history. Nothing when compared to all the history of TGG.
League fans, who know the history remember how to workout who are the true champions before we break off for the close break before we start all over again.
I,too, would like to see the winners of the sl play-offs being given their own name----and maybe even a GRAND FINAL RING as winners of SL last 4/8 - afterall they've nicked stuff from Aussie and Premiership so why not put their heads together and come us with something original!!!!...... grannyfan Cindy'"
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