Rogues Gallery wrote:
If ANY team wins it again from 5th then maybe the Superleague will see that playoff system for the farce it is.
In the original 5 team play off system, the 5th place team would have to play 4 (away) games against the 4 teams that finshed above them and beat them all. If a team did that, fair play to them.
I think it was in 1999, Cas finished 5th, beat Wigan in their first game, Leeds (i think) in their second, before going down at St Helens. It was a very exciting time - seeing how far the underdog's could battle.
The thing that really gripes me about the playoffs now, apart from the large number of teams, is that for the past two years, we've played consecutive games against the same team - Wigan in 2011 and Wire in 2012. Its rubbish.