top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:28 am  

there could be a shock who reaches the play offs, you never know who could get in and drop out. contenders for top 8 are:

Giants - realistically will get in
FC - same for fc
KR
Bulls
Wakey
Reds

views, who will make it?

My heart says bulls but my head says kr

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:45 am  

It's going to be between Bulls and KR for the 8th spot games left

Bulls- Hudd A, Hull H, Catalan A

KR- Wakey H Wigan A, London A

Bradford can win all them games with the way they have been going Catalan away is a tough ask

KR Wigan away is a loss other 2 are turn up and win

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:12 am  

Wakefield play Saints, Widnes, Hull KR and Salford. Even if we loose against Saints, we can still get 3 wins so why not! Will be tough, but we can dream!

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:23 am  

When Melbourne broke the cap rules in Oz (paying lots of money, for players they COULD afford and NOT leaving local businesses in the mire, by not paying their bills), the punishment from the NRL was swift and harsh - stripped of titles and unable to earn competition points.

When Bradford pay lots of money on players they can't afford, go into administration, leaving many companies (and their employees), in considerable difficulties, what do we do?

The RFL pay for them to keep the squad of players they can't afford and we rejoice in the miracle that they might make the 8, in the face of all that adversity (that's the adversity they have created themselves).

It's perverse!

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 12:50 pm  

dboy wrote:

When Melbourne broke the cap rules in Oz (paying lots of money, for players they COULD afford and NOT leaving local businesses in the mire, by not paying their bills), the punishment from the NRL was swift and harsh - stripped of titles and unable to earn competition points.

When Bradford pay lots of money on players they can't afford, go into administration, leaving many companies (and their employees), in considerable difficulties, what do we do?

The RFL pay for them to keep the squad of players they can't afford and we rejoice in the miracle that they might make the 8, in the face of all that adversity (that's the adversity they have created themselves).

It's perverse!

Slightly different circumstances in that Melbourne dleiberately spent over the cap. Thats actually called cheating. Bradford had appaling management. But don't let facts get in the way, of your rant.

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:58 pm  

Typical one-eyed Bulls response, not wanting to actually read what I put!

It's perverse that a club that CAN afford such players, is heavily (and rightly), penalised, whilst we bend over backwards to help a club who have paid players they CAN'T afford.

It's even more perverse that we then actually PAY their wage bill for them, to allow them to keep those players!

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:21 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Slightly different circumstances in that Melbourne dleiberately spent over the cap. Thats actually called cheating. Bradford had appaling management. But don't let facts get in the way, of your rant.

What a load of crap. Unbelievable. The inquest hasn't even started into what the fook has gone on at flagship license holding Super League club Bradford. To brush it off as simply "appalling management" is laughable. I'd start with that £200k wage bill for a starters . . . .

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:25 pm  

By the way - I hope Bradford do make the top 8 and progress thereafter to the GF - it will show the lunacy and the inequity of a feeble six point deduction for basically dragging the game through the crapper for the last three months. The people running this game need to grow a set of balls.

[Kosh]

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:34 pm  

littlerich wrote:

By the way - I hope Bradford do make the top 8 and progress thereafter to the GF - it will show the lunacy and the inequity of a feeble six point deduction for basically dragging the game through the crapper for the last three months. The people running this game need to grow a set of balls.

I'm guessing that by 'grow a set of balls' you mean 'penalise Bradford beyond the limits allowed by the Operational Rules'.

Yeah - that ought to improve the reputation of RL beyond all measure.

[Kosh]

Re: top 8 : Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:38 pm  

dboy wrote:

Typical one-eyed Bulls response, not wanting to actually read what I put!

It's perverse that a club that CAN afford such players, is heavily (and rightly), penalised, whilst we bend over backwards to help a club who have paid players they CAN'T afford.

It's even more perverse that we then actually PAY their wage bill for them, to allow them to keep those players!

It really isn't. One is a direct punishment for a clear and deliberate breach of regulations, the other is a consequence of bad management. The two rarely have similar penalties in any sport.

Plus we don't even know the final outcome of the situation the Bulls currently reside in. It's still entirely possible that the club will either end up in the Championship or cease to exist at all. Would either of those outcomes sate your desire for blood?