If Huddersfield and Wigan get through, who would you want to play and why?

wigan cos they are the lowest in the league table and had the 'pick a team' option not been in place thats who we would have naturally played

Wigan, if only to see how low the Saints attendance figure can sink to.

Huddersfield because I would really like to see Saints and Wign slog it out, and I see both those teams as possible threats to Leeds.

I agree with the previous poster. A Saints v Wigan derby would take a lot out of both teams.

Anyone else fallen asleep yet?

Think im going to put the Saints - Eagles NFL game back on.

I have it on anyway after the 2 pish poor play-off games yeterday I didnt want to risk falling into a coma

Getting a little tasty – think it might boil over if the Tigers don’t put points on the board soon.

Aye but the game has been poor. I gave it til half time. Now im counting down to 9 for the Bucs

Sherwin having a shocker.
McGoldrick up to his usual tricks, Richard Owen & Pat Richards are the respective stars so far.

You can say that again...!!!!

another shocking advert for super league and the new revamped play offs with empty seats galore to accompany the mediocrity. castleford were so poor it was untrue. 4 shocking games so far IMO, lets hope it gets better. it cant get any worse

8k apparently. 4 really bad att's this weekend. Something needs to be learned. Either make the games part of the season ticket or half the prices.

Actually... 4 poor home atts this weekend. 3 good away turn outs from the looks of it.

I think we'll end up with the giants because i think HKR will beat the pies and i reckon the dragons will lose at the giants.
Rhinos v Saints GF!!

here we go again.....the question was who would you prefare to play,
and suddenly saints attendance figures creep in....OBSESSED..

Catalans could beat Huddersfield, Hull KR will beat Wigan if they play like they did tonight. the OP are the ramblings of a t

No matter how many times I look at this new palyoff system I’m really struggling to work out what the advantage is from finishing top.

If the RFL are viewing this as an experiment then it is looking like it’s a failure;

There’s no advantage from finishing top.
It overly complicated and no fekker understands it.
The ‘Club Call’ has the potential of being a poisoned chalice.
Attendances for the first round are poor.

I just hope they put it down to a crackpot idea that didn’t really work and revert to the old six team system.

What is the issue? Last year the team that finished top played at home, we did that! Last year the team that finished top had the easier route to Old Trafford, we got that too. If anything, we gain the club call advantage, so finishing top has an extra advantage.

And it isn't difficult to understand it, my friends 7 year old grandson gets it so clearly it isn't difficult!

Don,t think there is any advantage other than the home game. It could Leeds v Hull KR and Saints v Hudds again when both teams have already beaten the oppostion.
Take Leeds for example beat Hull KR comfortably at 44 - 8 play again in the 3rd round Hull KR beat Leeds 12 - 14 with a controversial penalty, does the "best team" go into the final.

Well I tried to explain the palyoff system to the other members at my weekly MENSA meeting and none of them really grasped the concept.

(Well you started talking bollox first so I thought I’d post utter crap too)

where did i talk bollox?

If the prices were halved, apart from Wigan, all the clubs involved this weekend would lose gate money but I suppose they'd make more on all the ancillary stuff. But at least the grounds would look full.
I was surprised (& I bet the clubs were really disappointed) at the turn-outs at Wakefield & Wigan since both these games were knock-out games unlike ours & Saints.
I find it hard to fathom how you can support your team all season & then not attend when the result is critical.
Watching it on tv just does not compare with being there.

The play offs are perfectly understandable.

Whether the system is any good is open to debate though.

My favourite system remains the original top 5 play offs.

Every position from 1 to 5 was better than finishing the one below. To me that's how it should be.

the standard of the games have been more worrying than the attendances. Where has been the intensity that Eddie and Stevo were banging on about pre game Friday?? In Not one game could you tell it was a play off match IMO!