Thank god it's fixed

I don't know, the likes of Hull, Catalans and Hudds previously have offered just as worst. Didn't we expand the playoffs because fans of other teams moaned that the playoffs were quite a closed shop before with the usual suspects always making up the numbers......well new teams got a chance at the playoffs and have continued to blow it in pathetic fashion year upon year.

You're not wrong. The decision to expand the playoffs from 5 to 8 was one of the worst of a terrible set of decisions on the structure of the league over the last few years.

It's made the regular season meaningless for most of the teams because there's no need to work for every game, and it's devalued the playoffs because we have to suffer several low-quality mismatches to prevent any excitement building momentum.

Super League franchising and Top 8 play-off mediocrity by plenty!

Screwing up Rugby League since 2009.

Rugby League: embarrassing itself into extinction.

Don't think this will be the only embarrassing blowout scoreline this play-off round either.

French surrender monkeys have to bend over yet.

Careful now William. You'll have the RFL investigating you using terms like that. Or maybe the ECB...

And Huddersfield's reward for losing 4-57 is?

A home game next week against Leeds.

No wonder Leeds were so keen to finish 6th LOL

Huddersfield should have let St’s have the win last week & played Widnes at home.

Or maybe they were expecting Cas to turn over the French, so they had a trip Darn Lane.

Either way, a very poor effort tonight, but Wigan played extremely well.

They'd have had an easier time of it had they lost to St Helens last week, that's for sure.

In the grand scheme of things, Huddersfield would still be an irrelevance.

I'm just thankful that Wigan exist, otherwise Leeds would be 100% -taking certainties from 6th.

The thing though, had Hudds lost to Saints and finished 5th and had a 'meaningful' game this week against Widnes, I wouldn't bet against them f**king that one up too.

If they manage to win next week, does anybody fancy them to go away in the semis and win (especially if it's against Wigan again) thus highlighting the pointlessness of 'relaxing' this week as they have another chance.

Like I said earlier, Hudds might not be good enough to beat the likes of Wigan and Leeds when it matters and to win the GF......but they're better than what they showed tonight if they applied themselves properly.

All 4 play off matches this weekend have serious potential to be blow outs.Cas could take same attitude as Hudds and look to next week.Cats could fold like a cheap tent(its happened before) if leeds set about them with usual play off intensity and widnes are the side that are just happy to make the 8 before dying with a whimper.

Seriously considering a bet on the rest of the play-off games this round.

A treble on Warrington, Saints and Leeds all to win by 13+ points offers odds of around 9/1.

Think Leeds v cats will be close expecting a very tough game.

Saints by 10
Wire by 18
Leeds by 6

I think Cas will give Saints at least a scare tonight, just got a feeling they will be ready for it.

I think Cats will get splattered by Leeds and Widnes will suffer the same fate at Warrington.

You missed Huddersfield v Hull FC last year then?

i'd say most huddersfield play off performances, that was the norm for them

When was the last time that Leeds beat Huddesrsfield in SL ????
Maybe Shudds have a plan

It was probably the last time they met in the playoffs (2011, 34-2icon_cool.gif so not sure that plan would work

When it really counted.


Handing over the lube in preparation to bending over?

Yep.
And:
2012
Wigan 46 - 6 Catalans
Hull FC 46 - 10 Huddersfield

2011
Warrington 47 - 0 Huddersfield
Catalans 56 - 6 Hull KR
Leeds 42 - 10 Hull FC
Wigan 44 - 0 Catalans

2009
Leeds 44 - 8 Hull KR

2008
Catalans 46 - 8 Warrington

2006
Bradford 52 - 6 Salford

2005
Warrington 6 - 40 Hull FC
Bradford 71 - 0 Hull FC

Plenty of one-sided, very poor performances in the playoffs over the last 10 years.

One down, two to go...

first half was so bad looked like every play of the ball was a knock on but no one from sky made any comment about it at half time they must have known.