As clear as mud, oh me head hurts



[iWEEK 1:

Friday September 18:

Qualifying Play-Off 1 (QPO1) 1st v 4th (8pm)

Saturday September 19:

Qualifying Play-Off 2 (QPO2) 2nd v 3rd (6pm)

Elimination Play-Off 1 (EPO1) 5th v 8th (8pm)

Sunday September 20:

Elimination Play-Off 2 (EPO2) 6th v 7th (7pm)

WEEK 2:

Friday September 25:

Preliminary Semi-Final 1 (PSF1) (8pm) - Highest ranked QPO loser v lowest ranked EPO winner.

Saturday September 26:

Preliminary Semi-Final 2 (PSF2) (5.30pm) - Lowest ranked QPO loser v highest ranked EPO winner.

WEEK 3:

Friday October 2:

Qualifying Semi-Final 1 (QSF1) (8pm) - Highest ranked QPO winner v Club Call selected PSF winner.

Saturday October 3:

Qualifying Semi-Final 2 (QSF2) (5.30pm) - Lowest ranked QPO winner v Club Call non-selected PSF winner.

WEEK 4:

Saturday October 10:

engage Super League Grand Final (6pm): QSF1 winner v QSF2 winner.

Notes:


The Club that wins each Qualifying Play Off goes straight to Qualifying Semi Final with home advantage.


Highest ranking team which wins a Qualifying Play Off is awarded the Club Call which means it can choose its opponent from the winners of either PSF.


Club Call takes place after Preliminary Semi Finals. The highest ranking team already in the Qualifying Semi Final can chose its opponents from the winners of either the Preliminary Semi Finals. The other Preliminary Semi Final winner plays away in the other Qualifying Semi Final.[/i

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Only problem with those dates is that if we remain 4th and lose against Leeds we can't have a home tie on the 26th due to Town playing Stockport which that indicates!

Is that because we are seen as a lower priority than a regular run of the mill third division football game.

I assume we'd play on the Friday then.

More likely that Football needs more than a weeks notice to change it's fixtures unlike RL!! The play off fixtures are not set in stone as far as i'm aware so as Ponner says if the scenario happened we would play on the friday!! If the RFL insist this game is played on the saturday then the Town game would have an earlier ko on the saturday as this fixture ko's at 5.30 giving an half hour turn round from the football!

Why?

Police.

need more time to arrange to keep the hooligans apart

Rearranging football games plays havoc with the players hairdressers and manicurists appointments.

Quite correct actually! And as it's stockport they do have a few idiots amongst their ranks! It's also in the Football league rules about rearrangements and time constraints!

I do recall though when we could've got a home tie had we beaten Hull that Town were pondering moving their game to an earlier KO so as to allow the Giants to play in the evening, that was at short notice but was discussed as the play offs commenced I think in this case it could happen again!

I really hope we don't face an Wigan esc scenario though where we have to play elsewhere!

First point I'd make albeit a key one is, we as a society seem to be allowing the 'idiots' to dictate what we do and how we do things, quite sad really.

The second point is I understand KD owns 60% of the stadium, unlike Wigan, so would be very surprised we'll get 'turfed out' of our stadium.

I guess being the 'lesser' sport we'll have to bow to the football gods here, lets win our first play off game and it'll be irrelevant

Who's stadium is it?

ask a lot of the town fans... the ones with the blinkers on

I know but ateotd the stadium is ran by the biggest revenue they are unfortunatly prioritised and have the football league to back them up. Will be interesting if Town get a home tie in the first round of the FA cup as we already have a game on that date, oh how those deluded ones will be upset that they can't play on a saturday due to Rugby League!

All this will be immaterial if we manage 3rd or even beat Leeds in the first PO game!

So lets see if I've got this right.
1.After round 27 the bottom 6 teams go on holiday
2. Next week the bottom 2 teams of the top 8 play away to the top 2 teams in the bottom half of the top half of the table,Losers go on holiday.
3 the top 2 of the table play at home to the bottom 2 teams in the top half of the top half of the table.winners have a week off.
4 the losers from the top half of the top half play at home to the winners from the bottom half of the top half of the table.Losers go on holiday.
5The winners from the top half ,who had a week off play with the winners from the games between the losers from the top half & the winners from the games between the teams from the bottom half of the top half of the final league table.The highest 2 teams are at home and the others are away. The highest team left in play whoever they want and the other two fight amongst themselves.After all this Leeds play St Helens at Old Trafford. Then we all go on holiday.
I hope that's cleared it up,
Barry

Yep it's as clear as mud

never mind the mickey mouse super league play offs.. how do the tipping play offs work