Maybe we should make it 16 teams, then the 8th place would probably be winning as many as losing, thus no longer rewarding mediocrity?!!?

Here's an idea, lets play each other once home and away, whoever wins the most number of games in the season is the champion and if you loose the most you get demoted and give someone in a lower league who's playing really well a chance to step up a gear ..... oh, hang on, I think we've tried that before




Sorry, got an attack of the past ............ it's all the talk of the 'This Sporting Life' showing at the cinema

Well it can only be an attack on the relatively recent past, as in 1960, the year in which 'This Sporting Life' was set then the Rugby League Championship was decided by a 4 team play-off system between the Yorkshire & Lancashire Leagues! Equally, for the overwhelming majority of the 20th Century the Championship winners have been decided by a play-off system & it was only from 1973 until the early years of Super League that the league leaders were crowned champions by virtue of winning the league!

Cheers IA - as a relative new comer to the game (about 1983 ish) I was thinking it had been a 'first past the post' championship race used longer than a playoff system - we live and learn