wire, best team this year

Can't say I'm too bothered who wins. I just hope for a great exhibition on RL without major refereeing controversy, don't think there is too much chance of the latter.



If I had to pick I'd go for wire, it would be a new name on the cup and they finished higher in the league.

Wire simply because a team finishing 5th should never be called champions and to do it 2 years in a row makes a mockery of our sport. That's not knocking Leeds but the idiotic system we have in our game!

Wire all the way. For all the banter, They deserve it and although it will be 12 months endless gloating they would be worthy winners.

Wire, bought my ticket on Monday to watch. The only problem is that it's in the Leeds end

Leeds for this reason but I expect Wire to do it.

Didn't notice Wiggin fans complaining when you got to the GF from 3rd in the table. If your team wants to waste energy in bowling over teams all season only to cock it up when the match really counts for something then so be it. Yep, I bet your 50 point hammering of the Rhinos was a distant memory after last week.

No team who finishes 5th deserves to win it given the way the play off system works but If I thought Leeds winning it form 5th again would finally destroy the credibility of the current format that would be a price worth paying especially if it meant returning to a top 5 system.



Alas the idiots in charge won't see it that way and will continue to bang on as if it is a hard task to win it from 5th. It's not.



So its got to be Wire. Hopefully they will expose Leeds as the mediocre team they are while they are at it.

i think any neutral has got to sway towards Wire in this one, even if they have got the most irratating fans in the league, and the gloating is going to be unbarable, I do think the team deserve it alot more than the Leeds team.

Being a Leeds fan, the answer is obvious.



As a RL fan, then hopefully a Leeds win will result in the changes needed, imo, scrap the 8 team PO system, scrap clubcall, give the team finishing top a bit more than a 10 minute celebration and photo opp with the hubcap!



Quite a few people suggesting a top 5 PO system would be better but people also suggesting you shouldnt be able to be crowned champions finishing 5th. So where do people suggest the line is drawn?



Top 2 straight final?

Top 3 with 1st place straight through and 2nd and 3rd play a semi. But then that would mean 1st getting a week off which isnt always beneficial.



Top 4 for me would be the best option. 1 v 4 & 2 v 3 semi finals. Final a week later. Simples.

I like top 5 with top place going straight through to the final.



2nd v 5th

3rd v 4th



Winners in semi



Semi winners v League winners.

So you feel good calling yourself champions knowing you've done it from 5th and been distinctly average all season but woken up for a few games? Don't be daft. 3rd isn't 5th either is it? And that wasn't under a ridiculous top 8 system. And if I'm not mistaken we were very close something like 1 point in it to 2nd that year you're a long way from the top 2 this year (9 points) it's not an attack on Leeds fair play you've found a flaw in the system and exploited it but its an attack on that flawed system which makes it possible.