Warrington Wolves • Today's game v Halifax.
NtW wrote:
[url][/url]A commonly held misconception. In RL, play-offs decided the champs from before the First World War to 1973, and for the past 19 years.
Rugby union, cricket, basketball, ice hockey, field hockey, netball: all use play-offs to decide their champions. Most British sports fans are familiar with the Super Bowl or baseball's World (sic!) Series.
Association football, and for a relatively short period of its history, RL, are the exception in British sport, not the rule. And even in soccer, play-offs to determine promotion are long established, whilst the top competition in Europe uses a mix of league and knock-out matches (despite its title of Champions League).
A play-off system to determine champions is therefore widely accepted; to suggest otherwise is to mis-understand the true nature of British sport.
Ok i take your point here, i personally still think its wrong and if Wigan or Saints who are currently 17 points adrift of Cas go on to win it i still can not have them as champions.
Statistics: Posted by karetaker — Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:12 pm — Replies 76 — Views 5227