I know after yesterdays results it will be harder to peg back Saints in the table but after the elemination rounds assuming the top four finished...........





Wigan

Wire

Leeds

Saints



Who would Wigan pick ? Almost certainly Warrington IMO of course ? This would Leave Leeds at home to Saints in the semi.



Only time and form will tell but could yesterdays result have a bigger impact on our season than we think ?

Who's getting a payoff?

Thank you for explaining how the top 8 play-offs don't work.



Perhaps a discussion best left until nearer the time.

Sounds like an under the table deal to me.



I hope not.

Who's on the receiving end of this payoff?

Did they change the name of the Play-offs to payoffs when it became an 8 team contest?

Ok… for those who don’t know how the Payoff system works.



The Team that come top doesn’t have to make any payoff and has the choice of ref for their next game

The 2nd team have the choice of which of the remaining refs.

Third team can chose their ref from the remaining pot OR they can offer a Payoff (sometime referred to as a ‘backhander’) to chose the ref that the 2nd team chose and also allocate another ref of their choosing to team 2 – the ref chosen by the first team is safe.

The team who came forth can then choose any remaining refs OR offer a bigger payoff than team 3 but if they do chose the payoff option they do not know how big a payoff was offered by team 3 so have to try and trump it – failer to offer a bigger payoff will result in having Silverwood.



Simples

Class!

well we know the rfl is on GH's payroll, so it is kind of apt.

Leeds will win every payoff game every year as they have done since the war, for as everyone from every hick town east or west of our city knows, Leeds are the wealthiest, most Jewish, most despised club in the RFL, its just so, it comes with the territory, we poach talented young players from local clubs, we bribe referees, we ARE the RFL, we pay four times the wages that other clubs pay and we offer prostitutes on demand to our rising young stars, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the prostitutes.

Sorry Play offs........................ and these assumptions are after the elimination rounds