Quote ="martinwildbull"The 8s have helped to achieve the objective of strengthening the championship so mid table would be brilliant and any higher a bonus. The 5s were always a great end to the season (once you got your head around who played who when), as posters say it kept interest to the end of the main season, and heavily favoured the "minor superleaguer" team. I doubt any team would want to go straight into the final, a hit out against fifth is better than training ground games for several weeks.'"
This was the basis of my thought that the new system was a farce, since I've never witnessed a system like that (probably too young). Perhaps, on reflection, the word was over zealous. I think a 6 or 8 team playoff would be a better end to the season to be honest. Plenty of games to play, second bites of the cherry for the top performers, and the ones that scrape into the playoffs playing for their lives.
