I think a lot of people walked out with disgust at the abysmal refereeing, rather than the Wigan performance.

You are not suggesting this is all some sort of master plan are you?



Mess about for half a season, finish 7th or 8th and them mount a challenge for the play-offs?



Given the new play off structure who do you think has best chance of winning the thing, a side who finishes 8th or a side who finished 4th?



The whole point of the league is make your play off fixtures as easy as possible.



There are plenty of reasons to play well and seek good form now. Finishing in the top 4 is one. Pleasing the crowd is another. IL himself acknowledged a big complaint form the fans was boring RL when he was on the Radio Manchester RL hour recently so despite the fact you play naff RL and still get into the play offs, finishing eighth this is not what the majority of fans want. It doesn't matter if technically you can win it from there, people are fed up of the team having poor league seasons and so far this season we are having another poor league season.



What means zip to most fans IMO is you can play poorly and still get into the playoffs. They do not go to games to be bored.



Dave

Noble's view: www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html

Noble's view: www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html

Obviously you dont







You wont be there come september

I'd rather finish bottom knowing we've turned up and put the effort in.



Wigan 'played to the rules' last year and once again fell at the final hurdle, your theory only works if the team are actually good enough to win something at the end of it... We've shown we can play on a couple of occasions but we have a badly coached badly motivated side and we won't win a thing unless we can put a run of good performances together to build some confidence and pride in the squad, Wigan have gone backwards yet again.

Honestly yes, I would because you're a poor team. Let's face with the players Wigan have, they should be a lot higher then one place off a play-off spot. They should be in the top 4 at least.

Wouldn't mind a watch of that of theSuper League Show.

As someone has pointed our earlier, Hudds were awful, Wigan were awful, referee was awful.

the whole thing was rubbish - both teams, the ref, the weather, the atmosphere was as dead as a nit!



the fans are getting so fed up now

Should've made for a classic game then.

Looking at this thread "in the morning" it's easy to see how threads can "rachet up" and, let's say "strong points of view put forward"







I actually think that we both are in agreement as to what we would prefer- a Wigan side playing consistent attractive effective rugby.



The point I am making is that the structure of the competition means we don't have to play well NOW. I agree it's total rubbish. Wigan, imo, SHOULD be penalised for playing poor, however, as long as they finish in the top 8, they won't be.



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I stated this would happen on the predictions thread, and was pilliored for it, all you have to do to beat us is try hard! That is very very worrying