The Play Offs 2019

[sentoffagain2 511]

  Lets face it any Final played on one of the teams home ground is just not fair.

[leytherz 46]

6 hours ago, Gareth hock said:

Still no reply shame .

i was going to reply at the end of the season when you will be in 6th place.(toronto.york.toulouse) still to play yet.

[The Blues Ox 796]

8 hours ago, sentoffagain2 said:

  Lets face it any Final played on one of the teams home ground is just not fair.

Winning the league and not getting automatically promoted is not fair either. The top team should get all the advantages they can because they have earnt it through the season.

[Robin Evans 1,961]

9 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

Winning the league and not getting automatically promoted is not fair either. The top team should get all the advantages they can because they have earnt it through the season.

Yes

[Fev1983 110]

My prediction looking at the rest of the fixtures.

2) Fev v 3) Leigh

4) Toulouse  v 5) Bradford

#UTR

 

[Monkeymagic22 291]

My predictions of the finishing order is:

1 Toronto

2 Leigh

3 Fev

4 Toulouse 

5 Bradford

York look to have a really difficult set of fixtures to finish the season, whilst I have us losing 2 more matches. Very tight though.

 

[POR 369]

1 hour ago, Monkeymagic22 said:

My predictions of the finishing order is:

1 Toronto

2 Leigh

3 Fev

4 Toulouse 

5 Bradford

York look to have a really difficult set of fixtures to finish the season, whilst I have us losing 2 more matches. Very tight though.

 

so that's toronto plus one

which one?  could it be high flying york or toulouse  will it be heavy woolen misery will dewsbury get the double or running up the hill at the mount be our downfall swinton's have won a couple and  rochdale due a big win  so who are your favourites  to get the second win 

[Les Tonks Sidestep 1,323]

11 hours ago, sentoffagain2 said:

  Lets face it any Final played on one of the teams home ground is just not fair.

That include last year's Shield final?

[Monkeymagic22 291]

6 minutes ago, POR said:

so that's toronto plus one

which one?  could it be high flying york or toulouse  will it be heavy woolen misery will dewsbury get the double or running up the hill at the mount be our downfall swinton's have won a couple and  rochdale due a big win  so who are your favourites  to get the second win 

It could be any, given the shock losses we already have. I just think it’s likely Toronto plus one of the other matches.

[Blind side johnny 5,029]

18 hours ago, sentoffagain2 said:

  Lets face it any Final played on one of the teams home ground is just not fair.

POR it is then!

[Blind side johnny 5,029]

7 hours ago, POR said:

so that's toronto plus one

which one?  could it be high flying york or toulouse  will it be heavy woolen misery will dewsbury get the double or running up the hill at the mount be our downfall swinton's have won a couple and  rochdale due a big win  so who are your favourites  to get the second win 

Do you actually believe that Rochdale are due a "big win"?

[POR 369]

16 minutes ago, Blind side johnny said:

Do you actually believe that Rochdale are due a "big win"?

YES round 23 Batley at home 

[sentoffagain2 511]

23 hours ago, Les Tonks Sidestep said:

That include last year's Shield final?

My memory may be playing tricks on me but didn't Leeds win the Yorkshire Cup at Headingley.

Edited July 9 by sentoffagain2
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[Monkeymagic22 291]

The issue with having the Grand Final in Toronto is the difficulty for away fans attending and then the disadvantage for their opponents in having to travel. Personally I’d have the final at Warrington, like he used to be when we kept losing in it.

[marklaspalmas 1,267]

18 hours ago, sentoffagain2 said:

My memory may be playing tricks on me but didn't Leeds win the Yorkshire Cup at Headingley.

Correct. That was a 'sponsorship' issue apparently, and was a big thing at the time. Leeds benefitting big time from the RFL's decision, who'd believe it?

[The Phantom Horseman 1,669]

The issue here is obviously the timing. There's definitely an argument to be had for having it at a neutral venue, but it shouldn't be decided three quarters of the way through the season.

Can you imagine the reaction if we were ten points clear at the top and suddenly it was announced there was going to be a meeting to decide if the top seed should host the final? We'd be swamped with threads about the "corrupt RFL blatantly not wanting Fev in SL" etc.

[Gooleboy 543]

57 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said:

Correct. That was a 'sponsorship' issue apparently, and was a big thing at the time. Leeds benefitting big time from the RFL's decision, who'd believe it?

Esso sponsored the Yorkshire Cup at the time and insisted on the Final being at Headingley. I think Leeds won twice whilst  this was the case, one of them was against us. I  think we lost 16 - 12.

[Les Tonks Sidestep 1,323]

On 10/06/2019 at 17:36, The Grinder said:

LTS,

Can you point me at where that is stated, since again I can't see it (not saying it's not there, just that I can't see that statement). Though I can see that it states when and where the teams placed 1-5 in the league start in the playoffs.

Confirmed that ranking = final league position here https://www.totalrl.com/championship-grand-final-to-be-held-at-highest-placed-side-as-rfl-clarify-position/ 

[The Grinder 99]

15 hours ago, Les Tonks Sidestep said:

Confirmed that ranking = final league position here https://www.totalrl.com/championship-grand-final-to-be-held-at-highest-placed-side-as-rfl-clarify-position/ 

LTS,

Thanks for the clarification.

[Gareth hock 152]

On 08/07/2019 at 01:37, leytherz said:

i was going to reply at the end of the season when you will be in 6th place.(toronto.york.toulouse) still to play yet.

How embarrassing

[leytherz 46]

7 hours ago, Gareth hock said:

How embarrassing

i actually think you will beat york next week.see you next season