Golden Point Hypocrisy

[Damien]

1 minute ago, dboy said:

If this year's GF is a draw, you would prefer a replay?

Just before the WC? Just before the short off-season in a normal year?

Woolfe is in the paper today complaining about too many games.

It's a non-starter.

As I stated in the post you quoted I am equally happy with extra time.

[Damien]

2 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Leigh on a Wednesday evening with coverage on the sportsman obviously! 

Odsal surely.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 minute ago, Damien said:

Odsal surely.

We all know the RFL take great pleasure in making games as difficult to attend as possible so let's not get into the old public transportation debate again... 

[clogdance]

Why don't they have golden point in the championship & league one ? It's never affected my team, so I'm 50/50 on it being used. 

[HullWire]

Golden point for knock out games is fine for me, but no need for it in league league games in my opinion. 

[Scubby]

1 hour ago, Damien said:

Odsal surely.

Field of dreams

[StandOffHalf]

Bin it.

Draws add intrigue to the table. A good, hard, close 80 minutes that ends level should see a sharing of the spoils.

[StandOffHalf]

I think extra time rather than golden point is a really solid suggestion for finals.

Two periods of 10 minutes and played to the end.

[Northern Eel]

14 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I personally don't like it, I think draws and the single point earned from one add another element to the league table, just make the battles for each end of the table more exciting. 

I have suggested in the past that if we have to have it then why not award both teams a point for the draw and the winner of golden point a second point for the win. 

I know where you are coming from, but why should a team who couldn’t win a game in normal time be given the same number of points as other teams who did? You’d have to go to a 3 pt win across the board to convince me. 
 

In the absence of that, extra-time, without golden point. 

[Old Frightful]

20th Feb 2019 : Wigan 22 Hull FC 23 : Golden point the greatest thing since sliced bread and the invention of the wheel.

13th April 2019 : Catalans 30 Hull FC 31 : As above.

6th March 2020 : Wakefield 26 Hull FC 27 : As above.

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31st March 2022 : Wigan 19 Hull FC 18 : Stupid way to end a game, "IT'S NOT FAIR!"

5th June 2022 : Wakefield 19 Hull FC 18 : As above.

Personally speaking, I think a draw would have been a better way to end the last two games.

And, just for good measure, I would much rather the following recent games had ended in a draw :

Hull FC 18 Castleford 46. Wigan 60 Hull FC 0 and Hull FC 16 Leeds 62.

 

 

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

1 hour ago, Old Frightful said:

20th Feb 2019 : Wigan 22 Hull FC 23 : Golden point the greatest thing since sliced bread and the invention of the wheel.

13th April 2019 : Catalans 30 Hull FC 31 : As above.

6th March 2020 : Wakefield 26 Hull FC 27 : As above.

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31st March 2022 : Wigan 19 Hull FC 18 : Stupid way to end a game, "IT'S NOT FAIR!"

5th June 2022 : Wakefield 19 Hull FC 18 : As above.

Personally speaking, I think a draw would have been a better way to end the last two games.

And, just for good measure, I would much rather the following recent games had ended in a draw :

Hull FC 18 Castleford 46. Wigan 60 Hull FC 0 and Hull FC 16 Leeds 62.

 

 

I think that, in the last game you list, OF, Leeds should have got a bonus point for being clever enough to score a points total that matched the number of the 'heartlands' motorway!

[The Blues Ox]

12 hours ago, clogdance said:

Why don't they have golden point in the championship & league one ? It's never affected my team, so I'm 50/50 on it being used. 

It wouldn't be RL if we were all playing to the same rules. I vote to bring back the bonus point.

[Jughead]

50 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

It wouldn't be RL if we were all playing to the same rules. I vote to bring back the bonus point.

I quite liked that, too. 

[meast]

17 hours ago, Jughead said:

If we don’t like “desperate drop goal contests” or “games decided by the toss of a coin”, which are arguments I’ve heard against the use of Golden Point, why would we settle such huge events like finals with these kind of poor ideas? 

 

Knockout games that requires a result are different to regular season round games, they don't need a winner.

[Jughead]

7 minutes ago, meast said:

Knockout games that requires a result are different to regular season round games, they don't need a winner.

That’s not the point of what I’m asking. If golden point is a “dreadful drop goal contest” or “decided by the flip of a coin” why would we decide major events with something described as “dreadful” or decided not on sporting merit but the flip of a coin? Surely, we would want major finals decided by something less dreadful or by chance?