Quote Wellsy13="Wellsy13"Depends on how you look at it. Again, it's perceptions. Winning the league and winning the championship are two different things now. At one point in the past, they weren't.'"
To me the playoffs + Grand Final is a re-badged, and highly successfully re-marketed premiership competition. With a far uglier trophy. (Seriously, is it just me that thinks the SL trophy itself is a colossal, unimaginative, tacky eye-sore?)
That being said, I'd be beside myself if Warrington ever won it.
The Luddite in me agrees with the view-point that first past the post is the only fair way to determine who the league champions are. However, it's simply not an arguable point, the word "minor" in the title given to the first past the post team is indicative of how little it really means to the competition organisers and how little they want us the fans to think of it as well.
Those who point to premiership competitions being used in RL to decide the overall champs up until the mid 70s, rather miss the point that this was a situation born from travel difficulties (at the time of course) across the pennines and so was very similar in effect to how the yanks pull together the winners from various regionally separated divisions to contest the super bowl. We have no such travel difficulties these days.
I would even guess that if the BBC ever did get rights to the Grand Final, viewing figures would be higher then the CC Final.
