Yes and promotion and relegation is popular throughout the world as well



There have been several major competitions with more than 1 knock out group stage played on a league basis culminating in 1 final elimination match, so whats different?

no it wasnt, they were promoted through franchising when it began in 2009.



They played in the 2008 championship grand final.

Quote fevfan76="fevfan76"So the positions after those 22 games are sorted alphabetically? population? combined shoe sizes? points accumulated?'" The points are reset to 0. You can sort them at that point in to any order you want its not going to make a difference. Those 8 clubs then restart a new league. Quote fevfan76 Who is this basketcase team that beat us comfortably ??? '" hth www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/match/rl3619046 Quote fevfan76And who is this Part time team you talk of, cant speak for other champ teams but Fev will be full time from 2015.'" you can put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig. You can call Fev's squad full-time if you want. But that isnt a professional squad. Quote fevfan76 If Fev can't break the bottom four of super league so be it at least they may have the opportunity'" Why? why does giving Fev an opportunity to be one of the worst sides in SL supersede the growth and stability of the game as a whole?

Quote fevfan76="fevfan76"So the positions after those 22 games are sorted alphabetically? population? combined shoe sizes? points accumulated?'" The points are reset to 0. You can sort them at that point in to any order you want its not going to make a difference. Those 8 clubs then restart a new league. Quote fevfan76 Who is this basketcase team that beat us comfortably ??? '" hth www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/match/rl3619046 Quote fevfan76And who is this Part time team you talk of, cant speak for other champ teams but Fev will be full time from 2015.'" you can put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig. You can call Fev's squad full-time if you want. But that isnt a professional squad. Quote fevfan76 If Fev can't break the bottom four of super league so be it at least they may have the opportunity'" Why? why does giving Fev an opportunity to be one of the worst sides in SL supersede the growth and stability of the game as a whole?

not really. Yearly P+R in this format or the previous ones used are almost exclusive to European Soccer. Outside that most major sports dont have anything comparable.

like?

You said the Crusaders ( not Celtic ) played in 2009 ,make your mind up?

The biggest team sporting event in the world perhaps?

its at the top of this page you silly banana. You even quoted it





is this where we see you pretend to get confused again?

Lol I mean the 22 games are not irrelevant, they sort out the positions in the league.







Yet still better than many SL teams did against them last season







Getting paid full time to do a job is professional









speculating again, you forgot to put "in your bias opinion"



Whywould Fev being in SL not help the growth of the game - go on real of another load of bull from your mind and speculation. look into your crystal ball you have and tell me our attendance would be crap because were from a hamlet. That we would end up skint and that players such as Hardaker, Burrows and briscoe still wouldn't play for us.

Which one?



The NFL has a league then play off structure, the football world cup has a league then play-off structure, the Champions league has a league then play-off structure, as does the NBA, NHL, NRL, RUWC, RLWC.



The Cricket World cup has a very wierd system that kind of has two leagues parts of it but its universally derided as a pretty crappy system.

Its you who is confused, Celtic Crusaders and the Crusaders are/were 2 different clubs



One cheated by playing players on dodgy VISA s financed by RFL development grants and played in Bridgend



The other went bump playing out of Wrexham and didnt pay loads of its players wages



Roaring success's both wouldnt you say?

The football world cup has 2 group stages played on a league basis, it used to have 3 at one point, the Champions league had 2 also at 1 point