Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Rugby League playoffs (as we stand)

In the interests of drinking days and possible nights away I have decided to blog the Super League playoffs as they stand. I will change this as we go into the final games of the season and the standings change (4th edit - Saturday 99). With 1 game now to go I have included what the playoffs look like based on each team winning because of their current position (i.e. 1st would win against 2nd, 2nd would win against 3rd etc.) and also based on what I currently think the table and playoffs will finish like. My rankings are now proved to be wrong as we watch Saints stuffing Leeds, Hull now finish second. Hull now visit Warrington (Sunday) with "nothing to play for".

As we stand then then the current rankins are as follows - 1: St Helens, 2: Hull, 3: Leeds, 4: Bradford, 5: Salford, 6: Warrington. My final prediction at the moment is a little different - 1: St Helens, 2: Leeds, 3: Hull, 4: Bradford, 5: Warrington, 6: Salford.

So at the moment the playoffs fall as follows (I dont know which game is on the Friday or Saturday yet) -

w/e 22nd/23rd of September
Match A - 3rd place V 6th place
As we stand - Leeds V Warrington; My prediction - Hull V Salford (Hull win)
Match B - 4th place V 5th place
As we stand - Bradford V Salford; My prediction - Bradford V Warrington (Bradford win)

w/e 29th/30th of September
Match C - 1st v 2nd place
As we stand - St Helens V Hull; My prediction - St Helens V Leeds (St Helens win)
Match D - winner of A v winner of B
As we stand - Leeds V Bradford; My predicition - Hull V Bradford (Hull win)

w/e 7th/8th of October
Match E - looser of C v winner of D
As we stand - Hull V Leeds; My predicition - Leeds V Hull (Leeds win)

w/e 14th of October
Grand Final, Old Trafford - winner of C v winner of E
As we stand - St Helens V Hull; My prediction - St Helens V Leeds (St Helens win)

Therefore based on the various possibilities we have possible sessions in Hull and maybe in Leeds or Manchester. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks games and dates will become a little clearer.

1 comment:

Super Sub said...

Bloody Hell, you need a good analytical brain to work that one out Jarv.
Personally as a Robin anything other than an FC win is a bonus! (only kidding). Having said that Saints fans anoyed me at the Semi-final and I don't like Bradford so it's Leeds all the way for this tyke.

Ed