2019 Super League

[deluded pom?]

Is it right that after a few injuries FC trotted out a long retired player close to the Old Age Pension.

Ellis? He’s been playing for the last six or seven weeks. If they can fit him under the SC where’s the problem if both club and player are OK with it?

 

[Shark62]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/47948332
St. Helens 62 Hull FC 6 ugh

 

[Shark62]

Warrington 54 Hull KR 6
Huddersfield 24 London 19
Wakefield 26 Leeds 24
Catalans 37 Castleford 16

 

[Shark62]

Salford 26 Wigan 30

 

[adamkungl]

Hard to see how London get out of relegation now. 0/2 against Huddersfield and losses to Hull KR and Salford. These are the games they needed to win.

 

[Perth Red]

Well that weekend didn't do our points difference much good! Massive game against Leeds coming up but we are down to one fit prop. Sheens better have a new game plan!

 

[deluded pom?]

How do you go from putting fifty on Rovers to conceding sixty to Saints in three days?

 

[adamkungl]

How do you go from putting fifty on Rovers to conceding sixty to Saints in three days?

Does that make Saints 110 pts better than Rovers?

Maybe there's hope for London after all

 

[Walter sobchak]

How do you go from putting fifty on Rovers to conceding sixty to Saints in three days?

Playing 2 games in a short space of time doesn’t help.

 

[Perth Red]

How do you go from putting fifty on Rovers to conceding sixty to Saints in three days?

We softened them up for the Saints

 

[deluded pom?]

Playing 2 games in a short space of time doesn’t help.

That goes for both teams though. Not just Hull.

 

[Walter sobchak]

That goes for both teams though. Not just Hull.

Of course but hull fc are shit under radford.

 

[adamkungl]

Leeds and Wigan slowly but surely making their way off the bottom. Wouldn't surprise me if Wigan scrape their way to 5th by the end of the year. Castleford, Catalans, Wakefield, Salford, Hull, none of them will be too certain of their position until the very end.
Catalans keep threatening to live up to their roster quality but always follow up any hope with an utterly dismal game.
St Helens and Warrington streets ahead of the rest.

Relegation battle looks down to London and KR. Huddersfield and Salford seem to have enough in them to avoid the bottom barring some kind of crisis.

 

[Perth Red]

Another shocking first half (down 22-0) at least we rallied a bit in second half to avoid our third drubbing in a row. Our only hope to avoid relegation is London keep losing!

 

[deluded pom?]

Come on London.

 

[Perth Red]

Wigan squeak it. Phew.

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

London has one faint ray of hope: that Super League decides to expand to 14 in 2020, and adds Toronto and Toulouse, with no existing Super League club being dropped. That would be the best outcome for the future appeal of Super League, because the competition needs a club from London, as well as Toronto and Toulouse.

I prefer licencing as a rational business model for rugby league anyway. But if they still want to revert to promotion and relegation in 2020 season, Salford is likely to be the one to drop, since Salford is going to going to lose Robert Lui (Hull KR) and Jackson Hastings (Wigan) at the end of this season.

Whatever the decision on licencing vs promotion and relegation, Super League should leave open the possibility of future enlargement to 16, with New York and Ottawa being added within 3-5 years..

 

[Storm13]

London get the victory over Wakefield to out them on even points with Hull KR and Leeds. Also Hull FC beat Warrington.

 

[Walter sobchak]

London get the victory over Wakefield to out them on even points with Hull KR and Leeds. Also Hull FC beat Warrington.

I’m hoping Leeds finish bottom forcing the RFL to scrap relegation and expand to 14 teams next year.

 

[deluded pom?]

I’m hoping Leeds finish bottom forcing the RFL to scrap relegation and expand to 14 teams next year.

I’m hoping Leeds finish bottom and SL stay at twelve teams. BTW Walter it won’t be a RFL decision to expand SL.