I dunno, Taxi - my beef isn't with the system for Saints going out with two straight losses. My issue with the Macintyre System is that Saints busted their arses for 26 weeks to get first place on the ladder and off the back of one loss in the playoffs they are forced into an away trip to the team that is 6 places lower than them.
It's a glitch in the system.
Basically, you are playing a whole season for home advantage for one game in week one and after that you get home advantage for a solitary victory?? Odd.
The way we were playing, Brisbane could've beaten us at Jubilee, it's the principle of the thing and the integrity of the comp that's the issue...
the reward is that they get the 'easiest' path into the GF
home final
win - straight into GF qualifier
lose - second chance
why should the finals series reward losers?
the point of the finals series is to be winners
BTW
i dont think the dragons choked, they started playing badly before the finals series
they just hit their bad form at the wrong time of year
the doggies?
for a team that had a week off, they looked like they had no energy what so ever
but it wasnt a choke
the parra's defense has been phenomenal for the last 10 weeks
besides the 37-0 drubbing, they havent leaked more than two tries in a game?
i think thats the stat