If the next few games go to form except, say, Manly gets up over a depleted Parramatta tomorow, the Tigers reward will be a matchup with the minor premiers and North Queensland, after being thumped by the Tigers, will play Manly.
You could say that's fair because obviously manly will have shown themselves to be the better team, but seriously, who judges form on the result of one week? Except for this McIntyre bloke, of course. What if some appalling ref error costs Parra the game, a bad send off that results in no suspension, for instance?
this system is dreadful, and soon enough it will be shown up as being dreadful. If I wasn't a Tigers fan I'd hope for the above scenario to occur, because in light of the belting that NQ received last night it would show once and for all how patently absurd the current system is.
It's all good and well to say that it always produces exciting results, and so if it's not broke don't fix it, but just because the wheels haven't fallen off yet does not mean they won't. The exciting results we've seen of late have been a result of a high standard, and very even, competition.
Top 6 system, or a top 8 system that keeps the format of the old top 5 (it's possible, it was posted in another thread. You need an extra week, though...), are the way to go in my opinion.
