pretty much.. highest place loser (1v4, 2v3) plays lowest place winner IIRC (5v8, 6v7)

That can't happen. If you win on Friday you are guaranteed a home semi-final in week three. The only team you couldn't play is the winner of the first (only?) Wigan Leeds game as they would also have a home semi-final.

This is being made much more complicated than it has to be!

It really isn't that difficult and it is really only the club call bit that complicates things.



Week 1 of the playoffs means home advantage for the highest placed finishers, and week 2 also means home advantage for the highest placed finishers.

However, after week 2 the only advantage for highest placed finisher is the club call choice.



Week 3 is not concerned at all about where you finished in the league.

The winners from week 1 both have home advantage against the winners of week 3 whoever that may be.



So basically if Warrington win tomorrow night, then they have guaranteed home advantage in week 3, whoever they play.



Here is an excerpt of the week 3 scenario:



Week 3

Two matches again, losers eliminated from each, winners go through to contest the Grand Final.

Qualifying Semi-Final One Highest ranked QPO Winner v Club Call selected PSF winner

Qualifying Semi-Final Two Second ranked QPO Winner v Club Call Non Selected PSF Winner

Prior to week three the highest placedwinners from week one in the competition will announce whom they have chosen to play. They will choose from the two week two winners. The other two teams left in the competition will face off in the other semi-final, again with the highest placed side having home advantage. The winners will meet in the final at Old Trafford. Read more at Suite101: New Playoff Format for Rugby League in 2009: Dramatic change to Super League Playoffs set to be announced by RFL www.suite101.com/content/super-l ... z0z21OgKFb

Prior to week three the highest placedwinners from week one in the competition will announce whom they have chosen to play. They will choose from the two week two winners. The other two teams left in the competition will face off in the other semi-final, again with the highest placed side having home advantage. The winners will meet in the final at Old Trafford. Read more at Suite101: New Playoff Format for Rugby League in 2009: Dramatic change to Super League Playoffs set to be announced by RFL www.suite101.com/content/super-l ... z0z21OgKFb

wandering wire,



That is the 2009 playoff rules.

Right, so you gave me a tenner...



If we lose on Friday, and we make the semis, we are away.

If we win on Friday, we are in the semis, and are at home.



Clubcall only becomes ours if we win and Wigan lose to Leeds.

wasnt aware they had changed???



Although i do agree with the winners from week 1 getting home advantage. Otherwise the only insentive to win is a week off. Home advantage in the semi is much more prized than a week off imo!!!

Completely Correct





Win tomorrow first then be guaranteed to be at home for the Grand Final decider



Cannot get this apathy of some about not winning.



Wouldn't you rather win then have to go back to KR hell hole, and even that's assuming we beat Hull or HKR at home

its all too confusing, can someone just send me a text in 2 weeks if i have to buy a grand final ticket

It really isnt confusing at all..

It has to be the winner's from week one at home in week three and there's a very good reason for that - money.



If you go away in week one and win, thus not having to play at home in week two, and then have to go away again you do not have a home play off game at all despite being in the top four and reaching the semi final. That is in effect a punishment for success because the teams finishing fifth and sixth in the league DO have a home play off game and the additional revenue that brings.



I know gate receipts from the play offs are split but there is still additional revenue to be made from home games - merchandise sales, programmes, food and drink etc etc etc. Why financially reward the fifth and sixth placed teams for relative failure (by comparison with those above them) and potentailly punish the third and fourth placed teams for relative success?



Win tomorrow and play at home in week three. End of.

Depends how intelligent you are. Not surprised some on here are struggling.