Premiership Play-offs!

I watched the Superbowl last night, seems to have become a tradition I have somehow started, and couldn't help remind myself of my opinion that the Premier League and all domestic leagues across Europe should adapt the Play-off system to determine the national league champions at the end of the season.

Most football fans turn their nose up at this and say it wouldn't work or it wouldn't be fair on the team that finishes top and then may go on to lose.

But who cares?

The most exciting time of the Rugby League season is the Play-offs...the most exciting part of the Football League is the play-offs...the exciting part of the NFL is the play-offs ended with the 'greatest show on earth'!

If you really are the best team in your domestic league then prove it by beating all of your closes rivals in the play-offs.

The Champions League is a cup competition so anyone can drop out at any stage, but does anyone argue that the eventual winner are the best team in Europe for that season? Very, very rarely.

How many times have we all watched the Premier League season end in a damp squib as a team wins the league with 3/4 games to spare? Its horrible. The play-offs take this all away.

The team that finish first can receive a trophy to recognise the feat, just like in the Super League, so it wont be totally ignored. But then lets get down to business as the play-offs begin!

You could have the play-offs with the top 8 team in the league similar to that of the Super League (if you dont understand how those work, look it up).

What this does is give teams a chance of becoming champions even though they don't have the financial muscle of a Man City or the catalogue of advantages Man Utd have. It would also make up for the fact the FA Cup is dead. Nobody cares about it as much as they used to. Sad but true. The showdown at Wembley has lost its spark, but a showdown between the 2 teams fighting it out for the Championship...now that's exciting.

I'll give you an example, if Man Utd win the league this year, then us NUFC fans will look at that and say 'well we took 4 points of them and smashed them 3-0...so what does that make us?'........its a legitimate question that could be answered if the teams faced off again (perhaps) in the play-offs. If this season were to go into the play-offs and NUFC were to beat MUFC in the final...who would say NUFC didn't deserve it? Could MUFC genuinely say they were the better team? I don't think so.

Unfortunately it will never happen, or it wont for a VERY long time, but bring on the play-offs I say!...because if Man City win the league this season after spending a billion quid on players and with 3/4 games to spare, as a football fan, I find this so sad and boring, it almost brings me to tears.

 

a interesting concept. doubt it'll ever happen but it would spice things up for everyone outside of the top 4.

 

I think it should stay the way it is

 

Can we leave at least a small amount of American culture out of our lives please?!

 

I grew up with the system and never want to see it again.

End of the season, Man U/City have 80 points, Arsenal creeps into 4th with 65. Win one game on a debatable penalty and the next on a sending off. Suddenly their the best in the league ? Rubbish.

 

I assumed that the playoff woud only be among the top 4, otherwise we'd need to add a month to the season

 

This!! Next people will be calling to get rid of draws and have a 'shoot out' after every game!!

 

Absolutely **** idea. Why would anyone bother trying to finish 1st when they know they could nick it with a single game and become champions?

Putting in LOADS of effort throughout the entire season, only to undermine all of it by losing the champions title due to a single game in which certain players may have an off day, or dubious ref decisions might be made, would piss a lot of people off. In fact, it completely undermines the whole point of a points and table system.

 

Basically this.

 

Charity shield is the closest we have, either it's first v FA cup winners or first v second. Noone seems to really care that much for it.

 

That would be terrible. It means the team who finishes 6th could win the league. We have cups for that sort of stuff

 

Clubs would start resting players as soon as 4th was guaranteed, they'd have no real incentive not to.

 

No thanks, the way we do it is the best.

 

I can see where you're coming from as it would help prevent just 1/2 teams a per usual fighting it out for the title.

However, there's too many flaws which others have already brought up.

I'd much rather see the FA cup regain its popularity. It's been ****e for years. Ever since the new wembley an I hate how ITV covers it nowadays- was so much better on the BBC

 

Not for me, happy as we are

 

And the team that puts the ball over the bar the most, would win more games.

 

Besides the premier league is going through a period of transition. Look at the top half of the table now compared to just a couple of years ago. Top 4 completely re-jigged (I know there's still around 15 games to go but still!). I don't think spurs will win the PL but their certainly in amongst it. And what's to say we can't pip Chelsea/arsenal/Liverpool to 4th?

It's certainly going to be a climatic run in!

 

sorry but we start doing this then we will start getting rid of promotion and relagation and then lock the leagues under contract for 6 years. super league is a joke, NFL and that thing they call soccer over there is a money making sceme, why would we want to win a league through a play-off, no one would care, i certainly wouldnt.
BS!

 

Repellent concept. It works for the final promotion place because it doesn't affect the championship winners and runners-up, but adds huge excitement and interest for up to half the remaining clubs in the league. The clever thing about the play-offs for final promotion place is that the winning team gains enormous exposure, financial reward and promotion BUT have less time to recover and plan for the forthcoming season. So the rewards are great but the benefit of automatic promotion are stronger still.
I've travelled the USA extensively and like and admire the country greatly, but I don't care for their sport (baseball, gridiron, and 10 pin bowling are a nasty corruption of rounders, rugby and the bowls/petanque/kegelspiel, while basketball is the one sport I really dislike) and the all-pervading dilution of British culture in favour of the more unpleasant aspects of American culture (second-rate whisky and foul lager, revolting fast food, crass commercial music and hiphop, out of town shopping malls, corporate greed, etc) have had, in my opinion, a profoundly negative affect on our nation. So please leave our national sport alone and take your big macs, divas and Budweisers with you.

 

No. No no no no no no no no no.