Super League may end season early and expand play-offs

A meeting of Super League clubs on Monday is set to discuss proposals to end the regular season early and focus on the play-offs.
Liam Farrell in derby actionLiam Farrell in derby action
Liam Farrell in derby action

When the season restarted after lockdown they agreed to switch to a top-four play-offs - two semi-finals - and later switched the Super League table to a win percentage format.

But they are considering making another drastic change, with a decision expected on Monday.

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Warriors coach Adrian Lam said: "We don't know what's around the corner with regard to the draw and the ladder, I guess we'll see on Monday and deal with it."

And Saints boss Kristian Woolf said: "We know there's going to be more disruption with Covid. Before it gets out of hand we need to figure out what we're going to do and, to me, going straight into a finals series makes sense."

Woolf said his Saints will learn from their 18-6 defeat against Wigan.

"I thought we made too many errors in the second half and put ourselves under pressure," he said. "We spent most of the second half coming off our tryline.

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"It was the type of game we were looking forward to, we haven't had that for five or six weeks and we will certainly learn from it and be better next time.

"It was the most intense and most physical game we've played for very long time.

"We didn't play well but we weren't too far off. We'll clean up a couple of things. We're not putting it all on big Al but he does make a difference."