Interesting ideas guys.

The idea with the finals format as it stands is fairness, by only cutting one or 2 teams from finals there is less pressure to field the very best team during the heats and therefore coaches would be more likely to be a little flexible come booking time... at least thats the theory anyway.

By having the fun matches in between league seasons it allows up to 2 weeks per round of finals giving the coaches plenty of time to organise their teams for the elimination bouts.

Having 3 league seasons per year is a lot of work and we would need more volunteer staff to lighten the load of the existing staff (who by the way do a fantastic job!)

I am all for change and if there is enough interest to try it then perhaps we should give it a go. I can put another poll on the front page and see what the members think, perhaps we would get a better indication from everyone as I know a lot of people wont make posts

FireHorse