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Re: Results at the bottom
DIR By: Brown Bottle
Date: March 29, 2019, 5:43 am
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Last I heard was that there would be relegation this season and
possibly a play-off between last place and Championship winners
after that, which IMHO is effectively ring-fencing anyway,
especially as I believe extending the Premiership to 13 teams is
also on the cards. Has all gone a bit quiet, though.
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Re: Results at the bottom
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: March 29, 2019, 6:10 am
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I can't see any agreement to a play-off between the Championship
winner & 12th Place Premiership team. Exeter are pretty much the
only team who were promoted to the Premiership during the years
when Championship playoffs were in place that managed to kick
on. All the others have tended to yo-yo between the bottom few
places in the Prem & the top of the Championship.
This is partly down to the fact that if you don't know if you're
coming up until the end of the season, it's hard to put together
a team that can compete. Exeter managed it by dint of planning
for the long term & having financial backing that was willing to
pay what was needed.
Before you say "Ah, but look at Us, or Saints, or Bristol this
year", all those teams knew they were promoted well before the
end of the season & could start planning, talent scouting etc
when players were on the market.
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Re: Results at the bottom
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: March 29, 2019, 6:15 am
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How would 2 down and 2 up work? In a Relegation Playoffs system
like at the top of the Prem?
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Re: Results at the bottom
DIR By: Quinky
Date: March 29, 2019, 7:09 am
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Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I suspect these things
don't get decided whilst there is only a risk that the "wrong"
team may be relegated...
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Re: Results at the bottom
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: March 29, 2019, 7:17 am
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The Telegraph is reporting that the RFU have vetoed the idea of
ending Promotion & Relegation. Unfortunately I've used up my one
article a week free subscription so can't read/copy the whole
article...
Link
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