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Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: May 18, 2026, 5:00 am
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Will be interesting to see how this pans out. We could see it
being introduced in the Premiership as well...
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: euroquin
Date: May 18, 2026, 5:15 am
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I've long been in favour of the French/Super Rugby system. How
can anyone justify Bristol getting anything out their hammering
on the weekend? It also stops teams switching off in the last
10/20 or so when they have built a lead and scored 4 tries - see
both Sarries and Leicester this weekend as examples.
It would improve Prem defences with a potential benefit to
England in the longer term.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: May 18, 2026, 7:31 am
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Have bonus points really affected the finishing positions, or
actually accomplished much, perhaps just get rid of them
altogether.
Also what do you get for winning the Champ next season, a hamper
or gift vouchers, there are according to the press at least five
champ clubs in talks with investors about ultimately getting
them into the prem.
Actually where teams finish and the points system to achieve
that seem academic, if you want to get to the prem.
The champ will be a bit pointless until the teams that want to
be pro join the prem and the others settle on being a semi pro
league.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: dawson9
Date: May 18, 2026, 8:21 am
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--- Quote from: Rugbycat link ---
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> Also what do you get for winning the Champ next season, a
hamper or gift vouchers, there are according to the press at
least five champ clubs in talks with investors about ultimately
getting them into the prem.
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You get to be the winner of the top league in the RFU pyramid
now the Prem is basically ringfenced. Though tbf as noone has
gone up in half a decade, it was already the case. I'm sure lots
of teams would be very happy to win that and be crowned
champions.
If, as you say, league position is basically irrelevant to
whether you go up, then teams will need to view their on field
performance as a completely different thing to any potential
infrastructure investment to bid for premiership entry.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: never sleep
Date: May 18, 2026, 8:38 am
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--- Quote from: dawson9 link ---
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> You get to be the winner of the top league in the RFU pyramid
now the Prem is basically ringfenced. Though tbf as noone has
gone up in half a decade, it was already the case. I'm sure lots
of teams would be very happy to win that and be crowned
champions.
>
> If, as you say, league position is basically irrelevant to
whether you go up, then teams will need to view their on field
performance as a completely different thing to any potential
infrastructure investment to bid for premiership entry.
>
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Remember - there is demotion from the Champ down to Nat 1.
So - league points are very, very important.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: mrpj1985
Date: May 18, 2026, 9:28 am
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HTML https://www.rugbypass.com/news/how-the-prem-table-would-look-under-the-french-bonus-point-system/
The people at RugbyPass have laid out exactly this.
Interesting changes.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: May 18, 2026, 10:36 am
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--- Quote from: dawson9 link ---
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> You get to be the winner of the top league in the RFU pyramid
now the Prem is basically ringfenced. Though tbf as noone has
gone up in half a decade, it was already the case. I'm sure lots
of teams would be very happy to win that and be crowned
champions.
>
> If, as you say, league position is basically irrelevant to
whether you go up, then teams will need to view their on field
performance as a completely different thing to any potential
infrastructure investment to bid for premiership entry.
>
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So Ealing will win again, as they are massively over funded for
the champ, realistically we should be looking for the fully
professional teams to be in the prem, and the semi pro teams to
be in the champ, so that it is a competition that is played on a
level playing field.
That may take a few years to achieve.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: May 18, 2026, 10:39 am
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--- Quote from: mrpj1985 link ---
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HTML https://www.rugbypass.com/news/how-the-prem-table-would-look-under-the-french-bonus-point-system/
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> The people at RugbyPass have laid out exactly this.
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> Interesting changes.
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But you can’t really extrapolate that as they are playing to the
current rules.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: mrpj1985
Date: May 18, 2026, 11:01 am
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--- Quote from: Rugbycat link ---
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> But you can’t really extrapolate that as they are playing to
the current rules.
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No disagreement here.
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Re: Champ to change Bonus Point system for next season
DIR By: Quinky
Date: May 20, 2026, 12:54 am
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The flip side to this is that if you score seven tries, you may
not get a TBP.
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