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Quote:steve1888
....or have a play off between 2nd bottom in prem and 2nd bottom in championship maybe.
Quote:Osric
Fourteen teams with no movement for at least five years and, preferably, a Yorkshire based team added into the mix ( for the good of the game in the north).
Quote:pa8
If we did away with relegation from the top flight it might mean more patience being shown to younger EQPs and less money wasted on inferior foreign imports such as Fry, Clever, Andy Tuilagi etc etc. There'd be less need to 'fix it now' and, hopefully, more time for the academy to produce.
Quote:Osric
From the last three WCs there have been 8 SH semi finalists (including Argentina twice) and four from the NH. From them France (twice) and England (once) have promotion and relegation.
So 3/12.
As a Scot, it's irrelevant, but for the English fans out there could I suggest that a move to a fixed league might help the national game?
Quote:Money1
I have to say that expanding the prem to 14 and also having promotion/relegation and also bringing back the stupid play-offs but not even between the bottom or top teams is about as close to insanity as you could get while still being allowed to walk the streets.
Quote:limpopo
Quote:Restrictions on stadium size etc should be scrapped too.
One of the principles behind this requirement is safety, both for players who may have suffered serious injury, as well as spectators.
Quote:LeipzigerQuote:limpopo
Quote:Restrictions on stadium size etc should be scrapped too.
One of the principles behind this requirement is safety, both for players who may have suffered serious injury, as well as spectators.
I didn't see any safety issues at any Championship grounds during our season there. If a stadium is safe for the Championship (according to the club's local authority) then surely it's safe for the Premiership too, including Bedford's sloping pitch on which Saracens played a home LV game not too long ago.
Hideo - agree on two-up two-down. By making it more likely that a relegated team will come straight back up, fear of relegation should ease.
Quote:Leipziger
Monkey - why does the higher intensity of the game in the Premiership have an effect, and what does it actually affect? Is a player more likely to be injured severely in a Premiership match if it's played at e.g. Moseley than at Welford Road? Genuine questions, I've never heard anything about this.
Quote:Monkey1
Bristol & Exeter with their moneybags backers now look like being the last teams that will ever make the move......
Quote:Rinkadink
What needs to change is teir two funding.
Would address so many issues.
Quote:Monkey1
Anybody who lives outside of Exeter can see plain as day that Tony Rowe ploughs big money into the club via his company, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, it is the most tax efficient way of doing it. For some bizarre reason, people who live in or near Exeter just won't accept that to be the case. Must be something in the water.