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A new tournament: "the 4N"
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<blockquote data-quote="scuubasteve" data-source="post: 146451"><p>The promotion relegation playoff is nice thought, but I've never seen it work properly unfortunately. The losing top level team would have played far harder opposition than the winning lower level team, and will nearly always win because of this. Direct promotion/relegation is alot more fair in promoting lower teams upwards.</p><p></p><p>But more importantly, there's is no way that the 6 nations or 3 nations teams would ever allow themselves to give away their lucrative competitions for a promotion/relegation based setup. And they're the stake holders for these tournaments, not the IRB. So I don't see this happening unfortunately.</p><p></p><p>The only way to force your way in is to offer the 6N/3N teams something new and lucrative. Currently Argentina is the only team that could manage to do this at the moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scuubasteve, post: 146451"] The promotion relegation playoff is nice thought, but I've never seen it work properly unfortunately. The losing top level team would have played far harder opposition than the winning lower level team, and will nearly always win because of this. Direct promotion/relegation is alot more fair in promoting lower teams upwards. But more importantly, there's is no way that the 6 nations or 3 nations teams would ever allow themselves to give away their lucrative competitions for a promotion/relegation based setup. And they're the stake holders for these tournaments, not the IRB. So I don't see this happening unfortunately. The only way to force your way in is to offer the 6N/3N teams something new and lucrative. Currently Argentina is the only team that could manage to do this at the moment. [/QUOTE]
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