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<blockquote data-quote="Feicarsinn" data-source="post: 650482" data-attributes="member: 22777"><p>It's an interesting argument. The old ranking system was far too slow to react to change, and as such some teams were 'protected.' Not intentionally, but rather because they'd have some great seasons and build up a lot of points, then become tier one sides and get easier groups making it easier for them to stay in tier one for the foreseeable future even if their standards dropped. Biarritz would be the best example of this.</p><p></p><p>The new system is far more reactionary, which is good. I can understand complaints about it not including European form, but what do you expect from a competition that's trying to distance itself as much as possible from the ERC? In the case of Ulster it wouldn't have made a huge amount of difference anyway. They might have been second seeds instead of third, but that's a minimal enough difference given the standard of the two tiers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feicarsinn, post: 650482, member: 22777"] It's an interesting argument. The old ranking system was far too slow to react to change, and as such some teams were 'protected.' Not intentionally, but rather because they'd have some great seasons and build up a lot of points, then become tier one sides and get easier groups making it easier for them to stay in tier one for the foreseeable future even if their standards dropped. Biarritz would be the best example of this. The new system is far more reactionary, which is good. I can understand complaints about it not including European form, but what do you expect from a competition that's trying to distance itself as much as possible from the ERC? In the case of Ulster it wouldn't have made a huge amount of difference anyway. They might have been second seeds instead of third, but that's a minimal enough difference given the standard of the two tiers. [/QUOTE]
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