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Cheetahs and Kings booted from pro 14
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 1003852" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>16 is a very good number of teams to implement a two conference system and maintain national fixtures. </p><p></p><p>Play the 7 teams in your conference twice, 14 games, and inter-conference "derby"* games once or twice, 2/4 fixtures. Maintaining the current playoff system it's a max of 21 games which is a manageable number. I think any bigger becomes a player welfare issue, so I wouldn't be surprised if SARU only wanted 4 teams too. An odd numbered tournament was never going to happen with a two conference system. </p><p></p><p>*Group the Italians & Scots together here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 1003852, member: 45598"] 16 is a very good number of teams to implement a two conference system and maintain national fixtures. Play the 7 teams in your conference twice, 14 games, and inter-conference "derby"* games once or twice, 2/4 fixtures. Maintaining the current playoff system it's a max of 21 games which is a manageable number. I think any bigger becomes a player welfare issue, so I wouldn't be surprised if SARU only wanted 4 teams too. An odd numbered tournament was never going to happen with a two conference system. *Group the Italians & Scots together here. [/QUOTE]
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