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Heineken Cup knockout rounds should be over two legs
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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 395538" data-attributes="member: 33219"><p>No. The way to make it fairer is have neutral semi-finals. You earn your seeding for the Quarters by your performance in the Group stages. However, by the time the semis come around it's quite arbitrary.</p><p></p><p>If you made it aggregate over 2 legs, 1) That's another match or two in a clogged up calendar, 2) you lose the excitement, 3) HC games are nearly always close. You could easily get the situation where you win your home leg by a point and lose away by 2 points. In rugby terms (unlike goals in football) there's no real difference between those two results, yet you'd still go out.</p><p></p><p>So for this year, I'd say Leinster vs Toulouse should have been in Cardiff/ London/ Rome/ Edinburgh; Saints vs Perpignan should be in Cardiff/ Rome/ Edinburgh/ Dublin. The final's got to be predetermined anyway, so it's just luck if you make the final when it's being played in your home city.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 395538, member: 33219"] No. The way to make it fairer is have neutral semi-finals. You earn your seeding for the Quarters by your performance in the Group stages. However, by the time the semis come around it's quite arbitrary. If you made it aggregate over 2 legs, 1) That's another match or two in a clogged up calendar, 2) you lose the excitement, 3) HC games are nearly always close. You could easily get the situation where you win your home leg by a point and lose away by 2 points. In rugby terms (unlike goals in football) there's no real difference between those two results, yet you'd still go out. So for this year, I'd say Leinster vs Toulouse should have been in Cardiff/ London/ Rome/ Edinburgh; Saints vs Perpignan should be in Cardiff/ Rome/ Edinburgh/ Dublin. The final's got to be predetermined anyway, so it's just luck if you make the final when it's being played in your home city. [/QUOTE]
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