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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 113289"><p>Personally, the HEC should be a driver for linking the Guinness Premiership with the ML and the French and Italian leagues. <u>Not</u> merging but linking, leave the league structures untouched, leave the teams alone and create a federation of leagues.</p><p></p><p>Ditch the domestic cups for each league and <em>slightly</em> alter the status of the HEC as a European Cup to a European Playoff championship. Set a quota of four slots in each league for qualification, synchronise the seasons so that they all end at exactly the same point and then start the playoffs and then let the playoffs begin!</p><p></p><p>True, that would mean that not all Irish and Welsh teams would get in, it could mean that all four Irish teams but no Welsh or Scottish teams getting in. Tough. Thats the league you wanted, live with the consequences. Scotland can only get one team into the HEC but you don't see them complaining, life is a *****, then the EU funding runs out and you die. </p><p></p><p>Essentially like the NHL and the playoffs there. Sod regionalism or dumping Guinness Premiership clubs down to the First Division, its too complicated and will destroy trust between fans and Club let alone fans and Union.</p><p></p><p>Its far easier and simpler to just create a federation of leagues, leave those leagues unchanged and make the HEC a yearly playoff tournament. Now that would make Europe even more exciting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 113289"] Personally, the HEC should be a driver for linking the Guinness Premiership with the ML and the French and Italian leagues. [u]Not[/u] merging but linking, leave the league structures untouched, leave the teams alone and create a federation of leagues. Ditch the domestic cups for each league and [i]slightly[/i] alter the status of the HEC as a European Cup to a European Playoff championship. Set a quota of four slots in each league for qualification, synchronise the seasons so that they all end at exactly the same point and then start the playoffs and then let the playoffs begin! True, that would mean that not all Irish and Welsh teams would get in, it could mean that all four Irish teams but no Welsh or Scottish teams getting in. Tough. Thats the league you wanted, live with the consequences. Scotland can only get one team into the HEC but you don't see them complaining, life is a *****, then the EU funding runs out and you die. Essentially like the NHL and the playoffs there. Sod regionalism or dumping Guinness Premiership clubs down to the First Division, its too complicated and will destroy trust between fans and Club let alone fans and Union. Its far easier and simpler to just create a federation of leagues, leave those leagues unchanged and make the HEC a yearly playoff tournament. Now that would make Europe even more exciting. [/QUOTE]
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