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Possible Changes to Champions Cup in 2022
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 982150" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>Leave the Heino alone, it took 5 years to fix the last mess you made and it's easily the competition with the best format in rugby. </p><p></p><p>I don't like the idea of three team pools at all at all. </p><p></p><p>I actually would be up for home and away semi finals because the tournament currently values how many points you get in your group far too highly, the old format of semis being random draws was better. </p><p></p><p>I don't think you can improve the tournament without dropping to 16 teams and/or adding an extra round. Dropping it from 24 to 20 didn't make much difference in the quality of the competition, drubbings are still common place, teams regularly qualify with a game remaining (or two for the first time ever this season) and the excitement of the final round has dropped if anything because the extra runner up going through makes all the permutations a bit more obvious. I don't think three team pools and bye weeks improve any of these things, it'd probably make most of them worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 982150, member: 45598"] Leave the Heino alone, it took 5 years to fix the last mess you made and it's easily the competition with the best format in rugby. I don't like the idea of three team pools at all at all. I actually would be up for home and away semi finals because the tournament currently values how many points you get in your group far too highly, the old format of semis being random draws was better. I don't think you can improve the tournament without dropping to 16 teams and/or adding an extra round. Dropping it from 24 to 20 didn't make much difference in the quality of the competition, drubbings are still common place, teams regularly qualify with a game remaining (or two for the first time ever this season) and the excitement of the final round has dropped if anything because the extra runner up going through makes all the permutations a bit more obvious. I don't think three team pools and bye weeks improve any of these things, it'd probably make most of them worse. [/QUOTE]
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