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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 905539" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>No everyone doesn't have an equal chance of qualifying, English and French sides only have to be better than half of the top flight teams in their country who play in the same structure and have the same opportunities to make profits and turn it into success. The Pro14 sides have to be better than at least 5 teams from other countries with different structures that lead to unequal starting positions (The provinces have an obvious advantage due to structure and money - Ulster's worse season in recent history was enough for them to scrape ahead of Treviso.) It's a European competition, it should absolutely be done by country, like Football, Basketball and probably a plethora of other sports. </p><p></p><p>It is clearly a power play by the LNR and PRL against Unions but they* are too stupid to realise that they're putting money in the pockets of a union that is running near to it's capacity, can't offer much in terms of growth, and is only harming them by beating them in the IRFU and taking money away from the union that has the most chance of growth which will aid them in the FIR. We clearly don't agree anyway, I reckon it's cultural more than anything and there's no more left to say!</p><p></p><p></p><p>*Well the PRL anyway because I doubt the LNR care too much, they don't need Europe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 905539, member: 45598"] No everyone doesn't have an equal chance of qualifying, English and French sides only have to be better than half of the top flight teams in their country who play in the same structure and have the same opportunities to make profits and turn it into success. The Pro14 sides have to be better than at least 5 teams from other countries with different structures that lead to unequal starting positions (The provinces have an obvious advantage due to structure and money - Ulster's worse season in recent history was enough for them to scrape ahead of Treviso.) It's a European competition, it should absolutely be done by country, like Football, Basketball and probably a plethora of other sports. It is clearly a power play by the LNR and PRL against Unions but they* are too stupid to realise that they're putting money in the pockets of a union that is running near to it's capacity, can't offer much in terms of growth, and is only harming them by beating them in the IRFU and taking money away from the union that has the most chance of growth which will aid them in the FIR. We clearly don't agree anyway, I reckon it's cultural more than anything and there's no more left to say! *Well the PRL anyway because I doubt the LNR care too much, they don't need Europe. [/QUOTE]
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