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<blockquote data-quote="Black Hawk" data-source="post: 1117966" data-attributes="member: 86257"><p>If it has to be an eight-team tournament then it would have better for every team to play each other once, four matches each in February/March and then the remainder in July/August. In that way the season and interest in the Championship is sustained over a longer period, particularly with there being no November internationals this year. I would even have gone so far as to arrange the fixtures so that the four heavyweight teams (Georgia, Romania, Portugal and Spain) played each other in the second set of matches, both to make the final outcome of the competition more exciting and to give the first three countries tougher warm-up games going into the World Cup. It would also mean that the other nations, who are unlikely to be selected as opposition by those sides preparing for France, would have meanigful, competitive fixtures against each other right up until the end of the year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Black Hawk, post: 1117966, member: 86257"] If it has to be an eight-team tournament then it would have better for every team to play each other once, four matches each in February/March and then the remainder in July/August. In that way the season and interest in the Championship is sustained over a longer period, particularly with there being no November internationals this year. I would even have gone so far as to arrange the fixtures so that the four heavyweight teams (Georgia, Romania, Portugal and Spain) played each other in the second set of matches, both to make the final outcome of the competition more exciting and to give the first three countries tougher warm-up games going into the World Cup. It would also mean that the other nations, who are unlikely to be selected as opposition by those sides preparing for France, would have meanigful, competitive fixtures against each other right up until the end of the year. [/QUOTE]
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