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Todd Blackadder calls for play-offs to be expanded to Top 6.
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<blockquote data-quote="Fuzzy du Plessis" data-source="post: 904492" data-attributes="member: 76333"><p>I really dislike the playoffs, but if we are to have them I think I'd prefer a 6 team version. After Tigers I usually support the lowest placed team anyway, so this would just provide more opportunities for an underdog win. Extremely difficult to find an extra round in an already crowded calendar though.</p><p></p><p>His reasoning is just ******** though. As long as there is an incentive to finish higher in the league - home SF for the top 2 teams, home QF for 3rd and 4th - then teams will push just as hard as they do now. The only way the top teams will play more youngsters is if finishing 6th is the same as finishing 1st, and even then it would probably only be Saracens or Chiefs confident enough to do so. By that point you have an even further devalued league and a decent amount of disinterested fans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fuzzy du Plessis, post: 904492, member: 76333"] I really dislike the playoffs, but if we are to have them I think I'd prefer a 6 team version. After Tigers I usually support the lowest placed team anyway, so this would just provide more opportunities for an underdog win. Extremely difficult to find an extra round in an already crowded calendar though. His reasoning is just ******** though. As long as there is an incentive to finish higher in the league - home SF for the top 2 teams, home QF for 3rd and 4th - then teams will push just as hard as they do now. The only way the top teams will play more youngsters is if finishing 6th is the same as finishing 1st, and even then it would probably only be Saracens or Chiefs confident enough to do so. By that point you have an even further devalued league and a decent amount of disinterested fans. [/QUOTE]
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