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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2016 RBS Six Nations] Round 2: Italy vs. England (14/02/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 783582" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Compensate them if their players are in the international side. Let's face it, the teams likely to be in the play offs are also most likely to make up a large bunch of the internationals. A proper 2 tier 4 nations per tier championship would have 36 games (18 each tier) as opposed to the current of 25 games all in the 6N. It will make a grand slam much harder to achieve, each game should be closer and there is a chance to get revenge in the same year. That's just 1 week longer international window and 1 more game per week to show on TV, hardly a major issue fitting it in. I predict it would be a lot more popular and may actually help Scotland and Italy. It's better to watch a team winning against teams a similar level than losing all the time to better teams. On top of that Romania and Georgia would get much more exposure. I think it could potentially be a huge money spinner. If even a fraction of that goes to the clubs (all nationalities) it will cover any lost club revenue imo.</p><p></p><p>Honestly I can't see many downsides other than people not liking change. I think it would be much better. The only real downside would be saying Scotland and Italy aren't in the top tier but, harsh though it sounds, it is the truth. They aren't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 783582, member: 56232"] Compensate them if their players are in the international side. Let's face it, the teams likely to be in the play offs are also most likely to make up a large bunch of the internationals. A proper 2 tier 4 nations per tier championship would have 36 games (18 each tier) as opposed to the current of 25 games all in the 6N. It will make a grand slam much harder to achieve, each game should be closer and there is a chance to get revenge in the same year. That's just 1 week longer international window and 1 more game per week to show on TV, hardly a major issue fitting it in. I predict it would be a lot more popular and may actually help Scotland and Italy. It's better to watch a team winning against teams a similar level than losing all the time to better teams. On top of that Romania and Georgia would get much more exposure. I think it could potentially be a huge money spinner. If even a fraction of that goes to the clubs (all nationalities) it will cover any lost club revenue imo. Honestly I can't see many downsides other than people not liking change. I think it would be much better. The only real downside would be saying Scotland and Italy aren't in the top tier but, harsh though it sounds, it is the truth. They aren't. [/QUOTE]
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