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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 783868" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>I don't think so at all, a three match test series is different to a league and a 38 game season is vastly different to a 5 game league. Points difference is a pretty arbitrary way to win anything considering a side goes into a game with the sole objective to win and the system is even worse over a period of five games. If a side can win outright by having more points on the table than the other sides it's well deserved but if a side wins because they managed to run up a big score against Scotland in perfect conditions while the 2nd placed side had to play them in a rainy Murrayfield and didn't seems pretty unfair to me. Winning on PD is purely circumstantial over a short period of time. To compare it to the EPL again, why were City better than United in 2012? They won, drew and lost the same amount of games but City scored more goals, why is 2-0 deemed a better win than 1-0 when both achieved their objective? Not playing everyone home and away makes it even worse. The 6nations is a great but deeply flawed tournament that only truly produces the best side as a winner when the grand slam is won, from an Irish point of view it just shows how rarely we've been the best side. I've seen ideas for four team, 6 game championships with promotion and relegation and think that would be the ideal structure to show us who the best side in a Europe is every year, it'd still be flawed mind you!</p><p></p><p>The structure of the championship is the reason why I still regard the triple crown as a better prize than the championship outright.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 783868, member: 45598"] I don't think so at all, a three match test series is different to a league and a 38 game season is vastly different to a 5 game league. Points difference is a pretty arbitrary way to win anything considering a side goes into a game with the sole objective to win and the system is even worse over a period of five games. If a side can win outright by having more points on the table than the other sides it's well deserved but if a side wins because they managed to run up a big score against Scotland in perfect conditions while the 2nd placed side had to play them in a rainy Murrayfield and didn't seems pretty unfair to me. Winning on PD is purely circumstantial over a short period of time. To compare it to the EPL again, why were City better than United in 2012? They won, drew and lost the same amount of games but City scored more goals, why is 2-0 deemed a better win than 1-0 when both achieved their objective? Not playing everyone home and away makes it even worse. The 6nations is a great but deeply flawed tournament that only truly produces the best side as a winner when the grand slam is won, from an Irish point of view it just shows how rarely we've been the best side. I've seen ideas for four team, 6 game championships with promotion and relegation and think that would be the ideal structure to show us who the best side in a Europe is every year, it'd still be flawed mind you! The structure of the championship is the reason why I still regard the triple crown as a better prize than the championship outright. [/QUOTE]
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