No Championship play-offs for three seasons
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No Championship play-offs for three seasons
According to the Aviva site here.
As long as the top team meets the required criteria, it will be automatically promoted. Now all we need to do is get rid of the play-offs in the Premiership.
As long as the top team meets the required criteria, it will be automatically promoted. Now all we need to do is get rid of the play-offs in the Premiership.
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Good decision to scrap play-offs but now I'd have the Championship winners play off against the Premiership bottom Club for a place in the Prem. It could be 'home & away' or a one-off game at a neutral venue.BeeJ wrote:According to the Aviva site here.
As long as the top team meets the required criteria, it will be automatically promoted. Now all we need to do is get rid of the play-offs in the Premiership.
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Play offs are just cash cows, get rid of them all, sorry straw clearer, but what you propose is just ring fencing in disguise. Championship sides do not get Premiership resources so their player squad is smaller and generally less strong.
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For clarity, 3 season trial starts next season.
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An overdue decision. But they won't touch the Prem play offs, quite rightly imo.
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Not strictly correct as Championship sides do not have to adhere to the, extremely rigorously and strictly enforced , salary cap. Therefore well sponsored clubs ( read 'bankrolled by sugar-daddies' ) - Bristol for example, had huge resources whilst in the Championship but were not allowed to bring them with them to the Premiership when they got promoted.tigerburnie wrote:Play offs are just cash cows, get rid of them all, sorry straw clearer, but what you propose is just ring fencing in disguise. Championship sides do not get Premiership resources so their player squad is smaller and generally less strong.
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Will this help Tigers to get promoted back to the Premiership in 2019?
Nowadays referees decide matches, players by how much.
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Re: No Championship play-offs for three seasons
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Sorry BeeJ I think it would be a retrograde step to scrap the play offs in the Premiership. I have long been of the opinion that the top championship club should be automatically promoted, but I do think that the second, third and fourth teams
in the Championship and the team that finishes 11th in the premiership should go into a play off system and the winner be promoted to the premiership. Trouble is that that will never happen as too many of even the stronger premiership clubs would be dead set against it just in case they suffer a bad season amd find themselves struggling.
in the Championship and the team that finishes 11th in the premiership should go into a play off system and the winner be promoted to the premiership. Trouble is that that will never happen as too many of even the stronger premiership clubs would be dead set against it just in case they suffer a bad season amd find themselves struggling.
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Why? What are your reasons? As Tigerburnie quite rightly said, play-offs are nothing more than cash cows.Noddy555 wrote:Sorry BeeJ I think it would be a retrograde step to scrap the play offs in the Premiership.
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But why?Noddy555 wrote:Sorry BeeJ I think it would be a retrograde step to scrap the play offs in the Premiership. I have long been of the opinion that the top championship club should be automatically promoted, but I do think that the second, third and fourth teams
in the Championship and the team that finishes 11th in the premiership should go into a play off system and the winner be promoted to the premiership. Trouble is that that will never happen as too many of even the stronger premiership clubs would be dead set against it just in case they suffer a bad season amd find themselves struggling.
Why should the team that finished 4th in the league have an equal chance of promotion to the teams that finished higher in the league?
The league is a meritocracy the best team over the season finishes top, only they should be promoted. Based on the experience over the last 10 years the evidence would suggest that the gulf between Championship and Premiership is such that teams lower down have virtually negligible chance of surviving in the premiership.
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What he said.drc_007 wrote:Why should the team that finished 4th in the league have an equal chance of promotion to the teams that finished higher in the league?
The league is a meritocracy the best team over the season finishes top, only they should be promoted. Based on the experience over the last 10 years the evidence would suggest that the gulf between Championship and Premiership is such that teams lower down have virtually negligible chance of surviving in the premiership.
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Re: No Championship play-offs for three seasons
It used to be bottom club relegated, top club promoted and a play off between the Premiership second bottom and the Championship second top for a place in the top division although I don't think the second place team ever won. I am not certain they were called Premiership and Championship at the time. It was discontinued because for teams in the lower division even if they had the quality players they had not had the season long experience of playing at the higher level and were therefore disadvantaged. Personally I would like to see a Premiership one and two each of fourteen teams with an automatic two up and two down. Both divisions to be full time professional and initial make-up of Prem 2 would be of teams bidding for a place based on their current league standing, ambition, financial resources and ground criteria.
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Sorry Beej and drc_7 cash cows?What the hell is wrong with wanting more money into the coffers of the game, you both need to get your heads out of the sand and face reality, despite whether you like it or not money is the lubricant that enables the professional game to survive.
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Sorry Neil Noddy but the Championship playoffs are really a cash cow, I do not like the playoffs in any division as the pure supporter is milked for more of his hard earned money. My exwife was a cashcow & drove a qashqai (cashcow!)Noddy555 wrote:Sorry Beej and drc_7 cash cows?What the hell is wrong with wanting more money into the coffers of the game, you both need to get your heads out of the sand and face reality, despite whether you like it or not money is the lubricant that enables the professional game to survive.
We all realise that your first in - last out at the Try Line Club "lubricates the coffers" and surely Tigers are appreciative of your sponsorship but I wish that monies collected really went into development of the game not the Fatcats in Blazers.