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I hadn’t realised that the Pro-14 competition has been renamed, or at least that’s what I’ve deduced. If I’m wrong perhaps someone (Jerry perhaps as our resident rugby union expert - he won’t claim that but he is) will put me right.
I believe Pro-14 is now the United Rugby Championship and this season (2021-2022) the format will see the 16 teams split into four regional pools for the first part of the competition: the Irish Shield pool (four Irish teams); the Welsh Shield pool (four Welsh teams); the South African Shield pool (four South African teams); the Scottish and Italian Shield pool (two Scottish and two Italian teams).
Teams will play each of the other teams in their pool twice (home and away), and each team from the other pools once (either home or away, presumably spread so that each team has the same number of home and away matches against the other pools’ teams). This leads to a total of 18 matches per team in this part of the competition.
The 16 teams will create one league table based on their 18 matches from which the top eight will play off in a knock-out competition to decide the ultimate champions. They will be seeded from one to eight so presumably the top team will play at home to the eighth-placed team, the second-placed team at home to the seventh-placed team and so on. The four individual pool winners will also each receive a shield.
I suppose that it’s possible for the eighth-placed team in the league table to win the knock-out section and become champions. It’s a bit like how the English Rugby Premiership decides its champions - the top four in the league at the end of the season play off in a mini knock-out tournament in that competition.
I’m not keen on that. If you have a league the team that finishes top of the league should be the champions although I can see with this competition that it is different in that, unlike the English Rugby Premiership, not all teams play each other twice in the first part of the competition.
As this is mainly an aviation forum it’s worth saying that with four Welsh teams playing four South African teams during the first part of the competition CWL might benefit from some long-haul flights. I wonder if charter flights will be organised for fans.
As I said earlier, if I’ve got some of this wrong please correct me.
I believe Pro-14 is now the United Rugby Championship and this season (2021-2022) the format will see the 16 teams split into four regional pools for the first part of the competition: the Irish Shield pool (four Irish teams); the Welsh Shield pool (four Welsh teams); the South African Shield pool (four South African teams); the Scottish and Italian Shield pool (two Scottish and two Italian teams).
Teams will play each of the other teams in their pool twice (home and away), and each team from the other pools once (either home or away, presumably spread so that each team has the same number of home and away matches against the other pools’ teams). This leads to a total of 18 matches per team in this part of the competition.
The 16 teams will create one league table based on their 18 matches from which the top eight will play off in a knock-out competition to decide the ultimate champions. They will be seeded from one to eight so presumably the top team will play at home to the eighth-placed team, the second-placed team at home to the seventh-placed team and so on. The four individual pool winners will also each receive a shield.
I suppose that it’s possible for the eighth-placed team in the league table to win the knock-out section and become champions. It’s a bit like how the English Rugby Premiership decides its champions - the top four in the league at the end of the season play off in a mini knock-out tournament in that competition.
I’m not keen on that. If you have a league the team that finishes top of the league should be the champions although I can see with this competition that it is different in that, unlike the English Rugby Premiership, not all teams play each other twice in the first part of the competition.
As this is mainly an aviation forum it’s worth saying that with four Welsh teams playing four South African teams during the first part of the competition CWL might benefit from some long-haul flights. I wonder if charter flights will be organised for fans.
As I said earlier, if I’ve got some of this wrong please correct me.