Neil Treacy
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16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
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So the first one is on bonus points.
There's a change to the bonus points.
You're still going to get a losing bonus point if you lose by seven points or less.
That one's going to be the same.
But they've changed it around to the top 14 in the Super Rugby bonus point system where there's no longer a bonus point just for scoring four tries.
Now to get that bonus point, you're going to have to score three tries more than your opponent.
So if your opponent scores one try, you've to score at least four.
If your opponent scores two tries, you've to score at least five, so on and so on.
The second change they have as well, the top three teams from each pool will qualify automatically for the round of 16 rather than the top four from each pool.
So it's going to be the top three from each pool.
And then the remaining teams are going to essentially get ranked automatically.
And the top four will progress to the, to the next round, similar to the way we'd have it with the soccer world cup at the moment where you take all those, those third place teams, et cetera.
So the reason they're doing that is to eliminate the possibility as much as possible of what has happened a couple of times in recent years, where in one team, you have a team with two wins missing out on a place in the round of 16 at the expense of a team in a different pool who have qualified with just one win and picked up a
So they're the two changes.
First of all, I might come to your bonus points.
Thoughts on that?
We had an email recently enough that I never got a chance to read out.
It was sparked by Bristol getting a bonus point, for example, against Northampton in the premiership in the game.
In a game they lost 94-33.
I think that is the sort of result that...
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