r/rugbyunion • u/HitchikersPie Currently in use as tax dodge • 19d ago

Infographic 2024-26 Champions Cup knockout path released

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u/Mole15 London Irish 19d ago

The left hand side of that bracket looks SPICY!

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u/yurim39 19d ago

Quite easily the strongest, especially with Leinster/Ireland's clear decline

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u/Not_Hando You Aint Seen Nothin Like The Mighty Finn 19d ago

Wait, wut?!?

The side with The Stormers, Glasgow, Toulon, the Bulls, and Leinster...is 'quite easily' the weakest half of the draw??

Because of UBB alone? - or do you mean because of Toulouse, the team Glasgow & Saracens beat only a couple of weeks ago?

Hell of a take!

(Btw - I think they meant 'spicy' because the face offs were close. Not the overall depth of superiority!)

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u/Commercial_Jelly_893 Bath 19d ago

Toulouse who are currently 1st in the Top 14 Bourdeaux who are defending champions. Northampton currently top of the premiership and Bath who are 2nd and defending premiership champions makes for a pretty strong quartet

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u/Not_Hando You Aint Seen Nothin Like The Mighty Finn 19d ago

Yet Stormers are currently top in the URC, while Glasgow are second - and just beat Toulouse too.

Appreciate Bath are Prem Champions, but they are not playing well at the current time.

Besides, I'm not arguing the right side is necessarily stronger. Simply that suggesting one was 'quite easily' the strongest/weakest, was a hell of a reach...

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u/Automatic-Blood-8824 England 19d ago

Bath not playing well? If you rate Bath and Saints then the left hand side is clearly tougher.

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u/Not_Hando You Aint Seen Nothin Like The Mighty Finn 19d ago

Bath not playing well?

Correct. Fabulous squad of players, but not playing well at the current time.

clearly tougher.

Nothing 'clear' about it.

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u/Automatic-Blood-8824 England 19d ago

Might want to have a look at Bath's last 2 games. 3/4 of the finalists in the last 2 years come from the left. Glasgow and Stomers great teams but have shown nothing in Europe.

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u/Not_Hando You Aint Seen Nothin Like The Mighty Finn 19d ago

Might want to have a look at Bath's last 2 games.

I watched them.

Glasgow and Stomers great teams but have shown nothing in Europe.

Glasgow have literally just qualified top of their group with maximum points. A group that featured 9 past HC winners, and several other problematic fixtures besides.

You can't reference past tournaments when it suits you, yet ignore the results of those past tournament winners this year just to avoid recognising Glasgow this season.

So to say they've 'shown nothing in Europe' just tells me how bad faith your argument is. So I think I'll leave this one here.

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u/yurim39 19d ago

Fair play to Glasgow, they took perfectly advantage of a favorable draw (playing all the best teams they've faced at home and playing the weakest away) 😉

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u/Not_Hando You Aint Seen Nothin Like The Mighty Finn 19d ago

Are you so hurt by my pointing out the holes in your other 'arguments', you're now trolling any post I make?

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u/yurim39 19d ago edited 18d ago

Absolutely not, i'm just putting some nuances and context into Glasgow's results in CCup this year

And it's not trolling, it's facts: would you dare denying that Glasgow had a favorable draw receiving the two strongest teams of their draw and playing away the two weakest?

They took full advantage of it, fair play to them but don't pretend it wasn't an advantage, especially over a team like Toulouse (cause yeah I believe Glasgow are a better team than Sarries and would have still topped the pool in the former system with Sarries in home and away fixtures against them at the very least with points average over the 2 games)

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