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@Markyboy
Apples and pears.
I've played in France and still have friends involved - it's chaos in many, many ways. I agree with your reasoning for Irish success, it doesn't mean abolishing the salary cap wouldn't give English teams a better chance of success in the Heineken Cup - it would. Leicester and Northampton have spread themselves very thinly this season, as they do most years. Leicester went to Leinster with no locks to speak of and, unsurprisingly, lost. The best team in English rugby, in recent years since the Irish have sorted themselves out, has regularly struggled to comfortably qualify for the later stages of the HC. An inadequate squad and the demands of the national team is the main reason. No salary cap, wold be very different. At the expense of smaller clubs? No doubt, but who really cares about Exeter or Leeds?