European Qualifier Discussion - 2013 and onwards

John: Consider the idea that all top teams change their line-ups one year... the system then falls down and sends a bunch of middle-ability (complete) teams from last season instead of the best possible UK teams (effectively putting a 1 season/year proving/qualification time period on all new UK teams)... this is a major flaw in my opinion and we should try and mirror the same-season qualification process of other countries/sports.

I simply don't agree. It's 1 or 2 teams, not a bunch, and either they still have 2/3 of their lineup, and are still a top team, or they don't, and lose the place.

Many sports don't use a same year qualification process.

The final NS event last year was 8? months before the Euros, it's not really that long.