Don't look now Sean, but we are online ...

Excellent Contribution Pinky

Now that you are on Tiktok, Snapchat, Twitter, MySpace and possibly Bebo you should put this up online

Sol_ie wrote: I'm printing this out.

Good plan, it may require some margin notes ...

Greatest contribution to this forum in some time. I'm printing this out.

The below kinda sums up the main scenarios, though it ignores some of the more obscure bonus point situations, as I only had two dimensions to work with ...
(I know I probably lost a lot of readers at "Shout for Leinster")

Technically there's been no announcement from EPCR about the format for next season but the confirmation of an identical fixture list pretty much confirms that it's the same "temporary" format we inherited from the pandemic.
So getting fifth or sixth in the league would be handy to avoid the English and French finalists - seventh or eighth would likely give us Saracens/Sale and Toulouse/La Rochelle.
Complete guess at what the Challenge Cup format will be. Seventeen teams confirmed so it depends on how many invitational teams they bring in. Pumas and Griquas would bring it back to the 20 they had for the original format this season. The good news is that if we end up in there, at least we'll be a top seed.
My take on how this weekend is shaping up: rugby.connacht.pink/?p=129
And a few other Clan Members have had a cut at it too:
www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/arid-41117902.html
www.sportsnewsireland.com/rugby/rugby_ir...urc-see-permutations