The Expansion to 24 teams, what are people's opinions now?
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Rook
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why? top 4 get byes, so no team can sleep walk through the final group stage match. There should be some reward for winning the group stage with 7 or 9 pts. With 32 teams why even bother with qualifying?
The Cowboy
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32 eliminates almost 50% of the qualifying teams, then a straight top two from each group eliminates 50% of the finalists.
Can't get on board with byes at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jul/12/euro-2016-death-possession-football
Everybody has a chance to qualify for the Euros. The smaller sides who made an impact – Wales, Iceland, even Northern Ireland – would have qualified for a 16-team tournament because they were good enough. Take France plus the best 15 teams from qualifying (allowing for a couple of sides easing off having already secured their place in the finals) and the only differences to the last 16 that did emerge are swapping Hungary and Ireland for Austria and the Czech Republic: 36 games, most of them dull, over a two-week period for that.
This will be taken as complaining at teams defending. It is not. Weaker teams should defend, they must defend. Their obligation is to get the best result possible, or it is no longer a sport. That can be uplifting, but when attacks are poor it tends to be dull.
Everybody has a chance to qualify for the Euros. The smaller sides who made an impact – Wales, Iceland, even Northern Ireland – would have qualified for a 16-team tournament because they were good enough. Take France plus the best 15 teams from qualifying (allowing for a couple of sides easing off having already secured their place in the finals) and the only differences to the last 16 that did emerge are swapping Hungary and Ireland for Austria and the Czech Republic: 36 games, most of them dull, over a two-week period for that.
This will be taken as complaining at teams defending. It is not. Weaker teams should defend, they must defend. Their obligation is to get the best result possible, or it is no longer a sport. That can be uplifting, but when attacks are poor it tends to be dull.
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