Ex-Championship prop handed an on-trial match start for Ulster

Not sure it would be fair to judge McKellar on Leicester, it’s a tough gig with that dressing room and looked more like a poor fit more than anything else.

Would be a shock if O’Gara would touch it, he publicly dismissed Wales recently but covets France, England and Ireland - in that order.

Cotter would be interesting and he’s got qualities but he’s also got some elements of Eddie Jones about him believe it or not - he had the Scotland wc squad in camp, believe it or not, with the French foreign legion and ripping the heads off chickens!

You also insisted you knew how the UEFA system works, despite the fact that the UEFA system doesn't assume a 1:1 correspondance between points and places.

The video isn't hard to find and very damning.

In other words there is no rule that says that X number of points should translate to Y number of places, unless you came up with that rule.

So I ask again:

How did you come to the conclusion that half of the champions cup teams would be french if a UEFA style points system was adopted?

Why are you being so evasive about this?

So I ask again:

How did you come to the conclusion that half of the champions cup teams would be french if a UEFA style points system was adopted?

What have been the best of URC's contribution to EPCR rugby?

What applications are you talking about? Who has made them?

"Otherwise, like I've already said, you're first likely to be looking at Challenge, getting a few their, then back to Champions quarters I'd imagine."

I'm quite confused by how you're framing this. For a 20 team champions cup I'd have 4 teams qualify from the previous years champions cup, and 4 from the previous years challenge cup. For a 16 team champions cup I'd have 3 teams qualify from the previous years champions cup, and 1 from the previous years challenge cup.

"You might find it more palatable if you flip the sequence in CC qualifcation"

I'd find it a lot less palatable, hence why I didn't suggest it!