{"id":631253,"date":"2025-12-14T04:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631253\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:36:16","slug":"revert-to-old-system-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631253\/","title":{"rendered":"Revert to old system in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u25a0 By ADAM HATHAWAY <\/p>\n<p>Boss: Geoff Parling <\/p>\n<p>LEICESTER boss Geoff Parling reckons European chiefs should turn back time to revive the Champions Cup and revert to their old system.<br \/>The structure of the tournament has come under fire with four groups of six, where teams can\u2019t face clubs from the same league, and a round of 16.<br \/>Under the old format there were five groups of four, a hugely popular double header where teams played each other home and away over two weekends before Christmas, and eight qualifiers went straight to the quarter-finals.<br \/>And Parling, who played unde&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u25a0 By ADAM HATHAWAY Boss: Geoff Parling LEICESTER boss Geoff Parling reckons European chiefs should turn back time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2383,88355,12422,2000,299,5187,41353,918,5014,18673,4306,11653,2619,12070],"class_list":{"0":"post-631253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-champions-cup","9":"tag-clermont","10":"tag-club-rugby","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-exeter","15":"tag-glasgow","16":"tag-gloucester","17":"tag-leicester","18":"tag-leinster","19":"tag-premium","20":"tag-sale","21":"tag-saracens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115716068771605840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}