Bonus point system has big faults

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I FEEL that it’s time to radically change the ‘Bonus Point’ issue – I don’t think you should be rewarded for shipping four tries (and scoring four) and losing by fewer than seven points. It should be one or the other.
The French system seems a fairer way of awarding bonus points for tries as you have to score three clear tries more than your opposition.
The fact that Exeter have lost two games but are still top because they have 11 bonus points is just ludicrous – they lost at the weekend but got two bonus points how can that be right?
If we can’t f...

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