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Article: Scottish teams welcome season-ending play-offs in Magners League

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August 28, 2008
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ANDY Robinson and Sean Lineen yesterday welcomed the introduction of play-offs to determine the Magners League champions from season 2009-10 after league officials confirmed that they would not be railroaded from the plan by rumoured expansions of the Anglo-Welsh EDF Cup.

That cup competition is understood to be more lucrative to Welsh clubs than participation in the Magners League, but at yesterday's launch of the 2008-9 competition at the Royal Dublin Society Showground, home to reigning Magners champions Leinster, it was underlined that the Welsh, Irish and Scottish rugby unions had signed up to a longer Celtic season with play-offs from next summer in a concerted bid to strengthen ...

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