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No, we'd almost certainly be in pot three (which is as the graphic suggests).

You've made me waste six minutes of my Friday night to go back and listen at double speed to see if I'd have to apologise to you, but no, the word 'lucky' wasn't used at all. The word gambled was used about thirty times though.

Think the phrase was 'he gambled', which is different from saying he got lucky.

Pff, it's the usual vague bollocks alluding to being in the know but it's always a rehash of Scott Burns' Twitter feed. Someone who looked at the success of the Agent Scotland account, and thought 'I could do that'.

Everyone's in the same boat obviously, but yeah, if the entire five years of qualifying results had been at the 'new' rate, we'd be on the cusp of being seeded all the way through to QR3 this year.

And on this, again ahead of last season, they changed the number of club points you get for being eliminated at various stages. Previously QR1 = 0.25, QR2 = 0.5, QR3 = 1.0, QR4 = 1.5 Now PR = 0.5, QR1 = 1.0, QR2 = 1.5, QR3, = 2.0, QR4 = 2.5

They changed the way coefficient were calculated ahead of 18-18. Previously the club coefficient was your club points + 20% of your country's point total. Now it's the higher of your club points or 20% of the country's total. So that impacted us last season just as we'd started to build up enough points to get seeded at the QR2 stage.