IT IS hard to disagree with Jeff Gage’s letter in last week’s TRP, when he writes of the alarm bells that should be ringing at Twickenham after the secession of 24 Lancashire clubs.
Jeff Probyn also rightly alludes to the halcyon days pre-professionalism, when all clubs had multiple sides and fixtures that allowed clubs to play all their sides against the same local club on the same day.
It will be interesting to see whether the two Lancastrian leagues are able to re-create anything like that situation. It is important, though to recognise that National League levels of rugby ar...