Decline: Yorkshire Carnegie over-extened to fund huge wage bill
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SO now the answer to English rugby’s problems is – according to Richard Hill and Louis Grimoldby in last week’s Rugby Paper – to replicate the French tier 1 and 2 structure.
Both, from their considerable experience of the system in France come up with clear benefits of the way things work there, but neither addresses the fundamental question of how similarly huge amounts of funding can be mobilised in England to those clearly available in France. We do not enjoy the system of mun...