Pay-cuts will hit the academy graduates hardest

TWENTY-FIVE per cent of an awful lot of money is a considerable sum, but the remaining 75 per cent should be just about enough to keep a man out of the local food bank.
The Rugby Football Union is absolutely right – not a phrase you read every day – in deciding that the biggest earners at Twickenham, including the chief executive Bill Sweeney and the head coach Eddie Jones, should forfeit a quarter of their mega salaries in the face of the current and impending financial turmoil.
But where there’s a right, there’s usually a wrong.
While the Exeter and England wi...

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