IT’S official: the props are revolting. As the coronavirus- driven realities of wage restraint and salary cap reduction kick in, it is the men at the coalface who are landing haymakers on the sport’s ruling class. What fool said Scargillism was dead? Ellis Genge, Greg Bateman and Mark Lambert have all been on “workers’ rights” duty in recent days, although it cannot be said that the front row union is united. When push comes to shove internal division will not help the cause.
Genge is the architect of the new Rugby Players Epoch, a breakaway organisation determ...