Letters
CHRIS Robshaw, who is leaving English rugby to join San Diego Legion, predicts more senior players could follow him to the United States to finish their careers, citing the physcial demands of Premiership rugby.
This has been caused by the RFU’s failure to put England’s leading players onto central contracts, which was in turn caused by the big clubs adapting to professionalism quicker than the governing body 25 years ago. English rugby has been dogged by that failure ever since; and that situation will continue until the RFU stand up to the Premiership clubs.
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