Lack of relegation is not causing a loss of edge

COLIN BOAG

Dog-fight: Worcester Warriors versus Gloucester

It’s five weeks since the moratorium on Premiership relegation was announced, and if the doom-mongers were to be believed, some teams would by now be swanning around with their players demonstrating a couldn’t-care-less attitude. We were told that the lack of ‘jeopardy’ would be damaging to the league, and that fans would lose interest, but so far nothing could be further from the truth.
The classic example was the bottom-of-the-table encounter between Worcester Warriors and Gloucester – elevent...

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