IF this game ‘gets its very breath from the Community’ as Derek Gilbert states, and we have lost 65 per cent of participants in the game since the divisive league system was introduced that Jeff Probyn refers to, then it is not long for this world at the real community level.
The game has become more brutal and less attractive, the smaller lower league clubs are withering away.
The RFU observes that no club has gone to the wall, but many are very close to that wall and it is not the pandemic that has caused it. We are losing the heart and soul of the game that I played fo...