Championship is losing its ‘Buzz’

By JON NEWCOMBE

CHAMPIONSHIP warrior Ryan Burrows has bowed out from the league he has served stoically over 14 years with a parting shot aimed at the RFU and their shoddy treatment of English rugby’s second tier.
The Coventry No.8 played his last Championship league game last weekend, bringing to an end a career that started at Rotherham in 2007/08, when the majority of his Coventry team-mates were pre-school age.
In that time, the barnstorming back rower was selected in a recordequalling five Championship Dream Teams and is in contention for a ground-breaking sixth having impressed t...

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