RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points

THE subject of salary caps and their desirability has been much discussed recently, mainly in connection with the relative failure of English clubs in Europe this season with no semi-finalists in the Champions Cup and no finalist in the Challenge Cup.
I’d be wary of making too much of that. England didn’t have any semi-finalists in the 2003 Heineken Cup either but as I recall the season went pretty well elsewhere and was generally considered a highwater mark for English rugby.
But ...