Halliday calls for clarity on Championship funding issues

By NICK CAIN

Championship clubs are calling for the funding issues surrounding next season’s reintroduction of promotion-relegation to be ratified urgently.
While a home and away play-off between the Championship winners and bottom Premiership club was approved at an RFU Council meeting last month, the Championship board chairman Simon Halliday told The Rugby Paper that key financial details which have been discussed and agreed in principle, have yet to be decided.
Halliday, above, said: "We made it clear to the RFU Council that we had to bridge the gap on funding for any Championship clu...

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