A spirit of adventure comes at high price

Crowd pleaser: Cadan Murley scores for Quins against Leicester in front of nearly 80,000 at Twickenham
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NO matter what the Premiership serves up, it is not to everyone’s tastes. Go back a few years when the league, except for an outlier, resembled England in its risk-free approach and it was condemned as boring.
In the last couple of seasons, when most clubs armed themselves with the spirit of adventure, it has been condemned as a haunt of dodgy defenders with too many tries scored to give players a secure leg up to international rugby.
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