RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

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SO that’s a wrap and after this final debrief I suggest we shelve everything for the World Cup for at least two years, otherwise the four-year cycle becomes all-consuming to the detriment of everything else. We have all overdosed recently, become World Cup addicts, and need to go cold turkey for a while.
Let’s concentrate instead on trying to breathe life back into elite club rugby in England; restoring the European Cup to its former glory; making the game truly democratic rather than a cruel sporting imitati...