RUGBY MATTERS

NOT for the first time I offer a heartfelt warning against those who continue to argue for a switch to summer rugby in this part of the world which, among other things, would theoretically help promote a global season. It’s not that you can’t play rugby in this summer, of course you can and particularly when you get a cool damp summer like the one we are currently suffering. No, it’s just that the elite game would disappear from our consciousness and get lost in an avalanche of world class sport.
In the last month or so, in no particular order, we h...