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Concerns: Ealing Trailfinders have gates of around 1,000

APremiership table in which there is only a nine point gap between Wasps in fourth place and Newcastle at the foot of the table has got the promotion-relegation drums banging.
As ever, it is a weird, discordant beat, with calls this time from some club owners in the top tier to ring-fence the Premiership in mid-season, thereby ending the right of the Championship winners to be promoted.
The fear is that Ealing Trailfinders, who are second placed and rarely summon a crowd of more than 1,000, coul...