NICK CAIN
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The English club game has a great opportunity right now for an urgent overhaul, especially as the Premiership’s financial and competitive model is in a state of collapse.
Instead, we had yet another week that left the English game blowing in the wind, and drifting rudderless towards the rocks with barely a word from the RFU.
The failing competitive structure was encapsulated by a Premiership no-contest last weekend in which Northampton, who were in third place, were thrashed 62-8 by a Bristol side that had spent half the season at the foot of t...