NICK CAIN

One of the most incomprehensible aspects of this season is that the PGP (Professional Game Partnership) is missing one crucial component. There is no way that it can be called a “partnership” because the plans hatched by this RFU administration have not involved the Championship clubs in any meaningful consultation.
The Rugby Paper has run numerous news stories in recent months detailing the frustration of the Championship clubs over their exclusion from negotiations between the RFU and Premiership, and their refusal to be dictated to by a Twickenham administration they believe i...