While the game in the East Midlands drowns, the RFU lifeboat is in the dry dock with the crew nowhere to be seen. If ever there was a sign of the indifference of the Bill Sweeney/Tom Ilube RFU administration towards the English club game outside the 10 Premiership clubs, it came with the severe flooding suffered last week by Championship stalwarts Nottingham.
As Nottingham’s Lady Bay ground was submerged by the flooding from the River Trent, the club’s chairman, Alistair Bow, went straight to the RFU’s performance director, Conor O’Shea, to ask what help was available. The help that Bow requ...