The RFU has always maintained that promotion-relegation is sacrosanct, even though the RFU Council agreed in February 2021 to a so-called “moratorium” to suspend it for three years after bowing to Premiership pressure post-Covid.
It was a bad decision because the Premiership model was badly broken before Covid, and in need of radical reform. The RFU was then forced to go back on its own moratorium when Wasps, Worcester, and London Irish went bust, and were all relegated under RFU regulations for the multi-million financial collapses.
At the end of this season the moratorium ends, with promot...