NICK CAIN
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The RFU’s indecision is final. It does not know what to do about promotion-relegation – or, if it does, it is not saying.
This is because it fears the backlash that any extension of the Premiership ring-fence moratorium due to expire at the end of this season will justifiably unleash.
In the meantime, injustice rules. A Newcastle side that is bottom of the Premiership without a single win this season, and that has been knocking around in the lower reaches of the league for the best part of 25 years, is assured of a place in the top tier next se...