By Nick Cain
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A new English season starts this weekend with strife and frustration in the late September air.
It’s more cordite than confetti for the 12 Championship clubs as they battle with an RFU administration that seems determined to keep them on the margins of the professional club game.
There is deep dissatisfaction with what second tier clubs see as the Twickenham suits making frequent noises about concessions and co-operation on promotion-relegation, while simultaneously bolting the door to progress.
How else, they argue, could anyone describe th...
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