JEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

Well, here we are back to rugby at the club level and all the woes that professionalism has created for the game. One is the veiled threat by Maro Itoje to leave the English game for foreign shores unless he gets more money.
I don’t blame any player for going to where he gets a bigger salary – at the end of the day the career of a professional sportsman or woman is relatively short and can be ended in an instant by injury. However, the idea that the RFU is thinking of offering him a central contract seems ridiculous when it is ...