Heard about this, Bill? Boks losing to your National League

Brendan Gallagher gives the RFU food for thought with a famous match at Worcester

Determination: Duncan Roke, of the National League, is held by De Wet Barry
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While conceding that RFU CEO Bill Sweeney, once a stalwart with Weybridge Vandals, knows his rugby much better than his predecessor – tennis fiend Ian Ritchie – I would suggest he probably still needs educating as to just how strong the Championship was, and could still be, if treated as an asset rather than as a white elephant that needs to be off-loaded.
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