NICK CAIN
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PLAYERS and coaches in the Premiership have started to align in their resistance to the World Rugby blueprint for a ten to eleven month season in Europe, and England in particular. The new global season schedule from 2020 to 2032, which World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont hailed in March as providing “certainty and stability”, appears to have done the exact opposite.
Senior England players were the first to voice discontent, with Billy Vunipola, Joe Marler and Ben Youngs warning that strike action is being considered by players in or...