WE could be heading back into the shadowlands of clandestine decisionmaking, with the idea being floated that the Premiership could be reduced to ten teams, with the possibility that a ten-team Championship would come under the umbrella of Premiership Rugby Ltd.
The body apparently mulling over this radical plan is the Professional Game Board, which is the joint RFU/PRL ‘thinktank’, the most non-accountable body in the professional game. It operates with an almost total lack of transparency, with no Press conferences, and has never been known to answer questions about its delibe...