THE price of freedom in Rugby Union, as with freedom in a wider context, is eternal vigilance. Nothing underlines this more than the Premiership ringfencers mobilising again for another big push aimed at ending promotion and relegation, and creating a monopoly at elite level for specific clubs.
Their strategy is to bypass the rugby public, avoiding open debate by concentrating their attentions solely on upper echelon administrators in this sport.
This time the plan is a concerted stealth attack aimed at persuading decision-makers within the RFU administration to abandon their established po...