COLIN BOAG

Made good in New Zealand: Northampton’s Piers Francis was let go by the Saracens Academy
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During the week I received an email from a regular contributor to the Rugby Paper’s letter pages, Jeff Gage, once again trotting out the same old arguments about how the English game is structured. It’s almost as if he and his fellow-travellers believe that if they repeat the same mantra over and over again, it will magically acquire some credibility – it won’t.
At the heart of the matter is the charge that the clubs are entirely self-i...