By JON NEWCOMBE

Blueprint: Edward Griffiths

ED GRIFFITHS hopes his plan to restructure Championship rugby will help end “the Punch & Judy” style politics that has dogged English rugby since the game went professional.
As revealed in The Rugby Paper last week, Griffiths’ 76-page document contains some innovative ideas to make the Championship first-class in its own right and not just second-best to the Premiership.
Griffiths met with RFU CEO Bill Sweeney and director of performance rugby Conor O’Shea on Thursday and is in the process of arranging further meetin...