COULD BE
SAYS JOE LAUNCHBURY

JOE Launchbury has strong reservations about the newly-proposed World 12s tournament and insists: “They would have to make more weeks in the year!”
The Wasps and England man says he fully understand why the powers that be are exploring new ways to increase the sports’ popularity and finances. But the 30-year-old lock feels it will be almost impossible to shoehorn the competition into what is already an overloaded fixture schedule without putting players’ welfare on the line.
Launchbury said: “If it grows the sport then I a...