NICK CAIN
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AT the same time as Bath collapsed to a record 64-0 defeat against Gloucester last weekend, Premiership Rugby’s propaganda machine was working overtime to spin the message that theirs is the most entertaining, competitive league on the planet. The virtues of basketball rugby were being extolled to the heavens with try counts, points totals and bonus points, the altars at which the Premiership’s comms department worships.
Bucketloads of tries scored in no-contest games reminiscent of those that brought Super Rugby to its knees are, in Premiership...