NICK CAIN

The RFU revealed a bizarre £220 million 10-year plan for professional women’s rugby that appears to be based more on fantasy than on any objective appraisal of its own parlous financial position, which impacts all its member clubs.
In the process the RFU pandered to just two of the club leagues whose wellbeing it is meant to safeguard, namely the 13-club men’s Premiership and the 10-team women’s Premier 15s.
The RFU stated that its plan involves a partnership between the two leagues, which are already joined at the hip given that eight of the Premier 15s teams are run by Premiersh...