NICK CAIN
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English club rugby has never been more in need of coherent, strong, farsighted leadership as it enters the 2022-23 season.
Yet, the contradictions stemming from the RFU’s support of the Premiership’s 13-club cartel are all around, as are the signals that it is throttling the English game by killing ambition in clubs from the Championship through to the community league structure below it.
An obvious sign of confusion was this week’s announcement that Eddie Jones will soon be taking the England squad back to Jersey for a pre-autumn series train...