RUGBY MATTERS

CLOSE match-ups with local University sides are nothing particularly new. The great Coventry sides back in the day enjoyed a massive Loughborough University input while Leicester Tigers also cultivated that deep vein of Loughborough talent.
Wasps at one stage resembled a Cambridge University OBs line up, well behind the scrum anyway, while Bath and Quins were courting dark blue talent. South Glamorgan institute served Cardiff and others very well.
A hat-tip however to Exeter and my old lot at Exeter University who have taken those close relations to another, formal leve...