GET ready for a fracture in the English club game resulting in months of strife if the RFU Board’s attempt to get the RFU Council to approve the PGP at a meeting at Twickenham this Friday is successful.
This became clear this week when Championship clubs made a public statement that the RFU has put them in such a perilous position that they have no option other than to challenge the governing body, whatever the outcome.
Their claim can be backed up by swingeing funding cuts imposed already by the RFU, and also by a PGP proposal that leaves many of the 12 Championship clubs on ...