By JON NEWCOMBE

NICK Easter has described the decision to exclude his Chinnor side and Cambridge from next season’s Premiership Cup as “appalling and astonishing.”
Premiership Rugby, who organise the Premiership Cup, have only invited the top 10 teams from last season’s Championship into what will be a streamlined 20-team competition, with National One champions Chinnor and last year’s bottom club Cambridge left out in the cold.
It was first mooted in May that only 10 of the 12 Championship clubs may be involved but the bad news was only confirmed to the two disappointed parties recently....