■ By BEN JAYCOCK

MOST Championship sides spent this week gearing up for the Premiership Cup but Cambridge and Chinnor were left twiddling their thumbs, both excluded from the competition.
Due to Cambridge finishing bottom of the second tier and Chinnor being newly promoted, the RFU opted to make this year’s Premiership Cup competition a 20-team affair.
The two clubs will play a two-legged ‘Not Premiership Cup’ later this month to fill in some of the gaps but Cambridge back row Kayde Sylvester recognises a missed opportunity to test himself against topflig...