RFU plan National Leagues shake-up

By NEALE HARVEY
RADICAL plans to salvage lower league rugby in the New Year could see National One and Two sides pooled in a regionalised 48- team competition with no promotion or relegation.
The Rugby Paper understands a tournament that would initially see sides placed in eight groups of six, playing each other home and away before a second pool stage and then a series of knock-out rounds to decide a champion, is among a number of proposals under discussion. Others include keeping the individual leagues as they are with sides playing each other just once in a truncated 15-match campaign, o...

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