NEWCASTLE are to play a Premiership ‘home’ game in Philadelphia next September which again shows how Premiership clubs care little about, and do not represent, the areas in which they are situated.
Why not play an occasional fixture in Durham or Cumbria?
Kent and Essex are part of the supply chain feeding Saracens’ academy. Yet a few seasons ago Saracens played a ‘home’ game in Brussels; no apparent thought given to playing in one of the counties upon which the success of their academy depends.
A friend in Cornwall tells me that if Exeter played an occasional h...