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THERE’S talk of the Premiership becoming rugby’s first £billion league.
With Premiership and England players already isolated from direct playing contact with those in lower leagues, the pressure to ring-fence will become unstoppable. Recent statements from the RFU’s Stephen Brown and Nigel Melville show opposition to ring-fencing within the governing body is fading.
Thanks to the RFU giving so much influence to the selfinterested Premiersh...