WELL said, John Rowlands, in your letter last week, headed “Lions should play hard ball with PRL”.
If a Lions tour is the highly valued prize that participants’ reactions indicate, then surely any suggestion that Premiership players will be excluded from selection will cause ructions at their clubs.
This might just shake their managements out of their blinkered pursuit of narrow self-interest, whereby concessions are made only grudgingly and then subject to financial compensation.
As Colin Boag writes in the same edition, most rugby fans will identify more closely with the...