RFU’s interim chief executive, Nigel Melville, confirmed that relegation from the Premiership would remain for this season.
For Melville to even think that moving the promotion/relegation goalposts halfway through a season was worth commenting on shows how the RFU are running scared of their Premiership clubs.
Melville and Steve Brown (before he quit) both recently and publicly failed to shoot down the arguments for ring-fencing, saying they could see merit in both sides of the debate.
Melville’s comments that ring-fencing can’t happen next spring show that he may well be ...