I DON’T think Colin Boag has taken his ring-fencing argument far enough.
Surely, Scotland, with its two Champions Cup qualifying teams has given us an unbeatable model for club rugby, so let’s try to move the ringfence a bit to get there.
London Irish have yo-yoed for too long, they’re out. Similarly Newcastle look ripe for the drop so that’s them out, and Worcester and Bristol are prerenial mid-table teams. Out.
Sale v Northhampton got only 5,290 punters through the gate, they’re gone.
Next we have the point about how players being developed in the Championshi...