AMI alone at being dismayed at some of the arguments being used to support ring-fencing (Stephen Rodgers, Jan 27).
His reasoning that the gap is getting wider between tiers is precisely the reason it should be avoided. For some years a type of ring-fencing has effectively been in operation anyway.
Initially teams didn’t have it confirmed they would be promoted until most of the better signings had been made by the other Premiership clubs.
By then it was too late to scrape together anything other than cannon fodder.
Poor London Welsh twice had to fight tooth and nail not to have promot...