PREDICTABLY, the Six Nations establishment is adopting the “I’m alright, Jack, pull up the ladder” response to proposals for some form of world league competition – a line supported in this week’s Rugby Paper by both Colin Boag and Jeff Probyn.
But are the Six Nations countries at risk of repeating the Premiership’s current mistake of focussing only on protecting their privileged short term funding positions at the expense of the game’s and, ultimately, their own long-term interests?
The fundamental problem is that our game has far too small a suppo...