Tier Two grassroots need a boost, but so do ours in England

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NICK Cain is right to flag in his May 19 piece the importance to the future of rugby of bringing on Tier 2 rugby nations.
I would argue it is a distant second priority to the nurturing of the grassroots in established countries, notably, England, but the problem faced is that more funding is needed for both.
Structured as we are today, with the professional elites calling virtually all the shots, the vast proportion of the huge amount of revenue being generated wit...

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