ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones says he is in the middle of a constant battle between Premiership clubs and the RFU. Nothing much has changed since rugby went open over 20 years ago.
So English rugby now has two choices.
It can either continue to follow the England football model with a Premiership dominated by half a dozen self-interested big clubs; with increasingly unaffordable wages; with players from all over the world taking the places of home-grown talent; with TV companies paying crazy sums in their clamour to screen matches to worldwide audiences; with the mistaken belief that theirs is ...