NOW for the good news. While PRL’s beleaguered chief executive Darren Childs broadcast that he wanted the Premiership to lead the way with Rugby Union in England being the first sport played after the lockdown, New Zealand went ahead and did it.
Not just a bit ahead of the Premiership, but by two clear months, with Super Rugby Aeotearoa kicking off this weekend with Warren Gatland’s Chiefs visiting the Highlanders in Dunedin, and the Blues – with new signing Beauden Barrett – facing his former franchise, the Hurricanes in Auckland.
New Zealand, which has a population...