A NUMBER of items from last week’s Rugby Paper show the mess English rugby is in. It’s becoming a regular feature.
Neale Harvey outlined plans put forward by Saracens’ former CEO, Edward Griffiths, about a new ‘Heartland’ competition for clubs outside the Premiership, with its own representative (county or divisional) teams, and with no straightforward link to clubs in the top league.
If English rugby was officially split in two - the Premiership and the rest - that would be a disaster. The undeserving Premiership clubs would have got their wish to be totally s...