COLIN Boag is right to flag up the potentially massive loophole in the new Premiership salary cap rules represented by provisions for marquee player exemptions.
This not only distorts the supposedly level playing field in favour of wealthier clubs, but encourages all clubs to continue to live beyond their means. This in turn means they will continue to fight tooth and nail to retain the massive subventions from the RFU, inevitably restricting the availability of funding for community rugby – both in terms of club facilities and central administrative support.
A further, inevitabl...