WHEN Saracens were last relegated in 1993, they lost half their first-team squad and it took two seasons to regain top-flight status.
This time it doesn’t feel like a rebuilding exercise, just a season of inconvenience sat on English rugby’s naughty step – otherwise known as the RFU Championship – as penance for their salary cap misdemeanours.
Bookmakers Paddy Power make them 1/5 favourites ahead of Ealing (7/2) and it’s 25/1 bar the rest, to take the title.
Leading lights like Ben Earl and Max Malins have gone on loan, captain courageous Brad Barritt has ...