COLIN Boag’s article graphically exposes the fault-lines in English rugby.
He writes that ‘he has believed for a long time that a schism between the professional game and the lower echelons is inevitable’.
Thanks to the new Premiership ring fence, such a schism already exists, and if the Rugby Football Union does nothing to rectify the situation, it will become permanent.
For one of the regular correspondents, in probably the most widely read weekly paper in England devoted entirely to rugby, to make such comments needs an urgent response from the RFU before those ...