WHAT a surprise (not!) that Ealing and Doncaster have their promotion pathway blocked by the RFU.
Are the RFU in collusion with the Premiership clubs to ring-fence the top tier to the further detriment of the national team?
At least it gives all of the overseas players in the Premiership a nice boost to their pensions.
The Premiership needs more competition not less and we can kiss goodbye to serious participation in the next few World Cups.
Silly me, I thought the idea was to grow the game – obviously not. And obviously a successful national team isn’t important to get n...