SO Brendan Gallagher “smells stifling fear” in the reduced Premiership salary cap, but I disagree with his belief that the removal of all pay restrictions would produce “big bucks, high profile, celebrity players” to “cut across the entire sporting community”.
The profile of rugby’s top players is limited by the profile of the game and, if players like Charles Piutau, Joe Marler, Faf de Klerk, Marcus Smith and Jonny Wilkinson have been unable to transcend this, I don’t know who will.
The fact that the clubs have been unable to c...