LAST week’s Rugby Paper lists next season’s National League fixtures.
Among the titbits served up by the RFU’s Competitions Committee for the opening weekend in National 1 are Chinnor, in Oxfordshire, versus faraway Darlington Mowden Park from the north-east, and Leicester Lions v Blackheath.
The gate for promotion-winning Leicester Lions’ game against Stourbridge in National 2 West on April 1 was 127, while Chinnor’s for their home fixture against Cambridge a week earlier was also well under 500. What would Leicester Lions’ crowd have been i...