SO the Premiership name might have to go. Premiership Rugby now have a new “chief growth officer” called Rob Calder who has joined from the ECB.
Calder is quoted in The Times Ruck podcast: “As part of the relaunch we will consider the name, we’re speaking to broadcasters, players, to Gallagher about what they want from the league moving forward... We’ve got equity in the Premiership, people know what it is. Is it a bit too much like the football Premier League? Yeah, probably. If I was starting from scratch I probably wouldn’t call it the Prem...