I HAVE every sympathy with my old friend Simon Halliday, the outgoing Chairman of the Championship Board, and the Championship clubs having read his comments in Nick Cain’s article in TRP last Sunday. The late changes to the agreement between the Championship Board and the Professional Rugby Board (PRB) apparently on the subject of ground capacity, represent an attempt to exclude some Championship and in future some National 1 clubs from ever achieving promotion or alternatively show a complete lack of understanding of the current planning system in the UK and how it will affect...