frustration and defiance in the rugby championship
Almost everyone in English club rugby agrees on one thing. It cannot continue like this. The system, if that's the right word for the teetering pile of Jenga bricks supporting a cash-strapped 10-team Premiership, is broken and a planned eight-year deal between the Rugby Football Union and the club's leading owners is seen as the most important - needed long-term answer.
That's fine, except for one basic detail. As things stand, it doesn't do anything for anyone else. Talk to people in the second-tier championship and there is frustration, defiance and gallows humor in about equal parts after years of ...