Originally Posted by I love Ellie:
“It's about as fair as The Championship has been for the past several seasons. Promotion, no promotion, primacy of tenure, ground facilities etc.
They simply cannot stop dicking around with the rules in order to maintain the 'big' clubs in the Premiership.
Remember a few seasons ago, when Bath nearly came down? There was some sort of dodgy goings on to stop the Championship side going up if that happened. In the end it didn't and they were happy to let Leeds come down.
Cecil Duckworth's also had a pop about the Championship playoff structure. Hmm, he didn't seem concerned about it last season.”
I think English rugby needs a dramatic overhaul. You are dead right I remember the year you are talking about utter disgrace.
I actually believe we need regional rugby and centrally contracted players.
2 north of England teams.
3 midlands regions teams.
1 south east team.
1 team from each north, south, east and west London.
1 Cornish team.
1 team from Devon
3 South West covering Gloucester, Bath and Bristol.
Or something like that, controversial I know but if Wales can do it then so can England. Then we create a franchise with England players available to be be selected when needed.