frustration and defiance in the rugby championship
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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 ...