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Funding the Premiership could destroy our game

JEFF PROBYN

A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

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Last week’s front page outlining the RFU’s plans to cut funds to the grassroots of the game should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the history of the game since the dawn of professionalism.
I cannot count the number of times that I have foretold that this was an inevitable consequence of the way the RFU deal with both sections of the game, amateur and professional.
All the professi...

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