NICK CAIN
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ARE Ealing Trailfinders finally about to break the grip of an RFU-backed Premiership cartel which has now used ground criteria to block the Championship club’s promotion ambitions for two seasons in succession?
There are only two avenues available to Ealing after Monday’s RFU announcement that its shadowy Professional Game Board (PGB) quango deemed the club had failed the Premiership’s protectionist ‘minimum standards criteria’.
Ealing can either try to mount a successful challenge to the Premiership/RFU ring-fencing regulations in law, bringi...