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Nick Cain: Backing of franchise rugby is myopic, hypocritical and self-serving …

Nick Cain:

The parallel universe which some of the main movers and shakers in the RFU/ Premiership currently inhabit has revealed itself in several chaotic snapshots of English rugby union over the past 10 days.
This has been illustrated best by their attempt to stampede the English club game towards accepting a closed-shop franchise system at the top end, with Exeter’s beleaguered main backer, Tony Rowe, joining Bath owner Bruce Craig, and RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney, in extolling its hollow virtues.
It’s likely that another troop of Premiership propagandists is being lined up to tell us that, wi...

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