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Rifts widen as franchise plan set to go ahead

NICK CAIN

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ATTEMPTS by Premiership club owners, and the RFU executive, headed by Bill Sweeney, to bounce English club rugby into an American franchise model of a ring-fenced top league will almost certainly be rubber-stamped at Friday’s RFU Council meeting at Twickenham. Whether the fall-out ends there is another matter.
It is a controversial landmark decision which divides English rugby, not least because a key adjunct is expected to be the suspension of a 38-year English merit-based promotion and relegation model, with no access to the Prem...

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