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Nick Cain: Rifts widen as franchise plan set to go ahead

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.
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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 until 2030, and probably far beyond.
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