Paul Rees canvasses the views of Premiership directors of rugby and finds there is a fair amount of optimism
IT IS another year the professional game in England will wave away with relief. If not quite the annus horribilis of 2022 when Worcester and Wasps folded and England sacked head coach Eddie Jones after two underwhelming years, a series of aftershocks saw the demise of London Irish and Jersey Reds.
The year started with a withering attack on the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby by a Department of Culture, Media and Sport committee which had launched an inquiry into the circu...