Premiership

You can win things with kids if they get a chance

by
The Rugby Paper Team
17 February 2019

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NICK CAIN

ONE of the biggest falsehoods being peddled in the promotion/relegation debate is the idea that you cannot develop young players in a competition as fiercely contested as the Premiership.
The theory adopted by some club owners and coaches that the top league prohibits the introduction of inexperienced players because they will make a team more relegation-prone is a blatant distortion that does not stand up to scrutiny.
Earlier this season Bristol’s head coach Pat Lam offered this explanation of why he wants to end promotion/relegation: ...

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