ENDING promotion and relegation would place a “huge question mark” over Yorkshire Carnegie’s future, according to chief executive Gary Hetherington.
After seven seasons outside the top-flight, Carnegie’s A-share holding in Premiership Rugby expires at the end of this season and, having sold their P-share to Exeter for £5m in 2012, the Yorkshire side will no longer be entitled to a seat on PRL’s board.
Hetherington dismisses plans to ring-fence the topflight as speculation but, with RFU boss Stephen Brown admitting he is open-minded to change,...