Ring-fence move must be rejected says Baron

FRANCIS Baron, the chief executive of the RFU when England won the 2003 World Cup, has urged the RFU Council to reject any proposal by the Board to suspend promotion and relegation.
Baron’s intervention comes ahead of a widely anticipated RFU Board proposal for the Council to vote on a game-changing three/four-year moratorium on promotionrelegation when it meets before the AGM on Friday, June 11.
Baron used his casting vote in 2003 to maintain promotion-relegation rather than support a PRL (Premiership) motion for its removal – and he is adamant that none of the arguments that were made t...

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