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Ealing can’t be blamed if they look to the URC

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The Rugby Paper Team
16 November 2025

EALING Trailfinders could be forgiven for adopting the old Millwall FC chant, “No one likes us, we don’t care”.
The west London club have been forsaken by the RFU, its governing body, by being denied multiple promotions from the Championship to the Premiership, always on the basis that they do not meet the ground criteria to be promoted.
Last season this was because, even though their Vallis Way ground meets the 5,000 capacity required in the first year of promotion, they had not acquired the planning permission required four years in advance for it to have a 10,...

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