This law is an ass!
YOU recently reported Bath's interest in South Africa fly-half Handre Pollard.
In the same issue you showed Bath as having lost Freddie Burns, England flyhalf in the fine victory over the All Blacks a few years back – with his equally- talented brother, Billy also lost to English clubs.
Both were Bathraised and just the sort of talent Bath should be developing and featuring every Saturday.
Every year the number of Englishqualified players goes down and Premiership clubs look more like United Nations XVs. Why pay pasttheir- best overseas players when our own nationals can supply the talent needed? It isn't as though sides packed with overseas players win trophies, look at Leicester! We must treble the subsidy given to clubs for achieving a certain percentage of England- qualified players In match-day squads.
