Why spend if academy system works so well?

Expensive import: Stormers back row Juarno Augustus is set to join Northampton
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IT SEEMS to me that Premiership Rugby has got rather too full of its own importance.
The moratorium on promotion and relegation as is proposed is likely to be in place for an additional four years. We are told it is to ensure the sustainability of the professional game.
I would have thought by now that they would have realised that, in its present form, it will only be sustainable if the injections of cash from the RFU continues. Without it, every business or club would ...

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