THE fact that Premiership administrators are considering segregating away supporters demonstrates that people charged with managing the game have very little understanding or empathy with its fan base.
I have travelled throughout the UK, to France, Italy, New Zealand and Canada to watch this great game and have never felt the need to be segregated from home fans. I recall with great affection being one of just a handful of Wales fans in stadiums and bars in Dunedin, Auckland and Wellington where the engagement with the locals was positive, friendly and heart-warming. Sitting next to blue beret wearing Parisians, sharing wine with Florentines, laughing with Canucks, toasting Saffers and waltzing with Matilda’s are memories I will never forget.
And then some lunatics at the RFU wish to destroy the international and regional camaraderie that our great game espouses for some flawed notion that it may enhance the experience without understanding that you cannot improve what is already perfect and unique.
I note that an advocate for such change is Clive Woodward. That suggests to me that he has never truly engaged with the fans. It is an idiotic proposition and must be consigned to the dustbin of bad ideas immediately.
■ AT present a team can only have one tap and go from a penalty, which gives the team that has transgressed another opportunity to reset their defensive line. If this law was changed it would open up the field of play much more.
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