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Yorkshire, the great under-achievers

A GENERATION ago, Coventry were the leading club in England, providing a stream of Test players, and providing most of the members of a Warwickshire which won a string of County Championships.
Yorkshire and Cornwall had strong county sides, both with a smattering of internationals, and included players who would be nowhere near today’s Premiership standard. Now those two counties’ top clubs, Cornish Pirates and Doncaster, are in a Championship from which promotion to the Premiership has been scrapped. And the RFU has failed to maintain a proper County Championship which ...

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