December 26, 2024

England system is OK, just pick right players!

Probyn #Probyn

COLIN BOAG

In his column last week, Jeff Probyn bemoaned the deals struck by the RFU and the Premiership to allow the national side to have access to the best England-qualified players around. He suggested that the RFU should ‘start a development plan for another source of players outside of the Premiership’, something that I believe would have struck most people as rather odd – where would these players be found?The RFU could decide to field a team of Championship players, although that would be a prime case of cutting off their nose to spite their face, or I su…

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