Newcastle call for end to relegation as Premiership basement battle hots up

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Never have so few points separated so many top-flight teams but financial implications for those shunted downwards grow more serious each year

Back in September everyone predicted this would be a different kind of Premiership season. They were not wrong. Never have so few points separated so many teams or so much rested on such small margins. Like a murder mystery weekend in a creaking Gothic mansion, no one knows quite who to trust with six rounds to go.

With one club destined to drop into the Championship, could it be that bottom-placed Newcastle will escape? Alternatively, might Worcester disappear through the trapdoor? Or will some other as yet unsuspected plotline unfold, with even 40 points insufficient to guarantee survival?

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Written by Robert Kitson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/22/newcastle-relegation-premiership-rugby-union under the title “Newcastle call for end to relegation as Premiership basement battle hots up”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.