As Saracens will discover when they drop into the Championship next season, there are two types of professional rugby player: the haves and the have-nots. The gap between the Premiership and Championship was wide enough already before the Rugby Football Union turned it into a chasm with Wednesday’s announcement that funding to the second tier would be slashed from next season. Life was already hard for players and clubs; now many fear it will be nigh on impossible to continue in their current form.
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Written by Will Hooley
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/12/rugby-union-championship-justin-blanchet-canada-bedford-blues under the title “‘Players wonder whether it’s all worth it’: life in rugby union’s Championship”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
