The Premiership could be slimmed down to 10 teams as Simon Halliday pleads the case for a funded professional second tier to remain
Exclusive byhas been accused of deliberately running down the second-tier Championship with a view to reducing the number of professional teams in England. Championship clubs also predict no sides will be promoted to the Premiership for years to come despite the RFU’s continuing insistence it has no formal plans to ringfence the top league.
“It’s been purposefully driven into the ground to make it easier to get rid of,” said Nick Johnston, Coventry’s chief executive. “I think there has been a premeditated approach over the past three years to cut our funding and put us on our knees.”
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