suspended and sidelined, and the good old Barbarians suddenly among those riding to the rescue in the short-term.
With unwitting indelicacy, perhaps, Massie-Taylor, who joined PRL from the Rugby Football Union last year with Twickenham’s backing, said: “There’s lots of Cs floating around here.”Which he clarified as “one is the calendar, one is the cost base – which isn’t linked up to our commercial system, which isn’t as efficient as it should be. From a governance point of view, we have issues over what we can control and what we can’t. And we also have a huge amount of conflict.
They will not however be available for England selection after the World Cup. This does beg a question of fairness for a player such as Anthony Watson who reportedly took a pay cut to stay in the Premiership at Leicester.