Championship Play-Offs Set To Be Scrapped

The controversial Championship play-offs are set to be discarded as part of a new £220m, eight-year agreement between Premiership Rugby and the RFU, according to The Rugby Paper. As first reported in April, the new deal will see top-flight clubs double their existing £110m RFU funding deal which was brokered in 2008. Academy boundary disputes involving Wasps, Worcester, London Irish and Saracens have been resolved and Premiership Rugby’s desire to bin the Championship play-offs in favour of a straight first past the post system has been agreed. Some Championship clubs were keen to retain the t…