How can rugby prevent a lost generation amid the Covid crisis? | Robert Kitson

The RFU must provide guidance and vision as concerns grow that the community game is being unduly penalised to protect the over-fattened cats at the topThere is a paragraph within Edward Griffiths’ thought-provoking 76-page proposal for a radical revamp of English rugby that says it all. “When historians reflect on the development of English rugby since the start of professionalism in 1995, they will surely wonder why so much time and energy was wasted on narrow-minded in-fighting,” writes the former Saracens chief executive. “Rugby union in England is neither rich enough nor large enough to b…