New Jersey rugby union experiment needs catalyst to get required reaction

London Irish v Saracens may not last half an hour on US television unless rugby union pulls its socks up and does so quicklyThis is a big week for rugby union and the Six Nations is only a modest part of it. The first Premiership game to be staged outside Britain is taking place in New Jersey on Saturday, with an American audience being politely invited to come and see how London Irish and Saracens compares with watching the New York Jets against the New England Patriots. To say a cultural collision looms is an understatement.It is fair, too, to suggest the timing could have been better. It is…