Premiership salary cap: how would rugby union look without it? | Paul Rees

Saracens will need a 75% majority if the salary cap is to be abolished and as yet no other clubs have publicly backed them but the rugby union landscape in England would vastly differ if they were successful• Saracens’ attempt to end salary cap looks set to failA day after Saracens had sent a shockwave through Premiership Rugby by saying they were going to propose at a shareholders’ meeting in February that the salary cap be abolished, they showed the difference money can make by romping to a 71-point victory over London Welsh.Never mind the salary cap, London Welsh, as a promoted team with on…