Relegation becomes live issue as Premiership Rugby plots next course | Paul Rees

Premiership now wants an end to relegation with Championship clubs hardly fit to make the jump upThe Saracens chairman, Nigel Wray, reflected in his programme notes for the Premiership match against Harlequins at the Olympic Stadium last weekend that he had been involved in professional rugby since its inception in 1995.“We are still facing the same problems we were 23 years ago,” he wrote. “England and the Premiership clubs are both trying to play at the same time on many occasions throughout the season. There has been 23 years of massive investment by the clubs to take the game where it is t…