RFU and Premiership close to securing new England player agreement

• Details of deal, which will run until 2020, to be agreed in next six weeks• Six Nations consider inviting Georgia and Romania to under-20s competition Twickenham is on course to secure a new England player agreement with the Premiership clubs by the end of the season after the Rugby Football Union’s council accepted the broad terms of the deal.The current agreement runs out at the end of June. Signed in 2008, it was worth £110m and gave the England head coach guaranteed access to players outside official international windows and by its end was worth £180,000 per player to the clubs. Related…