Saracens’ Nigel Wray demands end to ‘rank stupidity’ of rugby calendar
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• Chairman wants clubs to act over loss of players to internationals• Premiership treated as second-rate product to Six Nations, says WrayThe Saracens chairman, Nigel Wray, wants the rugby calendar to be changed so that the clubs and England play at different times. He described the current system, whereby Premiership sides lose their international players for three months every season, an “absolute nonsense”.Saracens had gone into the new year unbeaten, but welcomed back their England grand slam-winning quintet for Saturday’s match against Exeter having dropped from first to second in the tab…





