Premiership II plans announced

I seem to recall Reading used to supply most of the England hockey team.

RFU/Champ meeting was tense but civil, I heard. Jaw jaw not war war. So far. I believe they are going to sit down again soon and address the governance of the new league and then other thorny issues such as the minimum operating standards, funding and others will sort of follow on from that. Or, looked at another way, if you haven't got the governance sorted, nothing else can be done.   

I think the Championship clubs are relaxed about it - depends on whether there is a cup competition because at the end of the day, the number of games makes a difference to whether clubs, especially those who have players on fixed contracts, bring in enough revenue or not.

I think the RFU want 14 clubs in the league. Personally, I think 16 is the magic number, like Nat 1, and forget fake cup competitions. If something real arises, all well and good, but nothing that has been invented to fill a gap in competition schedules seems worth doing. 

Sorry, of course. It was 16 last time we were in it. 

Unless somebody was actually there, it's all conjecture.

Were Rams represented and were other National  One clubs present. 

A 14 team league, plus the Premiership Cup, would fill a season - especially if it runs into May.

It would also give four pools of six in the cup - which we assume would be in the Autumn International window and during the six nations.

So 31 games, plus potentiallly two knock out games.

While the Premiership would have 25 games plus whatever European games, this year it was four.