Should the Premiership scrap relegation? - The Rugby Pod discuss

Freddie Burns stood in for Rugby Pod regular Andy Goode this week, providing some great insight to life at Bath amongst other things. We did however have Goode on the phone to provide his opinion on the speculation about the Premiership eventually becoming ring-fenced, removing the possibility of relegation from the league.

Goode spoke extensively about how relegation makes almost every game in the regular season into a spectacle, citing how attendances in Super Rugby have dropped when the games played have nothing to really be played for.

Burns however offered another side to the argument, claiming that it would unfair on Championship sides to have to face an unusually strong outfit.

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