THI SECRET PLAYER

SO IT'S the summer holidays for us pro rugby players right now, but before we left for our two-week all-inclusives in Mallorca, a Love Island-style bombshell was dropped on club rugby in the shape of R360.

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This breakaway super league has been proposed by Mike Tindall and some yet-unknown American millionaires. Like you, we as players are not exactly swimming in details of what this new franchise-based league looks like and what impact it could have on your beloved club rugby, but I have heard a few rumblings in the long corridors of the training ground.

Firstly, rather than it being an open forum, the chat on R360 has been awfully secret squirrel so far - little groups gossiping over breakfast. The group conversations in the changing rooms have been around understanding how this might impact us in the day-to-day because honestly, we don’t have much of a clue.