Rugby: Axing of A Championship a mistake

CLIVE WOODWARD isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but it is difficult to disagree with his view that it was a mistake to axe the Six Nations A International Championship.

Woodward is, of course, in the happy position of having a plethora of players from which to choose his best side and obviously would like to see those on the fringes in action at as high a level as possible.

He takes the other nations to task for using finance as an excuse to end the series and again he is surely on the right lines when saying: "This is a backward step and I can't believe the money isn't there for teams to play in it."