Ellis Genge demands urgent overhaul of ‘outdated, weird and mad’ rugby contracts

"You’ve still got contracts from 20 years ago. You can imagine some of the weird stuff written in them"

Ellis Genge boxes with the pads during a training session at Twickenham (

England prop Ellis Genge has called for rugby’s archaic contracts to be updated as a matter of urgency.

Genge has had to abandon plans to start a new players’ union called Rugby Players Epoch, an idea born out of the chaotic negotiations that took place in April when clubs enforced 25 per cent pay cuts on their squads.