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What is the state of rugby?Is the game on the brink of expansion? Or is it on the brink of implosion?No game has undergone so traumatic a transformation since the turn of the century. The last of the major sports to embrace professionalism, rugby was propelled on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the limit in a drama compelling and appalling to behold. After a hundred years defying the future, rugby now shudders with the tu...

What is the state of rugby?Is the game on the brink of expansion?Or is it on the brink of implosion?No game has undergone so traumatic a transformation since the turn of the century. The last of the major sports to embrace professionalism, rugby was propelled on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the limit in a drama compelling and appalling to behold. After a hundred years defying the future, rugby now shudders with the tur...

The spectacle of rugby's integrity being threatened by economic and administrative pressures to a greater extent than any other sport is tackled in an irreverent and provocative fashion in this latest from Rugby Book of the Year winner (for "Beyond The Horizon") Mike Aylwin.