Regardless of who emerges victorious in the Premiership final on Saturday, the champions will be the fifth different winners of the league in the past five years. That tells me that for all the problems the Premiership has encountered in recent times, there are reasons to be positive. That unpredictability is such a key selling point in our league, coming off the back of a period of dominance by Saracens and, to a lesser extent, Exeter.
It should go without saying that I wish we hadn’t reached a situation, in the manner that we did, whereby there are 10 teams in the league but the reality is there is now a far greater concentration of quality. The division of that quality across the league is so much better and as a result the competition – Newcastle notwithstanding – is much better. That is what sets the Premiership apart.
