As professional rugby is thrown into turmoil once again with Wasps Rugby announcing it is “likely” they will enter into administration “in the coming days”, Bristol Bears director of rugby Pat Lam has called for a league ‘commissioner’ to be appointed.
In another colossal blow for the English domestic game, following Worcester Warriors already being in administration and suspended from the Premiership for the rest of this reason, with relegation to the Championship to follow, Wasps have today cancelled their trip to face Exeter Chiefs on Saturday due to insufficient cash at this time to continue to fund operations until a buyer for the club is found. As a result the former Heineken Champions Cup winners have also been suspended from the Premiership.
Speaking before Wasps’ announcement, but with their troubling predicament at the Coventry-based club well-known, Lam called for Premiership Rugby to sort its act out and appoint a strong commissioner figure to whittle out the self-interest which makes the governance of the top flight game almost impossible.
