Courtney Lawes has called on English rugby to find leaders capable of reversing the sport’s decline.
London Irish are teetering on the brink of becoming the third Premiership club this season to go bust, after Worcester and Wasps.
The Northampton star has given the ailing club game a fillip by bucking the trend of stars moving overseas and joining Manu Tuilagi in staying put. But carnage elsewhere in the top-flight has him demanding joined-up thinking from the administrators before it is too late.
