";s:4:"text";s:5790:" They have cheated. And I’m just a bit upset it has taken so long to do this. However, the issue is whether those players would be fit and conditioned for Test rugby.Perhaps they'd be better rested as a result. In spite of the £5.36 million fine, the 35-point deduction and the difficulties I knew Saracens would have in complying with the salary cap this year, it is somehow still shocking that the five-time Premiership and three-time Champions Cup winners have been relegated to … Gallagher Premiership Rugby have announced that two-time defending champion Saracens will be relegated from the Premiership at the end of the 2019-20 season. Could Saracens' England internationals Owen Farrell and Maro Itoje play for the club in the Championship next season?
So it was their choice not to open up their books.“Premiership Rugby – all the chairmen – we just want to move on.
Saracens will be relegated from the Gallagher Premiership at the end of the 2019-20 season.
Saracens will be relegated from the top flight of English rugby at the end of the 2019/20 season, Premiership Rugby has announced. We understand this decision will be difficult for the Saracens family to accept.“The board must embody the values of the club, learn from its mistakes so the club can come back stronger. It is in the wider interests of the Premiership and English rugby to take this decisive step, to ensure everybody is able once again to focus on the game of rugby, which we all love.“We hope that we can now start to move forward, begin to restore confidence and over time, rebuild trust with PRL, its stakeholders and the wider rugby community.”Saracens will compete in the Premiership through to the end of the current 2019-20 season and even though there is no salary cap in the Championship, will have to present their books for scrutiny before being allowed back up.The reigning European champions, the winners of four league titles in the last five years, are still in the Champions Cup running. We have got some time to plan for a new era, a new journey, and that is the optimistic way of looking at it. But domestically, they are now set for English rugby union’s second tier alongside clubs such as Ampthill, Jersey and Hartpury.Premiership Rugby’s chief executive, Darren Childs, said: “[We are] prepared to take strong action to enforce the regulations governing fair competition between our clubs.
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