Champ P-O final

When you look at Ealing's games this season a lot of them were quite close at half time (this was certainly true when Pirates played them) then they overpowered the opposition in the second half. This was probably due to them having more depth in their squad than everyone else and were able to bring on high quality replacements. The tables were turned against Sarries who have international quality throughout. When Pirates beat Sarries in the first game they didn't have their six nations men, even though they still had 163 International caps in that squad. Pirates were almost at full strength and played out of their skins. As the season progressed we were decimated with injuries (especially in the backs) and didn't have the numbers in the squad to cope so lost a couple of games as a result. This, no doubt, was true for other clubs and with Covid, no income etc, it was always going to be hard for anyone to upset Ealing or Sarries. 

I am not sure how you can compare the two.

One is complete mismanagement of a situation by a bunch of geriatrics with too much interest in gin, leading to the pointless waste of millions - and the other is the First World War.

Now leaves Championship with 11 clubs. So ten home games, if a cup competition occurs, one group would be three not four, and RFU funding slashed.

Begs the question, are we elite or community?

If the latter, when did (without wanting to be misogynistic) become a lesser league to Premier 15s which I believe to be ‘elite’?

Totally agree, it's a travesty.

I was also baffled.

This season should not have happened under the circumstances. We all know it happened just to get Sarries promoted. I expected Saracens to stroll the tie over two legs but a 100 point deficit isn’t ideal for our league. Mind you Ealing can’t really be blamed for that when you see what they’re up against. It is my belief that relegating Saracens was a mistake and that, for the sake of the Championship, they should have been given some other punishment but still retained their Premiership place. I would have banned them from Europe for 3 years and in that time they would have had to operate under a reduced salary cap in comparison to the other Premiership sides. Sarries would have still stayed up with this punishment because there’s a lot of teams at the bottom that don’t spend up to the cap anyway. 

If they have promotion and relegation next season, Ealing must be favourites for promotion.

Even if they enforce a play-off, I think Ealing would compete with this season's Worcester.

Ideally they would have no relegation next season, but promote one Championship side to make fourteen.

As then, I think Ealing could stay up and another side - possibly Pirates - would have a chance of promotion the following year.