When the IRB announced that the Sanction ELV would not only be tried in a single competition, it signalled some hope.
If this turns out to be true (there is no word on the IRB website) then the most controverisal aspect of the ELV are dead in the water. The word from New Zealand is that players and referees are having trouble with the phyiscal requirement of playing a faster game. Furthermore, I can not see how the IRB could sanction a split in the Laws on geographic lines, given the consequences of the last time this happened.
So let is raise a glass to the "57 Old Farts" of the RFU for saving our game.
