The RFU declined to comment but is thought to be keen to explore every opportunity to save the club from going into extinction, in a traumatic season that has already seen Wasps and Worcester Warriors go to the wall. “Naturally the IRFU is saddened by what has happened at the club and hope that the club’s difficulties can be resolved sometime in the future.” “The RFU has informally kept the IRFU updated on the situation at London Irish,” said an IRFU spokesperson. It is understood that the discussions have been limited to preliminary soundings, given the strong bond and relationship between the two unions and the complexities involved if the IRFU was to consider some involvement in what would be a phoenix club after London Irish on Tuesday was forced to file for administration.īoth unions confirmed that talks had taken place, although for now it remains at a hypothetical stage, with the IRFU, in a statement to Telegraph Sport, diplomatically saying it had “no plans currently to invest in rugby outside of Ireland.” The informal talks are thought to have been prompted by the IRFU’s publicly stated desire to create more playing opportunities for the bottleneck of talent within the Irish academy. Exploratory discussions are understood to have taken place between senior officials at the Rugby Football Union and their Irish counterparts in relation to London Irish, Telegraph Sport can reveal.
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