Ellis Genge wants radical change to rugby, starts heated debate

The Bristol Bears prop tweeted: "Seeing bottom of table Southampton beating Chelsea at their place even though they’ve spent mental money shows for me sporting leagues can still have competition without a constricted spending cap for every team."

Reacting to his tweet, one fan replied: "I think you are right to a certain extent. It depends on the spend gap between the top sides and bottom sides. Nobody has enjoyed seeing Man City win the league four times in the last five years."

A second commented: "I agree, I think capping a teams resources to suit the rest of the league is backwards. Granted it shouldn't be unlimited but we are going backwards losing more and more players overseas BUT at least we aren't Wales."

Another wrote: "Hallelujah! Name another sport that has a salary cap for one league yet expects its teams to also compete against others without one!"

Posting a very different opinion, one fan wrote: "Sorry to burst the bubble, Gengey, but when it comes to rugby union did you not notice that two Rugby Prem clubs recently crashed and burned, and the other Clubs are in various degrees of teetering on the tightrope across a financial Niagara Falls."

Another wrote: "Disagree if you’re implying rugby should remove the cap here. Unexpected results occur far more often in football than rugby - Stevenage beat Villa in the cup this year. An equivalent result wouldn’t happen in rugby."

They're good, fantastic in fact. However, whenever just fans and players sing an anthem on their own it feels a lot more epic. Listen to this example of Wales singing their anthem as evidence enough...

Very easy to police, very easy to see, but so often missed. Be harsh, cut it out, penalise the guilty parties and nip it in the bud. Once and for all, please.

Many fans have to pay ridiculous amounts just to see their team in action for 80 minutes, added to the extra costs of stadium food and drink as well as programmes.

I am not a monster trying to impose prohibition on match days when they return, but this is still an issue.

Alcohol has a long, glorious association with rugby. But at times, that relationship seems to have tilted too far away from the sport itself.

Whenever I attend internationals (not club matches), whole rows seem to be constantly going up and down with people either heading to the bar or unable to hold their bladder.

Not only is that spoiling the enjoyment for everyone having to stand up, but it is disrespecting the players' efforts on the pitch.

At the theatre, people are not allowed back in to the performance until the interval. A similar rule should be introduced in the Six Nations.

Let's open the Six Nations up and get Georgia or Romania involved. Italy have had enough time to become genuine contenders and they simply haven't done it. Italy lose every week and don't play particularly entertaining rugby. Do the same with The Rugby Championship to let the Pacific Islands have a chance.