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Freddie Burns blasts Premiership schedule and questions rugby's commitment to player welfare

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Former England star Freddie Burns has launched a scathing attack on rugby bosses for the ‘brutal’ fixture list being imposed on the country’s top players.

Premiership Rugby chief Darren Childs claims “every single club is absolutely on board and totally supportive” of a schedule which will require clubs to play seven games in four weeks when the league restarts.

But Burns, who is between clubs having left Bath and signed to play in Japan, described the revised schedule as “madness”. “First and foremost we all want rugby to survive and we want to do what we can to make sure that in a couple of years’ time there is still a Premiership and that those clubs steeped in history are still around,” he said. “But I am speaking out because the

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