On Tuesday night Premiership Rugby moved to cement Saracens’ relegation by announcing changes to its salary cap regulations, enabling it to deduct Saracens a further 70 points on top of the 35 they were docked in November. “This was always going to be a very short-term appointment, and others are well-placed to drive forward the rebuilding of the club,” Griffiths said. Griffiths’s return to Saracens marked a change in the club’s position towards being found guilty of breaching the salary cap. When Premiership Rugby first announced that the champions would be fined £5.36m and docked 35 points in November, Saracens reacted angrily and pledged to appeal against the sanctions. The two changes to the salary cap regulations have been made with that refusal in mind.

Source: The Irish Times January 29, 2020 08:33 UTC