The thing I really object to is that the rugby authorities are rolling the pitch for Wasps to be admitted to the Championship.
The Premiership seems to want to achieve this by taking control of the Championship, making it the Premiership division 2, and running it on a franchise model so that they can control who plays in it.
This is totally wrong. Wasps went bust and as a rugby club it ceased to exist. The fact that the current owners of the new Wasps bought the right to the name doesn’t disguise the fact that it is a completely new club having nothing in common with the old one other than the name.
I don’t have a problem with anyone forming a new rugby club but it should, as the rugby authorities said at the time, start at the bottom of the pyramid. If in time they can work their way back to the top, by success on the playing field, then good luck to them. But it should be achieved by that means, not by being parachuted back into the Championship just because someone bought the naming rights.