The early days of co-habiting are usually frantic. There are arguments over whose stuff you keep and what goes where and you have to get used to existing in what was previously a space for one.
Over the winter, the eight new Tier One counties have been going through exactly that process.
Changing rooms have been re-furbished, training schedules altered and new messaging put out that there are two full professional sides at these clubs, under the same name and wearing the same shirt – well, at almost all.
There’s a sense that, beyond simply accommodating new sides, integration over assimil...