England on trail of £2m bonus
February 4, 2002

England's opening Six Nations Championship win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday has put them on course for a £2 million Grand Slam pay-out.

The Evening Standard has reported that the package on offer to captain Martin Johnson and his team, will put themselves in line for an £80,000-a-man windfall if they can clinch five Championship victories.

Sources have confirmed that besides a £1.6m deal brokered by Premier Rugby Partnership there is an extra £350,000 on the table from the Rugby Football Union.

The PRP deal takes into account the three pre-Christmas international wins over Australia, Romania and South Africa.

The RFU money has pushed the total to nearly £2m and the majority of that money would remain on offer even if England fail to win the Slam but become the Six Nations champions for the third successive year.

Success on the pitch is the only way the England players can hit the £80,000 mark and any defeats would mean that sum would drop down by around £10,000 per loss.

A new television contract for the Six Nations would boost the income of all the competing Unions and the RFU has already earmarked a slice for the top players.

That could see Martin Johnson's men collecting £100,000 a season by the time the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is staged.

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