BATH captain Dan Lyle has demanded that English rugby's administrators get a grip on the professional game.

The American international watched in dismay this week as the latest 'will they-won't they' fiasco surrounding the Zurich Premiership relegation issue rumbled on.

Even though the verdict on Rotherham's elevation worked in his own club's favour, Lyle reckons all the confusion and uncertainty is killing fans' enthusiasm.

And the back row claims its about time the game's chiefs provided a stable structure, rather than one that is constantly being chopped and changed.

"If the league wants to be a viable professional league, it has got to make sound decisions and work on a structure,'' said Lyle.

"Most people don't know what's going on, there are only a few people that do.

"They know who they are and I hope that at the end of the season, they will take some accountability and put the groundwork in place for it to change.

"They have got to stand up and make the changes.''

Yesterday's news that Rotherham would not be joining the top flight robbed fans of an exciting final weekend of action, with Bath, Saracens and Leeds all battling to beat the drop.

Lyle added: "We need to have a crescendo at the end of the year and they need to give us a season that means something because we can't run a professional game like this.

"We're too infantile in professional sport to think that people make correct and rational decisions all of the time.

"But we're playing too many games with too many diverging competitions and nobody is looking at player burn-out.''

"Players' concerns are being ignored and the players' concerns are fans' concerns.

"They want a high impact game that means something and benefits the national system.''

Lyle leads his side for ths final time this season against Wasps on Sunday but the game now has little importance thanks to the edict handed down yesterday.

With Bath free from the shadow of relegation, the one outstanding issue is whether the London club can force their way into Heineken Cup contention.

To the relief of team director Michael Foley, Bath have no new injury problems, although they are once again set to be without England stars Iain Balshaw and Mike Tindall.

That leaves Foley with little option but to pitch in youngsters such as Sam Cox, Alex Crockett, Gareth Delve, Gareth Knox and Spencer Davey into the fray.