AS the concerted campaign against funding cuts for Championship clubs has shown, the RFU are sensitive to outside pressures.
There are many, many more community clubs with a far stronger case for financial support from Twickenham and it is vital that we all become much more active and vociferous in stating our cases publicly.
It is not a given – as Jeff Probyn wrote last week – that clubs have to cut the number of teams they field so as to invest in a league worthy first team. Look at Ampthill, Rams, Chinnor, my own club, Bishop’s Stortford and others, all of them putting ...