Rugby Players’ Association (RPA) CEO Damian Hopley says the organisation is “doing all it can” to help members affected by the jobs crisis.
As one of the many services offered by the RPA, a confidential counselling hotline continues to take calls from anxious players left without a contract.
Hopley admits some of the stories are “harrowing” and that these are “desperate times” as players suffer the fall-out of the game being in a perilous financial position.
“The confidential counselling service has been in place for nearly two decades now and we definitely see spikes at this time of year ba...