I AM chairman of Eccleshall RUFC, a small community rugby club in Staffordshire.
I have tried to highlight to the powers that be that they, I suspect inadvertently, have taken away a significant fundraising opportunity for our club and I suspect many other clubs by scheduling no Premiership games in the Midlands/North West between Christmas and New Year.
Eccleshall RUFC and many others are fortunate to have five Premiership clubs within an hour and a half of us (Sale, Wasps, Worcester, Northampton and Leicester) and for a number of years we have run a successful Christmas trip to a Premiers...