I TOTALLY agree with the comments from Martin Hothersall last week but I think we need to look at why playing budgets are so high and be honest.
Playing budgets are the biggest issue faced by RU Clubs at Level 3 and below, as ‘true’ Community Clubs struggle to survive at a certain level because the market for players is continually distorted and inflated by over financed ‘teams’ who put nothing back into the game.
This has been a problem for some time and will continue to be so if not addressed by the RFU.
Proper Community Clubs have the expense of running a rugby cl...