This week’s letters: Powers-that-be must take action

I’ve watched in horror recently with the problems at Worcester and Wasps which is just the tip of the iceberg from my viewpoint.

Rugby has seemingly been on the road to disaster since it went professional and is I think on the point of no return if Worcester or Wasps go bust.

But little seems to be happening from those who run the sport. The game seems to revolve around the national team and club rugby ignored or not promoted. Someone at the top has to grasp the problems and issue a plan of action before clubs start to fall by the wayside with no return.

Les Wood

All I’m saying, Iain, is show me the money

MY letter, on which Iain Sharpe commented in his in last week’s TRP, did not baldly state that it is preposterous that Championship clubs could be anything other than semi-professional.

What I wrote was that “the idea that the bulk of second tier clubs can be other than semi-profesional is preposterous, unless new and sizeable sources of commercial revenue for the Championship can be found.”

Were there any substance in Iain’s argument that there should be a direct relationship between a country’s population and its ability to sustain professional rugby teams, then England‘s relatively large population would surely have allowed such additional revenues to have been easily found.

John Allanson

Mockery for ban to include cup games

Sale Sharks prop Nic Schonert’s “three match” ban after his red card for a dangerous high tackle against Bath includes two Premiership Cup matches, both midweek games, and, notwithstanding Sale enjoying a fallow league weekend, I would suggest the chances of him ever playing in those Cup games in the first place were minimal at best.

I’m not sure what word to use: joke, mockery, take your pick.

Marlon Zoglowek