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Amateur game in need of extra help

“PLEASE Sir! Can I have some more?” Oliver Twist’s plaintive cry in Dickensian times. Now, in the 21st century it is the community clubs that hold out their bowls as they hope that the RFU will heed their call for greater financial support.
The game’s revenue comes mainly from international ticket sales and monies from TV rights, but the game at the highest level is a hungry beast.
Ground maintenance, wages and maintaining the technical equipment required at the highest level comes at a cost. Ironically, it is the hi-tech equipment, such as the Television ...

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