Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Help Support The Rugby Forum :
Forums
Rugby Union
General Rugby Union
Leeds Tykes
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Rob The Titan" data-source="post: 94607"><p>But Norhtern Lad.....</p><p></p><p>The benefactor behind the Pasties has said that even if they finish top they will take the parachute payment?! They are having all kinds of problems finding a ground apparently.</p><p></p><p>They would have been better off staying at Penzance and developing there.</p><p></p><p>As for Roth I'd be very (pleasantly!!) surprised if we finished top but you're wrong in that the RFU (and perhaps more importantly, Premier Rugby) DO NOT want us to go up. They made that perfectly clear a few years ago when they wouldn't let us up. I can understand why because we simply do not get the crowds and we don't have a big money man to buy the start names needed to improve the attendances significantly.</p><p></p><p>Doesn't make it right though, and I agree, you could argue that ring-fencing is already there with the parachute payment geared up to getting the relegated team back up there at the expense of the ambitious Nat1 Clubs. That sucks by the way!!! All this about not having the parachute payment ruining the relegated club is absolute tosh, Nat1 sides only £200k out of the RFU deal and most of us don't have enormous benefactors that are rife in the Prem!!!</p><p></p><p>I also agree they want franchising and I'm afraid it's an inevitability now Andrew's the England boss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob The Titan, post: 94607"] But Norhtern Lad..... The benefactor behind the Pasties has said that even if they finish top they will take the parachute payment?! They are having all kinds of problems finding a ground apparently. They would have been better off staying at Penzance and developing there. As for Roth I'd be very (pleasantly!!) surprised if we finished top but you're wrong in that the RFU (and perhaps more importantly, Premier Rugby) DO NOT want us to go up. They made that perfectly clear a few years ago when they wouldn't let us up. I can understand why because we simply do not get the crowds and we don't have a big money man to buy the start names needed to improve the attendances significantly. Doesn't make it right though, and I agree, you could argue that ring-fencing is already there with the parachute payment geared up to getting the relegated team back up there at the expense of the ambitious Nat1 Clubs. That sucks by the way!!! All this about not having the parachute payment ruining the relegated club is absolute tosh, Nat1 sides only £200k out of the RFU deal and most of us don't have enormous benefactors that are rife in the Prem!!! I also agree they want franchising and I'm afraid it's an inevitability now Andrew's the England boss. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Rugby Union
General Rugby Union
Leeds Tykes
Top