Rugbycoach11
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Thoughts on clubs below premiership paying women to play, and would you move club if they did?
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It's a professional sport, so long as it doesn't break competition rules, and is sustainable for the club, then go for it.
Guessing it's down the club, chair and committee. Up to them to decide. If it's beer tokens like most amateur clubs can't see the problem or if it's to attract better players and progress.
Considering the men's game is not sustainable, I'd be worried if the woman's game just followed suit. I can't understate how worried I am about the men's game as it is.
Salaries in the men's game are unsustainable because they're too high* - not because they exist.
* Even then, IMO, it's not necessarily that player salaries are too high, but that owners insist on more extra spending than they need to.
If you're annual budget is £20M, and your playing budget is £6-7M - you have other expenses that can also be looked at.
* Even then, IMO, it's not necessarily that player salaries are too high, but that owners insist on more extra spending than they need to.
If you're annual budget is £20M, and your playing budget is £6-7M - you have other expenses that can also be looked at.
I think for me salaries are difficult to compare in rugby as a whole vs other sports due to the short length of the career, the toll it takes on the body and the fact it can end in an instant.
It almost makes a £50k a year rugby salary not worth it (for example) because you are screwing yourself down the line.
But then paying them while they still have other jobs/ uni etc is a good thing.
But, only if the money comes purely from the revenue they generate, if clubs start paying woman's rugby out of their own revenue generate by men's rugby (which is loss making) I'd be annoyed. But paying wages reflected in the revenue they raised while also keeping them in work/ uni at the same time for their long term future seems smart.
