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<blockquote data-quote="BPM" data-source="post: 1003382" data-attributes="member: 59968"><p>Yes. I agree with this. Rugby as a sport has been it's own worst enemy. In the pursuit of trying to 'grow' (i.e. commercialise) the game, they've tried to behave like football clubs with a fraction of the fan base, infrastructure and money.</p><p></p><p>Player salaries have inflated to such an unsustainable scale that operating at a loss is pretty much inevitable even for clubs that can fill their stadia for every home game.</p><p></p><p>I don't blame the players for making hay while the sun was shining but now it's chucking it down, I don't know how much sympathy I'd have were they to follow up on their threats of strike action from the first round of COVID related cuts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BPM, post: 1003382, member: 59968"] Yes. I agree with this. Rugby as a sport has been it’s own worst enemy. In the pursuit of trying to ‘grow’ (i.e. commercialise) the game, they’ve tried to behave like football clubs with a fraction of the fan base, infrastructure and money. Player salaries have inflated to such an unsustainable scale that operating at a loss is pretty much inevitable even for clubs that can fill their stadia for every home game. I don’t blame the players for making hay while the sun was shining but now it’s chucking it down, I don’t know how much sympathy I’d have were they to follow up on their threats of strike action from the first round of COVID related cuts. [/QUOTE]
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