LEICESTER Tigers, still considered to be the best supported club in English rugby if you exclude “big game” attendances, have posted a £4.5m loss in their 2026 Annual Report. Yet, at the same time, we have Simon Massie-Taylor, the chief executive of Prem rugby spinning the line that all is well in the ring-fenced 10-club league, and that, “in the next five years we would expect the vast majority of the clubs to move into the black”.
This forecast was made despite the nine other Prem clubs expected to make losses this season, adding to a combined debt mountain estimated recently to be in the re...