Brendan Gallagher

Staying in the game is what matters most

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The Rugby Paper Team
16 October 2022

RUGBY MATTERS
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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Like all of you out there, I have endless sympathy for the players caught up in the meltdown currently being enacted at Worcester and Wasps and, yes, I do accept that Covid came at a bad time for club rugby and has made life very tricky. It’s been a right bastard.
But let’s not fool ourselves that the Premiership, financially, was anything other than a financial basket case long before Covid, after decades of mismanagement.
I can remember doing a big ‘rugby isn’t working’ investigation for the Daily Telegrap...

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