THIRTY Welsh rugby clubs are ‘teetering on the brink of extinction’ as the game lurches towards the bleakest of winters. The worsening crisis is being blamed not solely on Covid-19 but on a ‘huge disconnect’ between the WRU hierarchy and the impoverished community game.
“A record number of clubs are folding,’’ says Aberavon Quins secretary Stuart Broad. “There are so many clubs teetering on the brink of extinction. Playing numbers have fallen massively with catastrophic consequences.’’
Another prominent club official r...