Allowing Wasps move reflects badly on RFU
SEVERAL years ago, Wasps relocated to Coventry, thereby sabotaging any hopes which Coventry rugby club may have had about reaching the Premiership. Even if the ring-fence is rescinded, Coventry is not big enough to sustain two Premiership clubs.
Wasps have now gone belly up, so the RFU's decision to allow a Premiership club to relocate to a different area purely to suit their own selfish ends, regardless of the consequences to clubs already in that area, has blown back in their faces.
Now Wasps should be in the dock for a second time. In last Sunday's TRP, Paul Rees contrasts how a few years ago the little Kent club Old Elthamians had been relegated to the base of the league pyramid following financial problems, whereas Wasps have only been demoted to the Championship following similar ‘offences'. The contrast stinks.
■ In last weekend's edition you stated that Old Elthamians were relegated to the bottom tier after going bust, they were placed in Kent 3, Level 9 and in fact there is a Kent 4, Level 10. This has caused quite a bit of a stir in some of the Kent lower clubs that they were not dropped to the bottom tier.
