RFU Financial Woes

[outwoodclaret]

With the imminent collapse of Wasps set to follow on from Worcester Warriors going into administration I am left wondering just how Premiership Rugby’s ongoing crisis will affect EFL clubs who share the same ownership or stadiums? Worcester Warrior owners Colin Goldring and Jason Whittingham have stepped down from the board of Bond Group who own League One Club Morecambe and the football club is now up for sale. Coventry City who play their matches at the Coventry Building Society Arena will doubtless be anxiously waiting news of the future of their ground which is owned by Wasps Holdings Ltd. Jurgen Klopp has been complaining bitterly of late about an exclusive group of clubs who are seemingly able to operate without any effective financial constraints but it seems to me the clubs most at risk continue to be those in the Championship and below who continue to have to fight for survival. Close to home Bury AFC continue a nomad like existence here in Radcliffe dreaming not only of a return to spiritual home Gigg Lane but also of gaining promotion back to the EFL from which Bury FC were so unceremoniously expelled in August 2019. Perhaps we can just be thankful that for the present time our beloved Burnley FC seems to be moving forward once again with a growing congruence between fans, owners, management and players. Birmingham, Sunderland, Norwich and Reading complete our October fixture list and it will be joyful to go into November still top of the League.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Good piece is that Sir Outwood. I was amazed Chelsea were left untouched by the "supposed sanctions" debacle, but then again when Russian money is in the Toxic party no turn will be left unturned to protect them.

I wrote in my Coventry match preview about the uncertainty of their ground situation, that one has certainly come home to roost. I did not know that Morecambe are now under threat following the collapse of Worcester Warriors.

What we need is more Toxic party intervention or as in the case of Chelsea no Toxic party intervention and perhaps a sprinkling of oligarchs' fairy dust in the West Midlands and the North-West coast.