It's probably a story to generate financial support for the club rather than a real panic, but it's an example of how hard it is for professional rugby to survive outside the top twelve clubs in England. We're number 15 in the country - if we were the 15th ranked football team we'd have million pound superstars all over the place and sponsors ramming money down our throats.
We aren't actually the same team now, having split before this season started, so I'm a member of Nottingham Boots Corsairs RFC and merely a supporter of Nottingham Rugby but it still hurts to see them in trouble. My kids have been trained by a lot of the players from Nottingham Rugby over the years; they arec a great bunch of blokes and they deserve better than this.
I don't think the management of the club has been great since the game turned professional but you can't fault the efforts of the members in working to drag it back up. It's just a shame these efforts seem to have come to nothing. Some teams did better than us, some did worse.
However, it isn't helpful to criticise just now, or even to dispute some of the things I just heard the Chairman say about the money they spend on supporting the amateur club. Let's just say that from the point of view of the parents of NBCRFC it looks like we gave them plenty too.
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