joe soap wrote: Its not just that the context of the quotes you refer to being the super 6 and thus not intended to be specific but relative to £1m budgets, the CEO reported the budget figures to the AGM, confirmed by another poster as being as posted earlier by me. On top of that the SRU income has grown well over those 2 years or so. Yet you continue to assert cuts, or shrinking budgets, which £4-5M would be.
Look, it was [the CEO himself who gave the figure of £4-5m for the Pro team squad budgets, I didn't dream it up.
Dodson told us at the SGM two years ago that the squad budgets were around £4.8m for Embra and £5.2m for Glasgow. If he is still saying, two years later - as he is - that the budgets are still '£4-5m, it suggests pretty strongly that Embra is frozen on just about where it was in 2016. Surely that penny has to drop at some point?
You offer no contradictory evidence or anything factual, just an off-the-wall assumption that, because the SRU's income is (marginally) up, Embra will be OK. You do not factor in the many competing claims and priorities on the SRU's current agenda, including (a) trying to buy into an Aviva club, (b) building a mini-Murrayfield on the back pitches, with a likely £1m artificial pitch surface, (c) putting money into Stade Nicois and (d) an £800k contribution to the Super 6, coming to a cinema near you pretty soon.
If you have anything more concrete, happy to look at it. A priori assertions and guesswork, not so much.