EWT spoons wrote:1. ...
But that still leaves the question of how Worcester are losing money after all those revenue streams. And given all the issues Worcester face, surely the fact they're drawing twice the crowd in a smaller city indicate that their current board isn't all that bad? And records crowds for Scottish teams are good, but relatively still not very big. After all, the SRU don't just need to be better, they need to be absolutely, hugely better to turn around the losses Worcester are making. I don't see why there's any reason to believe they are, not that they're incompetent, but are they financial wizards?
EWT spoons wrote:2. ...
But again, what happens with the EQP payments? Clubs will only care about a player's allegiances when it becomes formal, and they're capped and tied to us, someone can say they dream about playing for Scotland all they like, but until they actually do it, the clubs still get paid. So we're talking about players who are capped and solely SQ at this point, and there has to be a limit of how many of those we can play at this team, otherwise we'll lose the EQP funding. It's the exact same calculation all the other clubs are making, the only difference is we might show a bias towards Scottish tied players ahead of NZ, SA or other non-English players. But that's not going to be more than 2-3 players max, is it really worth it?