Championship Rugby: Coventry for sale but club has Premiership future Sport Business Benefactor of Premiership hopefuls Coventry Rugby Jon Sharp sits down with Morning Wire to discuss why he’d sell up and walk away if the right party came along. A brief poke under the bonnet of rugby union’s financials would be enough to frighten even Formula 1’s greatest mechanic away. In so-called perfect France losses are [...]
Premiership Rugby ringfenced again as Ealing and Coventry fail RFU tests Sport Business Championship leaders Ealing have failed the RFU’s minimum standards audit and will be denied promotion to the Premiership, which will retain its existing 10 teams next season. Third-placed Coventry have also failed the audit, which was conducted by the RFU’s Professional Rugby Board, in a development that is likely to increase tensions ahead of next [...]