London Irish Administrator Lee Manning said Ski Sports It’s just a “question of time” until the following premier rugby club follows, saying the financial model of the game must be “radically change”.
The past month, the news broke that the consortium was at the former owner of F1 Tim Eddie Jordan bought London Irish outside the administration.
London Irish in June 2023. he had broken more than 30 million unpaid invoices and has since requested investments – development that forced their relegation from premiership and removal from English rugby pyramid.
Consortium at the forefront of the former team owner Formula 1 Eddie Jordan bought London Irish out of administration
The club was third clothes from Premiership in less than a year to suffer such destiny after Worker Warrior and OSP.
Speak Ski Sports NewsManning is a belief more follows: “There are only 10 teams (in Premiership). We saw Worcester, Osa and London Irish, so it’s a few years, so they aren’t waiting for them to stay there and wait for them to be there waiting.
“It takes just another club to fail, maybe two, and where is the sustainability of the league? Where is the attraction of the league?
“In the 2022/23 season, no club earned. The smallest loss was Gloucester to 550,000 pounds and seven of which was a negative balance sheet, of which the biggest bristol bears about 34 million pounds.
“Sheel sharks are about 1.9 million pounds, there are only three clubs with a positive balance: Northampton, Harlequins and Gloucester. The medium-term is a little chance of profitability and therefore a significant risk of other clubs go to the wall.
“I think it is (just a matter of time). Unless the financial model of the game can change radically.”
The rumors are circulated by London Irish will join the URC, where they compete from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and South Africa competes and can even be based in Ireland.
Such ambition has roots in the fact that Manning says the RFU regulations around the injustice unfairly in preventing clubs to return to the upper level, or, says, even the second level.
“I talked to RFUs and said,” So what needs to be a situation where someone needs to pay for $ 2.7 million, and it cannot play any competitive matches after the season after the championship began to follow the championship. “
“They replied,” No, that’s wrong, Mr. Manning. “So?” The club went through the season and didn’t play any matches and didn’t have points, so it’s exhausted. “My face fell, as you can imagine.
OSP’s, London Irish and Worcester Warriors every broke all within a year
“How can it make it attractive or sustainable that someone could pay £ 2.7m, must wait a year, and then start in the league of those without any income?
“They are (regulations) unfairly. They stifle the ability to rejuvenate. They punish parties who invested significant sums in an attempt to make horns club sustainable.
“Supports also lost because these obstacles are put in a way that it is extremely difficult to target interest clubs club.
“I understand and everyone knows when they enter the process, there is a rule of evidence. It is a consequence. There are football in football and it can lead to relegation. Rugby knows the rules of engagement.
“But to undergo the top of it, sanction suspension and another relegation when the club actually did not even manage to play at all, it doesn’t make sense.”
London Irish was the Third Prime Minister Lee Manning Administrator, says that it’s a matter of time “before the other club suffers the same destiny
Manning also confirmed that he believes that Jordan was very interested in looking at London Irish to join the URC, but he added that RFU will have the ability to crowd.
“My understanding there is an intention to see if they can join the URC and I think it could be the case for the OSP and because there is no sustainable entrance to Premiership.
“But I’m not a party to criteria that need to show that they have adequate finances, to get a stadium to play, trained ground, and I also believe that there must be RFU sanctioning so that he must act anyway.
Manning found that he believed that RFU has the possibility of blocking any potential London Irish relocation to Urc
“London Irish in Ireland? That would be interesting. I’d have to change the name.
“In these circumstances (RFO blocks London Irish to join the URC), I don’t know which one could be a second league that could be formed or any international competition, but still that they continue to post the club on them.
“We are not the party of their thoughts or discussions, but they would be very hoped to enter the Urc or a similar league.”
Ski Sports News He contacted RFU to answer.