Brian Ravenhill
Referees in England
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Forgive me if I get some facts wrong, but I believe that Royal Bank of Scotland are now owned/ controlled by HM Government having bailed them out due to the financial crisis. The Scottish RFU have announced a major sponsorship deal with RBS believed to be a seven figure sum.
HM government are currently trying to save money, quite right too, and one route to this saving is to cut/slash funding for school sports.
So HM government are not going to give money to schools to allow our children to partake in sports, but are prepared to give it to a bank to then give to the SRFU to effectively spend on a very few players! Whilst all the press info will say that funding goes down to grass roots rugby and in truth some, a very little bit, does get the grass roots. The vast majority will be spent on a very pampered few at the elite end of the game.
Last week my child came home from school with a letter asking permission for him to sign a petition to prevent the slashing of school sports funding. If children can get the habit of playing sport it will hopefully stay with them for a very long time. Some children are not academically suited to the school environment but excel when on the sports field are these children to be victims of the cuts.
If you or your child has the opportunity to sign such a petition as my child has just give it a little more thought than a lot of the pieces of paper they bring home from school.
HM government are currently trying to save money, quite right too, and one route to this saving is to cut/slash funding for school sports.
So HM government are not going to give money to schools to allow our children to partake in sports, but are prepared to give it to a bank to then give to the SRFU to effectively spend on a very few players! Whilst all the press info will say that funding goes down to grass roots rugby and in truth some, a very little bit, does get the grass roots. The vast majority will be spent on a very pampered few at the elite end of the game.
Last week my child came home from school with a letter asking permission for him to sign a petition to prevent the slashing of school sports funding. If children can get the habit of playing sport it will hopefully stay with them for a very long time. Some children are not academically suited to the school environment but excel when on the sports field are these children to be victims of the cuts.
If you or your child has the opportunity to sign such a petition as my child has just give it a little more thought than a lot of the pieces of paper they bring home from school.
