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Doncaster and Ealing opt out of promotion
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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 850937" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>I think that reality is slowly creeping in at Yorkshire Headingly Roundhay Leeds Carnegie Tykes. Their Leeds Met ties are being cut, which is apparently going to cost them £1m a season, with no injection of funds to replace it on the horizon. To compound this, they apparently spend £400k p.a. for the use of Headingly and the training facilities, so will be trying to cut their cloth accordingly next season. This being the case, the chances of them mounting a challenge against a well funded Bristol side are somewhere between slim to non-existent. The challenge of assembling a side capable of surviving in the AP during the off season has been demonstrated by London Welsh and Bristol to be very difficult, although this will be slightly eased by a greater degree of certainty now that the playoffs are gone. I believe that the best, possibly the only way of surviving your first AP season is to go up with an AP qualityish side, then strengthen it for good measure, there's no way that Leeds have the money to do this and could find themselves financially outgunned by Ealing next season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 850937, member: 58362"] I think that reality is slowly creeping in at Yorkshire Headingly Roundhay Leeds Carnegie Tykes. Their Leeds Met ties are being cut, which is apparently going to cost them £1m a season, with no injection of funds to replace it on the horizon. To compound this, they apparently spend £400k p.a. for the use of Headingly and the training facilities, so will be trying to cut their cloth accordingly next season. This being the case, the chances of them mounting a challenge against a well funded Bristol side are somewhere between slim to non-existent. The challenge of assembling a side capable of surviving in the AP during the off season has been demonstrated by London Welsh and Bristol to be very difficult, although this will be slightly eased by a greater degree of certainty now that the playoffs are gone. I believe that the best, possibly the only way of surviving your first AP season is to go up with an AP qualityish side, then strengthen it for good measure, there's no way that Leeds have the money to do this and could find themselves financially outgunned by Ealing next season. [/QUOTE]
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