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Letters to the editor and short takes Friday February 12 2021

By Letters to the Editor
February 12 2021 - 7:30am
Play for union's Shute Shield a divisive one
Play for union's Shute Shield a divisive one

The area where rugby union has struggled most, with competition from numerous other well supported football codes and sports, is at grassroots and junior levels. This has principally been left to individual clubs and dedicated groups of parents and friends ultimately achieving pocket money by comparison with the buckets of funds the other codes are being provided with. If you lose the grassroots you will ultimately lose the code. A perennial problem for rugby union at all levels is funding. In my opinion the NHRU Board has primary responsibility to promote the game to its fullest extent in this region and clubs across-the-region have done their best to chase scarce funding through sponsorship and the standard range of fundraising activities available to amateur sporting codes. And these just get harder every year putting more pressure on the clubs individually and their members.

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