Jersey Reds - Administration???

What tax payers money into the Premiership? There were government business loans during the covid pandemic that were available to many businesses other than rugby and is now being repaid. Worcester and Wasps seem to have been badly run, not too sure about Irish as there seems to be less information there, those three clubs were on a collision course with the wall due to debts they could not repay, Premiership clubs are now making those payments, or at least I know the Tigers are.

WEvans wrote: Brizzer wrote: Looking at the ‘unseen’ cost to the Island, I was in St. Aubin last night. For those who don’t know, St. Aubin’s is a very pretty village with a marina, a few hotels, restaurants and bars, which sits across the bay from St. Helier. It is about 2 miles from the rugby club and is served really well by a good bus route. After Reds games St. Aubin is normally rammed with people who have been to the game. The Traff public house is normally jumping. We were supposed to play Ealing last night (so sorry guys), but obviously couldn’t. St. Aubin was like a ghost town…. And the person who runs the Parish voted against the motion in the states. I wonder if his business owners are thanking him for that decision!! I think you are forgetting the very 'seen' cost to the island of the hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money contributed to the club in the last few years.

Small fry compared to the amount of UK taxpayers’ money poured into Premiership Rugby clubs to stop them going bust estimated to be £124 million which didn't stop the loss of 3 premiership clubs

Brizzer wrote: Looking at the ‘unseen’ cost to the Island, I was in St. Aubin last night. For those who don’t know, St. Aubin’s is a very pretty village with a marina, a few hotels, restaurants and bars, which sits across the bay from St. Helier. It is about 2 miles from the rugby club and is served really well by a good bus route. After Reds games St. Aubin is normally rammed with people who have been to the game. The Traff public house is normally jumping. We were supposed to play Ealing last night (so sorry guys), but obviously couldn’t. St. Aubin was like a ghost town…. And the person who runs the Parish voted against the motion in the states. I wonder if his business owners are thanking him for that decision!!

corporalcarrot wrote: .......The other costs of coaches, insurance & medical support staff will increase this but only exacerbates the lack of transparency when global figures are bandied about without defining what they include or their source.

The minimum legal wage in Jersey is I believe £10.50 per hour and assuming a 35 hour week and 52 weeks a year would gross up to £19,110 which together with the standard employer social costs would result in a minimum legal cost per player of around £22K. The figure I heard quoted as the average cost of players was £26K which is a about 20% above the legal minimum but somewhere close to the living wage. I believe Jersey had 35 players which if we use the figure quoted would give a total player only cost of £910K. The other costs of coaches, insurance & medical support staff will increase this but only exacerbates the lack of transparency when global figures are bandied about without defining what they include or their source.

OldNick wrote: While my sympathy for the Jersey players, staff, and supporters remains intact, I am finding it much harder to have much sympathy for the jersey management. The statement linked below issued by Coventry rugby Club states that in the proposal to gain more funding from the Jersey State, the Jersey Reds used inaccurate comparative information about Coventry Rugby Club overstating the level of player spending by Coventry. I obviously don't know whether the Jersey proposal was knowingly inaccurate or just mistaken, but whichever way, the factor of a 200% over assessment of Coventry spending is significant and potentially very damaging to Coventry and it's sponsors.  It is also not clear from Coventry's statement whether other clubs were also mis-described In this way. https://www.coventryrugby.co.uk/a-statement-by-coventry-rugby/

And here it is https://statesassembly.gov.je/AssemblyPropositions/2023/P.78-2023.pdf