S5 Ep4: Premiership Rugby’s Financial Reckoning: What the Leonard Curtis Report Reveals

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Alex, Hask, and Tins dive into the financial future of Premiership Rugby. Special guest Alex Cadwallader, Director at Leonard Curtis, joins the crew to discuss the newly released Leonard Curtis report, which examines the financial health of Premiership clubs from 2018 to 2023. With seven out of ten clubs reported to be balance sheet insolvent, the team explores what this means for the future of the game in England.
Along with financial talk, the episode also recaps recent Premiership action, including key away wins for Tins' old teams Gloucester and Bath.

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0:00.0	A recent financial report has come out showing that seven of the ten
0:03.6	preemption clubs are balance sheet insolvent. I thought there'd be more
0:08.1	positives to be honest with you. If you've always done something it doesn't all mean it's
0:11.6	right and doesn't mean we should always continue doing it.
0:13.2	And all rugby does is do that.
0:15.0	The numbers are the numbers and they are pretty startling.
0:17.6	I'm not here to try and put the nail in the coffin of English club rugby.
0:20.7	Well, see, I report's looking at what is what's happened, Alex, and what I haven't got access to.
0:24.0	I'm now putting you into the community.
0:27.0	I'm challenging in the way that Brian Moore does.
0:29.0	Don't just say do more.
0:30.0	Give us an answer.
0:31.0	Absolutely.
0:32.0	So I think if the owners are reading it they're going to be pretty
0:33.4	pissed off in the fact that they actually look after the game. You've still got a business that turns
0:38.0	over 200 million pounds. You know, look after that, protect it.
0:41.3	And you should probably think before you tie it before you buck me off.
0:44.0	Okay. Into the final moments Alex Payne trying to keep this side going forward
0:55.2	Haskell takes it on now with just relentless chat largely about himself and
0:59.3	there's Tyndall to add the finishing touch of glamour and World Cup winning stories and a slightly sideways
1:05.1	nose. That is how you podcast. A dominant display by the good, the bad and the rugby.
1:13.0	Hello Dream team. welcome along to this week's episode of the Good the Bad and the Rugby proudly sponsored by continental tires our go-to for premium tires
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