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Premiership Rugby urges fans to have their say on salary cap regulations

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Premiership Rugby wants supporters to have their say on the review of the English domestic top flight’s salary cap regulations.

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English rugby bosses launched an extensive salary cap review led by former Government minister Lord Myners in the wake of Saracens’ breaches that have led to the north London club’s relegation.

Saracens’ punishments mean they will drop down into the second-tier Championship next season, with the fallout now continuing into a wide-reaching review of salary cap rules.

Premiership Rugby has now launched a public consultation, where anyone can air their views on the issue. “We have launched this independently-led review because we want to strengthen further the salary cap to ensure we have a world-leading system,” said Premiership Rugby chief executive Darren Childs.

“In the recent Saracens case, the existing regulations received the endorsement of an independent panel led by Lord Dyson, but we now want to look to the future.

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“Listening to the views of everyone with an interest in club rugby will help us to put in place the right set of powers, obligations and sanctions for the long-term benefit of the sport. We would encourage everyone to take part and we’re grateful to all those who share their views.”

Lord Myners’ review will be published in the second quarter of 2020 in a bid to be implemented ahead of the 2020-21 Premiership season.

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The public consultation runs until February 20 and is available at www.mynersreview.co.uk.

Lord Myners added: “I’m delighted to be leading this crucial review into all aspects of the operation of the Premiership Rugby salary cap.

“We are approaching this consultation in a transparent and accountable way and I will seek to ensure that no stone is left unturned.

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“The Premiership Rugby clubs and other organisations like the RFU and RPA will have a pivotal role in this consultation but making it public ensures that everyone with an interest in professional rugby in England can input to the results.”

– Press Association

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JW 55 minutes ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I had a look at the wiki article again, it's all terribly old data (not that I'd see reason for much change in the case of SA).

Number Of Clubs:

1526

Registered+Unregistered Players:

651146

Number of Referees:

3460

Pre-teen Male Players:

320842

Pre-teen Female Player:

4522

Teen Male Player:

199213

Teen Female Player:

4906

Senior Male Player:

113174

Senior Female Player:

8489

Total Male Player:

633229

Total Female Player:

17917


So looking for something new as were more concerned with adults specifically, so I had a look at their EOY Financial Review.

The total number of clubs remains consistent, with a marginal increase of 1% from 1,161 to 1,167. 8.1.

A comparative analysis of verified data for 2022 and 2023 highlights a marginal decline of 1% in the number of female players, declining from 6,801 to 6,723. Additionally, the total number of players demonstrates an 8% decrease, dropping from 96,172 to 88,828.

So 80k+ adult males (down from 113k), but I'm not really sure when youth are involved with SAn clubs, or if that data is for some reason not being referenced/included. 300k male students however (200k in old wiki data).


https://resources.world.rugby/worldrugby/document/2020/07/28/212ed9cf-cd61-4fa3-b9d4-9f0d5fb61116/P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf has France at 250k registered but https://presse-europe1-fr.translate.goog/exclu-europe-1-le-top-10-des-sports-les-plus-pratiques-en-france-en-2022/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp has them back up at 300k registered.


The French number likely Students + Club, but everyone collects data different I reckon. In that WR pdf for instance a lot of the major nations have a heavily registered setup, were as a nation like England can penetrate into a lot more schools to run camps and include them in the reach of rugby. For instance the SARU release says only 29% of schools are reached by proper rugby programs, where as the 2million English number would be through a much much higer penetration I'd imagine. Which is thanks to schools having the ability to involve themselves in programs more than anything.


In any case, I don't think you need to be concerned with the numbers, whether they are 300 or 88k, there is obviously a big enough following for their pro scenes already to have enough quality players for a 10/12 team competition. They appear ibgger than France but I don't really by the lower English numbers going around.

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