Simmers Welcomes Decision to Plunge Investment Into Glasgow
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BRIAN Simmers yesterday welcomed the SRU's decision to close the Borders team and push more funding into Glasgow, but warned the union that there were no great stores of wealth to be tapped into in Scotland's largest city.
The former Scotland international is one of the best-placed judges of what kind of support rugby can receive in Glasgow, having worked within the business and rugby communities to form the ambitious new Glasgow Hawks club in 1997 and spent most of last year scouring the wider Glasgow district for help in putting together a plan to franchise the pro team from the SRU.See the full content of this document
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Simmers Welcomes Decision to Plunge Investment Into Glasgow
He admitted he found willing sponsors of several thousands of pounds, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, but no millions being offered to rugby and so had to pull the plug...
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