A Welsh rugby club chairman has issued a plea for the community game to receive greater financial support after revealing how monthly costs have doubled.
And, in a stark warning to the financial reality facing grassroots clubs, mid-week training and matches could soon be affected as teams struggle to cover the rising costs to simply power the floodlights.
Caerphilly RFC posted an infographic on social media on Wednesday that demonstrated that their monthly costs had soared from £5,112-a-month to £10,375 - meaning it now costs just shy of £125,000-a-year to run the Division Two East Central side. And the club's chairman, Gareth Ashman, fears that several other community clubs will be facing up to similar mounting bills.
