The old cliche tells us it’s tough at the top, and it can be, but it can also be brutally difficult at the bottom.
Ask Tata Steel RFC.
They are currently propping up what’s been called Welsh rugby’s toughest league, the Admiral Championship. In it, relatively well-financed clubs go up against others whose pockets are nowhere near as deep. “Big budgets against next to no budgets,” one observer of the community scene suggested earlier this season.