SRU still paying for Netherdale, but no games planned there this year
David Ferguson believes the Scottish Rugby Union is cutting off its nose to spite its face in failing to make more of the Netherdale facility it is maintaining in Galashiels. Read his thoughts in The Scotsman.
"When the Scottish Rugby Union pulled the plug on the Border Reivers professional side in 2007, chief executive Gordon McKie insisted that the union was not turning its back on the rugby-playing region.
"However, there are growing concerns that the SRU has done exactly that with confirmation that it is to persist with last year's policy of staging no major representative fixtures in the Borders in 2009, despite continuing to plough funds into one of the country's best pitches, at Netherdale in Galashiels. At the heart of that approach appears to lie a contract to maintain the Gala pitch."
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