SRU chief executive Mark Dodson has set some lofty goals
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The Scotsman's David Ferguson talks to Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Mark Dodson.
"The obvious question is: where is the money coming from? The SRU has been able to turn over £35m but, as welcome as the new funding is, it must beg the question how Murrayfield has changed from its Scrooge-like status to an eager investment broker breathing new hope into the professional game.
"Dodson said: “There is money here and there has always been money generated by Scottish rugby. To answer that honestly, I think it is about spending priorities. We have looked very closely at the non-rugby activities, administration and other areas, bringing some work that was contracted out in-house and are basically driving people harder and making them work in a slightly different way.
“We’ve cut back on certain expenditure. We haven’t had a chance to generate new revenues but the difference now is that rugby here is no longer seen as a cost, but seen as what we do. Everything now is about rugby, and everything else that we do is a support for rugby and maybe that wasn’t the case before.
“I don’t want to look backwards, but we obviously saw things we could do quickly that could turn things around in here and it comes back to a desire to put rugby back at the core of what we do in the Scottish Rugby Union.”
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