Uncertainty looms ahead of top 3 clash

Coventry Rugby’s captain, Jordon Poole has expressed concerns and shown players uneasiness awaiting the RFU’s decision about the future of the league. With this Saturday seeing them fight for second place in the championship against Doncaster Knights.

“We are still waiting on a decision from the RFU on what our actual league will look like next year and that does cause uncertainty between players. But everyone’s focused on just doing and playing as well as they can for the club.”

Captain Jordon Poole reaches his 50th cap for Coventry Rugby

With a couple clubs from the premiership going bankrupt, most notably Wasps RFC, Jordon stresses the importance of being sustainable as a club but also growing as a sport.

“We’ve seen so many teams in the last year crumble financially and lose everything and the history. I think here at Cov they have a real focus that they need to be sustainable on the business side and as well the rugby needs to perform.”

With four teams all within one point of each other, this upcoming game is pivotal for Coventry in going second in the table, although not season defining as Jordon puts it. With their last week’s home win against Ampthill being a dominant performance of 34-6, Poole is hoping to build on that against Doncaster.

Coventry Rugby’s lineup ahead of their match against Doncaster Knights.

“That whole second half is how we would like to take the positives from that into our Doncaster game. Our 22 accuracy in the second half was 72%, so that means every time we entered into the oppositions 22 we came away with points.” He goes onto say “Against the top three we’ve got to be clinical. We’ve got to put in a full 80-minute performance against a good team like Doncaster.”

In the last six years, Butts Park has seen a 193% increase in attendance. This has also come with a boost in performance from the club in the last couple seasons, which Jordon also highlighted, “Last year was the highest finish in competitive rugby since the goldens days as we say, which Cov used to be in the 80’s. I think the wins and then results, and then top three finishes entice fans to come and get season tickets to come and watch.”