Griffiths Urges Rugby To Grasp Opportunity For Growth

Saracens have come a long way in the past decade, from finishing 10th in the Premiership and the second lowest crowds in the league to a domestic and European final and selling out Wembley Stadium, and chief executive Ed Griffiths is imploring other clubs to aim for similarly explosive growth. The North London club’s total attendance for the 2004/05 Premiership season was just 73,084 and last season they attracted 83,889 to a single match when they set a world record for a club rugby crowd against Harlequins at Wembley in March. Having been chief executive of the South African Rugby Union at t…