Plymouth Albion’s plight raises issue of funding in rugby union’s second tier | Paul Rees

The club’s chairman has warned the RFU that there will be casualties unless extra money comes into the Championship• England cavalier Cipriani must hope Lancaster changes tackPlymouth Albion have little more than a week to raise £250,000 or go into administration and be relegated from the Championship. The plight of a club that has tried to pay its way in a division dominated by two sides for whom money is little object, Bristol and Worcester, without in any way trying to match them, has raised the issue of funding in English rugby’s second tier.The Championship is the impoverished littl…