Financial stability is our priority - Durkin

CORNISH Pirates chairman Paul Durkin has branded the RFU “the only body in sport who haven’t reinstated Covid cuts”. 

- MIKE SINCLAIR

Durkin took to the Mennaye Field pitch during Pirates’ Meet The Players night on Thursday to reassure fans that the financial stability of the club is the number one priority in these uncertain times for the second tier of professional rugby.

“We are not going to put this club at risk but there’s a lot of uncertainty out there,” he told them after a summer which has seen a number of key players move on both for financial and ambition reasons.

The cloud hanging over Pirates in recent years has been the constant delays in securing a new ground to fulfil the requirements for eventual promotion to the Premiership.

With the funding promised by former prime minister David Cameron never being delivered and Cornwall Council withdrawing the financial support they pledged, the Pirates have been left to go it alone.