Abi Tierney

"We don’t have an infinite amount of finances, so we’ve got to prioritise and make choices. Absolutely, at the forefront was the high performance."

"You could build the best high-performance system from a blank sheet of paper, [but you need to] bear in mind the financial wherewithal to do that [which] is also really critical.”"

"And therefore we believe that if we fund all of the rugby costs, then the clubs are there to invest in fan experience, commercial ticketing, merchandise, sponsorship. They can really put their entrepreneurial spirit, ideas, innovation into that. And that’s a really good mix,”"