Sentence examples for playing budgets from inspiring English sources

With limitless playing budgets, the big French teams have won through again this year, which should be good news for the spectator but hasn't been.

Finally, Pompey will also face a range of other restrictions on playing budgets, future borrowing and loan repayments for the next five seasons.

Racing 92 may have one of the largest playing budgets in Europe and a squad that includes a dozen players brought in from overseas, but they have developed a tightness to rival that of Saracens, their opponents in Saturday's Champions Cup final in Lyon.

The Cardiff Blues and Wales prop Gethin Jenkins, who returned to the region after a season with Toulon, hopes the size of the crowd generated by "Judgment Day" will act as a stimulus for the four regions, whose playing budgets are a fraction of those in France and 50% less than in England.

The regions have lost a number of players to French and English clubs in the last couple of seasons, operating on the lowest playing budgets in the Six Nations and without England's policy of only considering players for international rugby who are earning their livings outside the country under exceptional circumstances.

"All these teams' playing budgets are considerably less than Southend United's," he continued.

"It's important we are responsible about that and don't put it all into the playing budget," he said.

Tomorrow's contest is very much David versus Goliath with Liverpool's playing budget roughly three times that of Academy, a club affiliated to South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.

They weren't ready for it, but you try and convince directors, who had just doubled their playing budget, that 'full-time' is just coming in for an hour in the morning.

Whyte, who pledged a £25m boost to the playing budget over five years before taking control, added: "In the summer transfer window last year we conducted 14 different pieces of transfer business, more than any other club in Scotland.

"We operated our playing budget and budgets from that, and we've stuck to that process.