Calling for cash to back Yorkshire Carnegie's Premiership dream

By The Newsroom
Published 30th Aug 2017, 07:00 BST
Updated 11th Sep 2017, 12:48 BST
Sir Ian McGeechan (left) and David Dockray, chairman for Yorkshire Carnegie at Headingley (Picture: Gary Longbottom)Sir Ian McGeechan (left) and David Dockray, chairman for Yorkshire Carnegie at Headingley (Picture: Gary Longbottom)
Sir Ian McGeechan (left) and David Dockray, chairman for Yorkshire Carnegie at Headingley (Picture: Gary Longbottom)
Yorkshire Carnegie have issued a fresh plea for local investment as they bid to keep alive their ambition of reclaiming a place in the Premiership.

The board of the Headingley club are seeking £1.5m this year and roughly the same again over the next two seasons as part of a three-year financing package.

The appeal comes nearly three seasons after a new board of directors, led by local businessman David Dockray, launched a similar scheme on the back of the club’s rebrand from Leeds Carnegie to the county-wide name they now possess.

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Back then, the rebrand was built on Sir Ian McGeechan’s vision for the club to prosper on the strength of players flowing through their county-wide academy programme.

Nine investors, new and old, came forward and over the last two-and-a-half seasons have put £2.8m into the club, but despite reaching the play-off final in May, Carnegie have not succeeded in earning promotion to the Premiership. They will also receive reduced funding from Leeds Beckett University this year, and the Rugby Football Union.