| Senior clubs are put to the pin of their collar to float cash-demanding first fifteens with the noticeable result that the lower teams are relatively unattended. |
| However, it is arguable that clubs with second fifteens in a metropolitan league, should be playing in a provincial cup of similar status. |
| Still going strong in their 53rd year, the Uffa Fox designed Flying Fifteens can really pull in the punters. |
| The affiliations committee felt the club's first team are too strong for the intermediate grade where all the other seven teams are second fifteens. |
