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Decision day for Coventry Rugby Club
By John Wilkinson July 2 2008
IT'S decision day for Coventry Rugby Club as the two-week appeal to raise a maximum £100,000 performance security bond comes to a climax. The fund smashed through the halfway mark yesterday afternoon at a figure of £50,895 as contributions continued to come in to all branches of the Coventry Building Society.

The appeal closes at noon today, and all the fans and well-wishers who have supported the Telegraph-led project in such magnificent fashion will be hoping for a positive ending after the final hours of the campaign.

"There is still time for a lot more to be added to the fund," said trustee John Butler. "We will inform the Rugby Football Union of the final amount, and if we are short it is down to them to consider what happens next.

"Whatever, it has been an outstanding show of support from the people of the city who have shown how much the club and its history means to them, and we hope that this will be taken into consideration."

Sky Blues director Joe Elliott, who has many happy memories of watching Cov in action at Coundon Road in the 1960s, made
a personal contribution to the fund yesterday and the auction for a hospitality box at one of next season's game at the Butts Park Arena was won by solicitors Sarginsons, Hughes & Masser.

The bond will be lodged with the RFU to enable Cov to remain in National Division One next season and avoid dropping eight levels to the bottom of the league system.

Ironically, First Division Rugby - the National One body - is holding its July meeting at the Butts Park Arena today.

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