Alex McHenry still can’t quite get his head around the Channel Island ructions of September 28 last year. The midfielder had giddily packed his bag the night before ahead of an 8am Jersey airport assembly for a Premiership Rugby Cup match at Cornish Pirates.
However, instead of a leisurely Thursday morning flight to England for the fixture in Penzance, he was woken by a 6am text message informing him of an emergency meeting an hour later at the Reds clubhouse. Jolted by what he read, he was immediately knocking on the bedroom doors of housemates Thom Smith, Peter Sullivan and Eoghan Clarke telling them they needed to get up and quickly head down the road with him.
What followed was cataclysmic. Harry Viljoen’s squad were brutally told that the business had gone into liquidation, that they no longer had jobs and that the club would not defend its title in the 2023/24 Championship… all this just 12 days after they visited Bath…
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