Mowden is my local club (am a volunteer coach and my son is in the minis) so have some inside track, and it's generally good, they're cash rich at the moment (but wary) and actually bought a lot of surrounding land as well as the stadium, and have almost completed 2 floodlit pitches and plans for a 3G pitch
They've employed a commercial manager to utilise the facilities, events, conferencing, hospitality, restaurant etc and it looks really exciting. Still early days but think they're being sensible. A lot of options with visiting national teams as a training base for RWC next year too (SA and All Blacks been to take a look)
On the pitch there's some amazing Rugby, and attendances growing too, some argument that promotion, financially might actually be a bad thing this year, next year I think was the target. Long term aim is knocking on the door of the championship in 5 years
Fingers crossed!
