Most games at Stradey fail to fill the ground to full capacity but matches in the Heineken European Cup are often sell-outs so a crowd cut would hit the club in the pocket.
"If you can hit the house owners hard in the pocket every time, they are much more vigilant about who is renting from them, " says Darryl Plecas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University College of the Fraser Valley.