Cornish Pirates have launched a crowdfunder, external to help pay for the damage caused by last month’s storms.
Storm Goretti badly damaged the main stand at the Mennaye Field, causing about £200,000 of damage, which is insured.
But further damage caused by Storm Ingrid to the club’s electronic scoreboard, electrics and another stand is unlikely to be covered.
The club moved their last game to Camborne, and will also play their next home match at their neighbours, costing about £10,000 in lost revenues per game, with total uninsured costs closing in on £100,000.
“I feel really bad going out to people saying ‘please help’,” Cornish Pirates chief executive Sally Pettipher told BBC Sport.
“So many people offered help the moment the storm hit and I said ‘no no no, you know there’s insurance, that’s what it’s for’, but we just had not anticipated at the time how much more it was going to cost us than the insurance rebuilds.
“The costs of playing away are £9,000 to £10,000 a go, and that’s before loss of income.
“We were not resilient to shock, and so the storm damage and the consequent expenses of having to play elsewhere, and the loss of income because we have to pay back hospitality because people can’t come because there’s not enough room.
“We are in a fantastic place in terms of building forward, but we just had not anticipated the difficulties with physical damage to things like scoreboards and very boring things like electrics to PA systems and electrics for camera gantries and the things that we’re obliged to have because we’re a Championship club and the storm just wiped them out.
“So it’s just a tricky time and when people said ‘can we help’ and I said ‘no, no, no’, and now I’m saying ‘yes, yes, yes’.”