RFU hopes World Cup will attract 25,000 extra players These young people are hopefully our future club leaders and administrators who are going to lead the game into the next decade and what we are going to do is use the inspiration of the World Cup to get them heavily involved in the club. In terms of adult players our stable figure is currently around 190,000 and our aspiration is to get it up to 215,000 by 2017. Grainger said that the ambassadors - who will attend conferences at Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Brighton, Leicester, Gloucester, Exeter and Twickenham on Thursday - would be asked to focus on three areas of responsibility at their clubs. The first is to tell the Rugby World Cup story back in their club. Wherever the club is in the country we want them to feel part of what is going on. The second is to bring back two people every year who used to play the game who no longer play. That will be a great participation boost. The third is to go out into their local area and unearth stories about what rugby means to that community. The RFU is aiming to recruit more volunteers in May next year, with a final intake next October.