■ By NEALE HARVEY
TAKING an axe to Premiership funding would earn RFU boss Bill Sweeney applause from the community game, says Berkshire RFU and Rams Rugby chairman Andy Lynch.
Grassroots clubs and counties have borne the brunt of savage RFU cutbacks, both pre-Covid-19 and since lockdown, while the RFU’s £27.5m-a-year deal with Premiership Rugby has remained untouched, provoking anger at lower levels of the game.
Buckinghamshire’s Rugby Union last week launched a scathing attack on senior management at the RFU in an open letter which accused the governing body of all...