BILL Sweeney has ducked so far below the parapet when it comes to answering questions about the RFU’s administration of the game in England that he has become virtually invisible. Yet, it is his job to do so because, ultimately, he answers to the RFU’s member clubs and the English rugby public.
Irrespective of England’s results at this World Cup, one of the most pressing questions the RFU chief executive has to answer is the contractual position of head coach Steve Borthwick.
There have been reports – unconfirmed by Sweeney – that Borthwick is being paid the same vastly inflated £700,000 an...