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It would be reasonable to expect that, by the time RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney and his Premiership counterpart, Simon Massie-Taylor, sat down at the hearing convened at Westminster on Thursday by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), they would have had a plan.
That plan should have included a blueprint for a complete overhaul of the English club game, and its governance, following the demise of Worcester and Wasps. It should have provided an explanation of where the RFU and Premiership Rugby have made serious mist...