By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week
Bill Beaumont is stepping into a saloon in which the tables and chairs have been smashed, and the blood is up.
The call for an SGM supported by over 200 of the RFU’s member clubs, and its referees union, going into this weekend – which includes a motion to fire chief executive Bill Sweeney – is a clear signal that they are not going to go quietly into the night, irrespective of interim Board chairman Beaumont’s diplomatic skills.
The clubs want justice, democracy, and open governance rather than quango unaccountability and a haze of obfusca...
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