The RFU has promised to give grassroots clubs more control over community rugby as the governing body attempts to win support ahead of the Special General Meeting on March 27.
A majority vote against Bill Sweeney by the 1,200 clubs and other stakeholders would rubberstamp a request that the RFU Board sacks its chief executive “as soon as practicably possible”.
The RFU has now added a second motion to the SGM, calling for a review into how the community game is run, shifting to “a regional structure where more decisions can be made locally”.
Interim RFU chair Bill Beaumont, who has been on a ...