By NICK CAIN
AN OVERSPEND of £900,000 by Eddie Jones’ England set-up was yesterday identified as compounding the financial problems which led to the resignation of RFU chief executive Steve Brown this week.
The timing of Brown’s resignation after only 14 months in the role seemed precipitate given that it came in the middle of England’s largely successful Autumn series.
However, it comes only weeks before the RFU’s annual accounts are due to be published, with alarm bells ringing loudly already over an anticipated sharp increase in financial losses and it is li...