THE quango-like blindness to accountability in the top echelon of this RFU administration, and their erosion and disregard the democratic conventions embedded in the RFU constitution as a members’ co-operative, were on show this week in the actions of Rob Udwin.
Part of Udwin’s role as RFU president – a year-long office as titular figurehead – is to stay out of the internal politics of the English game, in much the same way as our constitutional monarch does not interfere in the government of the UK.
However, on Udwin’s watch this has given way to p...