Alistair Bow, who has closed Nottingham’s Lady Bay ground and placed the players and the majority of the staff on the government furlough scheme, has seen income drop from £150,000 a month to nothing.
He believes that while clubs are cut to the bare bones the RFU is still splashing the cash on executive salaries, and that it has to stop.
“It cannot continue to pay the salaries it has paid its executives. Clubs are losing 50 per cent of their revenue and are having to make a 50 per cent reduction in costs, and the RFU has to align itself to that. This means not paying...