THE measure of a good CEO is not the size or wealth of the organisation he runs, but the quantity and complexity of the issues he has to deal with.
Bill Sweeney faces a huge challenge in trying to rebalance his organisation’s outgoings, while hamstrung by the decision of predecessors to hand the Premiership control over a significant chunk of these for an eight-year period, of which half is still to run.
PRL equates to a recalcitrant major shareholder, acting in its own narrow self-interest, severely constraining the RFU’s ability to respond to all of the competing needs fo...