AS a long-time public advocate for community rugby, I have often been critical of the RFU’s inability to lend greater support to grassroots clubs, but I have to say that the almost constant flow of current articles and tweets making often unreasonable demands of our governing body seems to me to be going much too far.
Twickenham can’t spend money it doesn’t have and the massive hit to their revenues from Covid-19 dwarfs that suffered to varying degrees by the clubs.
I confidently expect the huge sums paid to Premiership clubs under the Professional game Agreement to be sub...