It is high time English rugby with its huge resources, in both player and financial terms, ceased pressing the wretched self-destruct button.
As Nick Cain detailed in his damning column last week, Rugby Football Union CEO Bill Sweeney is clearly not up to the task of running English rugby.
In February 2020, Nottingham chairman Alistair Bow stated: “Bill Sweeney may go down as the man who ruined English rugby. The RFU have sold their soul to Premiership rugby and CVC.”
Sweeney’s crime then was to inexplicably ruthlessly cut the £534,000 budget for each of the 12 clubs in the Championship, th...