Getting administrative wires in a tangle seems to have been an RFU default position during Bill Sweeney’s six-year tenure as chief executive.
The lack of financial oversight when three Premiership clubs went into liquidation, the LTIP remuneration furore, and the tackle-height fiasco, are at the top of the list.
Add to that the continuing stasis and bad blood created by the creeping eradication of promotion-relegation between the Premiership and the rest of the English club game, as well as last year’s SGM attempt to oust Sweeney, and it speaks of an organisation beset by multiple malfunct...