THE news that RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney has had to go bowl in hand like some latterday Oliver to ask the bank for more might be comical if it had not revealed that the cash-strapped RFU has gone from a Triple A rated borrower, to one closer to Minus B.
This emphasises like nothing else the significance of the Baron Files, with their forensic analysis of how the RFU has got itself into such dire straits, with debts of £250m.
It is why, although this week sees our three-part series come to a conclusion in one sense, in another I hope it helps to start a movement which demands root-an...