JEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

Just as we all thought it couldn’t get any worse now the season is over and were hoping to see some light at the end of the tunnel, there is more bad news.
With a third club, London Irish, having gone into administration and a number of others perilously close, the Government has decided to step in and help the RFU to try and sort out the mess that is currently Rugby Football Union.
In doing so they have appointed Ralph Rimmer, a former rugby league chief executive, and Chris Pilling, a board member of Sport UK who, it is said, have been appointe...