NICK CAIN
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BILL Sweeney does not much care for accountability. It is why his first press conference for nine months took place via an internet conference call from Paris this week. His predecessors as RFU chief executive held media sessions at Twickenham in person either monthly, bi-monthly, or at the very least quarterly.
The conference began with a 40 minute prepared monologue in which, a few days after Jersey Reds had become the fourth English professional club to go into receivership in the last year, Sweeney had the bare-faced gall to pronounce of t...