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RFU need to source other players to end this ransom | Jeff Probyn

RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney

The past few weeks have provided interesting reading re Francis Baron’s thoughts of how things have got out of hand at the RFU with an unchosen few having power. Interestingly though, he was at the forefront of a number of the changes he is now disagreeing with.
After Baron left the Union there existed a standing joke that he was bought in to ‘streamline’ the RFU which had around 70 employees at the start of his tenure. But, strangely, when he left they had over 400.
The increase in governance was to enable the RFU to be more in line with a PLC than the cooperative, which had been in place...

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