Sell all the RFU's assets to the highest bidder

I have studied your reply and see no answer to my question. Just more insults.

WEvans, 

Please refer to points 1), 2) and 4) in my longer post above for an answer to your question. 

No insult intended, but clearly there are some thin-skinned rugby folk out there on this forum.

1) Toughen up. In the 50+ years I have been following rugby, I have come to expect and enjoy the company of those who can handle a difference of opinion without throwing their toys out the pram or crying into their pillow if someone disagrees with them. Leave the Snowflakes to follow other sports with different shaped balls.

2) When I see or hear someone (online or in the flesh) attempting to stir up an idea, ideology, revolution so far detached from reality and (in this case) what the ordinary player/fan enjoys and is content with on their Saturday afternoon, I have always stood up and challenged said propaganda. Who do you think you are talking on behalf of, aside from 6 or 7 semi pro Championship clubs?

3) Please stop referring to the Championship as 'Community rugby'. It is simply not the case. Whilst some of the clubs trying to keep their head afloat in the Championship may once have been true community clubs, those days are gone. Community rugby starts at National 1 and below, as evidenced by the tackle height law changes not affecting the top 2 tiers, which are exempt.

Any league that houses fully pro sides like ET, Donny etc, can't be considered to be playing Community rugby.

4) I have had sight of the '3 polls' you created in a thinly veiled attempt to service your own agenda as a supporter of a club set to miss out when Premiership 2 is borne and semi pro clubs are removed. Quite frankly, they make laughable reading. The number of responses (or distinct lack of) should be all the evidence that you need to finally realise that, not only are you fighting a losing battle, but in all truth, no battle at all. It is viewed as a non-issue by the considerable masses that play and support rugby in this country. Several posters have pointed this out to you in different ways, yet you don't seem to be getting the message. To paraphrase, I think it was Einstein that coined the phrase about madness being the preserve of those who do the same thing again and again, expecting a different result. You would do well to take heed of this.

5) I am not a numbers man, of that I freely admit. You can examine the RFU administrative documents all you like with your background in finances, and then highlight the fine grain detail that fits your agenda to try and justify your discontent and coup d'etat against the RFU; but when all is said and done, it won't make a blind bit of difference. In 6 -12 months time, tell me I'm wrong.

There is nothing more I can add, other than to wish you well, in the hope that you can move on from this slightly unhealthy preoccupation of fighting a battle that isn't there to be fought, and to be at peace with yourself.

Berksrugby, I am highlighting issues I am very familiar with in a professional capacity. If everyone chooses to ignore my comments and completely disagree with me that is absolutely fine from my point of view. Having being asked the questions by others and encouraged to shed light on what I consider to be akin to a scandal I am perfectly at peace with myself. 

The problem is that without the TV contract for internationals, there is no income.

IF you split the sport, the professional game will take all of that.

And the game does need some administration.

As do all the things that the RFU is not currently doing, like marketing and increasing the number of RDOs, etc. The RFU currently spends little on this so a new entity could easily surpass this and provide 100 RDOs - see below

So we need to spend at least £50m a year on club rugby.

And even if all the clubs gave up their share to a new community rugby union - the capital could not generate that sort of money.

As the other poster pointed out quite rightly, several 100's of clubs would take the handout and run, with their clubs going under a short time later when the freebie ran out, mismanaged by clubmen who, although well intentioned, on the whole would squander such an amount of capital chasing short term glory. In no small part, unlike yourself as an accountant and numbers man, because they lack a grasp of financial common sense and business acumen.

I'm talking about the sorts of chairman, treasurers, presidents that harbour aspirations of elevating their club 'up the ladder' to fulfil their dreams and, in some cases, massage their egos in the community - I've seen it before, and it can have long lasting negative effects on players, coaches, and the whole fabric of a rugby club.

Like was also mentioned by someone, your idea would erode the actual community game (which in the truest sense is actually some way below the Championship), and in 5 to 10 years time you would have yet more land (formerly pitches 1 - 3 at 'Old Farts RFC') sold off to property developers to build more houses/flats that no one asked for.

This is not a realistic and progressive vision for rugby union in England that I can entertain, if only for the sake of the fact that I would like my grandchildren to actually still have a local club in existence to play at in the next few years.