RFU Make Massive Job cuts

Bill Sweeney more like Sweeney Todd the demon butcher of Twickenham!

I believe 12 of the new roles are for gin waiters at HQ.

You need to get 100 clubs to call for a special general meeting to consider either

 - a vote of no confidence on the current board

 - the dissolution of the RFU and the return of its assets to its members.

But remember that the opponents of the Shah called for his otherthorw. They certainly acheieved to removal of one Lovely regime. I am not sure they replaced itwith anything better.

BTW has ther been an AGM this year?

Yes, it was held via Zoom on the scheduled date and was better attended than the normal face-to-face AGM.

From about 2005 onwards the RFU went from an organisation run by "rugby" people to a "professionally" run business bringing in people with supposed business acumen. These "pros" put things together and presented them to the Council to "rubber-stamp" very few proposals got rejected including the enlargement of Community Rugby Department, the Plastic Pitch project and expansion of facilities at Twickenham. Lets not mention the financial agreement made with PRL by a bloke who then left the RFU and joined PRL.........

The Covid crisis has shown the complete House of Cards the game is not just the RFU.

Bill Sweeney in the last two months alone has said in various statements and interviews how important the "Community Game" is.......... then CBs had their funding pulled, the Aspirational Pathways got pulled and now all the RFU Community staff have been made redundant. I'm guessing that a "new" streamlined Community Department will emerge with some of the ex-staff getting a role within in it, My guess is a lot of the new staff will be young, enthusiastic and cheap(er) than some of their older ex-colleagues. By reducing the areas from 6 to 4, the needs for Regional Managers goes down by 33% and I wouldn't be surprised if the have 2 Regional Managers North/Mids and South West/LSE to save another 33% on overheads. Locally the new er.. Community Game Development Officers (they've used up all the good names already) will i expect be managed by the CBs locally, not sure how you manage 1 or 2 CGDOs in a county the size of Yorkshire for example!

According to Mr Sweeney it will take 5 years to build things back up? Will it? Will the RFU want to build it backup, moreover who would want to join a organisation that has made cuts of its support staff of around 30% two years ago and nearly 100% now?

MB that budget can be slashed by carrying on as now, Zoom calls, no need to pay expenses for travel!

From the Cornwall RFU Website.

CLUDO and COMPO?

Piff regardless of the Councils role in the decision making process their budget is simply ridiculous