Tom Ilube, who stepped down as RFU chairman on Friday, has been thrown under the bus by his fellow English rugby big wigs.
Chief executive Bill Sweeney is also very much in danger of losing his position at the helm of English rugby.
The furore that has hit the governing body in the wake of the revelation that huge bonuses were paid to Sweeney and his fellow top brass at a time when the RFU were making 40 redundancies and announcing a loss of £37million has been entirely just. But the bonuses are just the tip of the iceberg. The problems at the RFU are so much bigger than just financial.
They aren’t going to change with Ilube gone as chairman and with Sir Bill Beaumont replacing him on an interim basis. Late on Wednesday night, the RFU issued a statement following a council meeting to discuss concerns raised by the controversial bonuses.
They talked of opening an internal inquiry to investigate the ‘reputational damage done to the…
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