Finchley RFC chairman expresses outrage over RFU CEO Bill Sweeney's £1.1 million salary and £358,000 bonus, highlighting the disconnect between elite rugby and the struggles of grassroots clubs.
Bill Sweeney's pay packet is 'nonsensical', 'laughable' and 'detached from reality' for clubs like Finchley RFC who keep the game alive at grassroots level. The clubhouse at Finchley RFC is buzzing: men and women and children coming and going, laughing and joking, jostling at the bar, patting the heads of well-behaved dogs.
There is chat about the foundations for a container to house a pile of donated gym equipment, plates of curry doled out to the players of the first and second teams trooping in from their matches under cold but clear skies, and, blimey, have you heard about Lily, the 17-year-old joining up with next week’s England Under-18s? “Well done, Lily, we couldn’t be prouder!” An emergency meeting of the RFU Council on Wednesday debated the scale and the methodology of awards such as the chief executive Bill Sweeney receiving an incentive payment of £358,000 on top of his £742,000 salary, for a wage of £1.1m. Talk is rife of votes of no confidence. The RFU’s operating loss was almost £40m in an always challenging And yes, here on this Saturday in this smart but small clubhouse, they want to have the debate – and with common sense in abundance. Finchley RFC’s chairman, George Loureda, is chief engineer for the London Borough of Camden, he understands the world and the sport that is his passionate hobby. His reaction is not of the knee-jerk variety, and therefore all the more salutary for the well-paid types at Twickenham.“It’s nonsensical; it has no connection. A million quid is a lifetime’s achievement of our whole rugby club and a whole community of volunteers pulling together. £300,000 as a bonus? There’s clearly a contractual arrangement, and somebody approved it. I don’t think grassroots would have approved i
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