The crisis at the top of English rugby erupts as rebels call for a final confrontation over Rugby Football Union's embattled chief executive Bill Sweeney
The crisis at the top of English rugby erupted on Thursday evening as grassroots rebels broke cover to demand Bill Sweeney be sacked, only for the Rugby Football Union to reject a petition for a vote on their under-fire chief executive's future.
However, they also attacked the RFU leadership's failure to do more to save liquidated clubs such as London Irish, Wasps, Worcester and Jerseys Reds,the money spent in paying out the contracts of fired England coaches and a "loss of confidence and trust in the leadership of the game" among "the thousands of volunteers who keep the game alive".
"The letter contains a number of inaccuracies," the RFU added in a statement. "It does not comply with the relevant requirements and is therefore invalid as a requisition for an SGM." "Splitting hairs about the rules of what is or isn't a valid complaint form is merely postponing the inevitable. If Sweeney's critics can provide the paperwork to show the necessary support, a special general meeting would be called in the midst of the men's Six Nations."The recent decision of the RFU to award bonuses to senior staff is beyond belief," said David Morton, secretary of sixth-tier Carlisle.
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