Esplager: Next thing for the English rugby after Bill Sweeney survives Rfu no vote of trust?

Despite the support, many members have not supported it (35%): what can they do now? Will they do something more?

Despite the suggestions before the SGM which would be only the beginning, not the end, of the rebellion, Sweeney’s opponents hit a more reconciling tone when they spoke following the BBC.

They underlined that forcing the SGM and making the RFU card respond to the game in general was a victory in itself.

In the meantime, a second motion, which the Council has carried out, to donate more responsibilities to the game of the community seems to have made a lot to keep silent about the revolt.

“We want to work together,” said Paddy Mcalpine, president of the Chichester Rugby Club and Coprestrine from all over the Game Union (WGU).

“What is really encouraging tonight is that all those rugby players throughout the nation from the smallest club until the championship now have a voice.

“And they consider the leaders of the leadership of our game.

“It was never an individual,” added Alistair Bow, president of the Nottingham championship club and WGG corsoning.

“We heard that the game suffered to the point that we had to take a look at the top. We went to the game and the vote was chosen.

“But in reality we got what we needed. There were no winners and losers from the beginning, but what we did is that we brought our situation to the entire game.

“The game had an opportunity (to express concerns) and tonight there were some very interesting questions.

“And it was seen that there was a good percentage of people voted for him.”

Why has Sweeney’s bonus have not been discussed and how significant is it?

Surprisingly, the pay package and the Sweeney bonus were barely discussed during the 90 -minute meeting, despite being the catalyst who gathered the base first.

A report by Freshfields consultants in the controversial bonus plan was published by the RFU in February and while this report has raised more questions than answers, in particular around the metrics and methods of the regime, it did enough to turn on the attention elsewhere.

What is clear from the questions raised during the meeting and by the national roadshows of the last few months is the way the complaints Variano-Dai Club of the unhappy championship for their financing cuts and have blocked the routes to the premiership, to the Rang-and-File referees put in an envious position by the confused peeer change of the Union.

In the meantime, some community clubs have spoken of how they do not feel represented while other clubs have mentioned the lack of rugby skills – according to them – on the Board of Directors of the RFU, as well as the current concerns about the sustainability of the professional game.

The ideological conflicts on what is the RFU, those who serve and those who should make decisions again.

But without the revolt, Sweeney and Beaumont would not have embarked on the roadshow and could have remained protected to the various complaints heard up and down the English rugby pyramid.

“We had thousands of clubs in Club House up and down the country in recent weeks,” explained Beaumont.

“Some feedbacks have been difficult to listen to, but most was constructive. We listened. We replied.

“It is absolutely right that the members must always have the opportunity to take into account the leadership of the RFU. This is part of our democratic process as an organization of ownership of belonging.”