Grassroots rebellion over executive pay has now seen the chair of the RFU board stand down how did it come to this? When the Rugby Football Union published its annual report at the end of November, on the back of a lacklustre autumn campaign for England, it emerged the chief executive, Bill Sweeney, was paid 1.1m for the year ending June 2024, which included a one-off 358,000 bonus as part of a long-term incentive plan (L
