RFU makes changes to original scheduling of cutsBill Sweeney says RFU ‘still in dialogue with clubs’The Rugby
Football Union has revised the timeframe for its cuts to Championship funding in response to the outcry generated by its controversial decision.
Twickenham announced last week that it would almost halve payments to each club to only £288,000 per year under the new terms for the 2020-21 season. The Championship clubs reacted furiously amid claims redundancies would be inevitable and that the drastic reduction would spell the end of the second tier of English rugby as a professional league. But the RFU’s chief executive, Bill Sweeney, has now changed the original schedule for the cuts to take place over two seasons.