Twickenham to cut workforce by 30% due to Covid-19Grassroots development also likely to be badly hitEngland’s women’s and sevens squads will bear the brunt of the Rugby
Football Union’s cost-cutting along with grassroots development, according to a leaked document, as Twickenham prunes its 594-strong workforce by 30% following the
Coronavirus lockdown.
The document, seen by the Guardian, shows that the RFU, which has budgeted for losses of £107m, is shielding its revenue-making departments from the full impact of the cuts but the 234-strong workforce responsible for rugby development in the community will shrink from 234 to 130. The number of contracted players in the sevens and women’s games, meanwhile, will almost halve, dropping from 58 to 30 with the men’s and women’s sevens likely to be more heavily affected.