We emphasised in our final assertion our principled objections to a franchise or selection-based Tier 2. Fairly than search to debate these objections and others, the RFU has chosen to threaten us with efficient relegation to the Nationwide Leagues for non-compliance, whereas ignoring the unresolved questions on governance, industrial technique, promotion/relegation, participant welfare and the participant growth pathway. We have now provided different proposals on the way in which ahead to the Board with out response.
The present RFU plan to current any advice to Council is extraordinarily untimely, till such basic points are addressed and consensus reached in order that the sport can transfer ahead through settlement quite than ultimatum. We’d enchantment to Council to not approve any plans for Tier 2 till our proposals are mentioned intimately and there may be full readability on these basic points.
We have now mentioned this matter with Sport England as a result of with out additional readability on funding and governance, it will likely be inconceivable to make sure that Championship golf equipment are in a position to repay their Covid loans. We imagine they share our considerations.
We imagine that no membership can place worth on a course of involving expressions of curiosity when there may be so little essential element.Nevertheless, we will solely act for ourselves: consequently the 11 present Championship golf equipment request that the Board units an pressing date to listen to in full our amended proposals – proposals which share all the RFU’s targets, albeit reached through completely different routes which we think about achievable, pragmatic and stuffed with imaginative and prescient for the long run progress of the sport.Â