The Rules of the RFU are staggeringly undemocratic

But whilst clubs can still play rugby each week, the decisions of the RFU mean nothing to them. 

You need specifics. 

For example by giving the Premiership clubs £X millions or by having franchises in the Championship or by splitting National 1 into North and South ,what effect does it have on Old Farts RFC playing at level 8?

The RFU isn't owned by Bill Sweeney or by the Constituent Bodies or by CVC (yet!) it is owned by the clubs all 2,000+ of them. King Billy and his non elected courtiers have already sold 14% of the RFU's income in perpetuity from the Six Nations to CVC.......when will King Billy decide to sell Twickenham to CVC.

Do you think this can't happen? 

With no real checks and balances in place the un elected board of the RFU can do what they like. 

Former RFU CEO Ian Ritchie gave the 12 Premiership Clubs an amazing sweetheart deal for umpteen years and then left the RFU .......to join the PRL as Chairman! He obviously didn't think that was somewhat unethical given his pivotal role in negotiatiing the RFU's agreement with the PRL. Personally I found it more than distasteful ...........does no one else care?

What if King Billy and the board of the RFU thought selling Twickenham to CVC was another brilliant idea. What is to stop them doing that? As far as I can see absolutely nothing......

It appears to me the RFU is now running rugby in England for the benefit of the Premiership and CVC and not for the benefit of the RFU's member clubs

King Billy has publicly deemed the Championship 'not to be investable'. This is CVC language not the language of someone who has the responsibility for all of rugby in England.

As Camquin has said 

-RDO's effectively gone

-Financial Support for travel gone

-Grants/loans for facilities and infrastructure gone

-Cost of referees increased

-Funding for the Championship reduced from £600k to £150k and soon to be gone

-Twickenham??

In my view King Billy and the board are likely to preside over the demise of Community Rugby in England and hand ever more power to the Premiership Cartel (10 independent business owned by billionaires) and CVC one of the world's biggest private equity organisations that is only interested in profit..........there is nothing to stop them doing this ......because there is no oversight or governance to stop them and of course no one appears to care .....

Can any one show me any substantive financial action by the RFU in recent times that fairly allocated resources to the 2,000 or so Community Clubs rather than to the 10 Premiership Clubs or the Elite International Game or CVC!

In my view club rugby in England is sleepwalking to disaster! I am no Don Quixote and if no-one  cares I suppose I should just shut up......at the end of the day it is only a game

I can sell that vision fairly easily. 

As at June 23 Twickenham is sitting in the books of the RFU at a value of some £250m and the RFU has total net assets of £283m

On the basis that I believe King Billy could sell out Twickenham to CVC and divert the cash to the elite game and the Premiership here is my alternative.

1. Member clubs put forward a resolution to sell Twickenham and the rest of the RFU's assets to the highest bidder - after settling creditors and on the basis it currently isn't a forced sale I expect the pot to be considerably north of £1 billion (10 x 2023 Operating profit of £103m before Rugby Investment)

2. The £1 billion is distributed proportionately to Member clubs - say £500k each

3. The Premiership clubs each get £500k as do the Community Clubs

4. King Billy and CVC look after the running of the Elite game and the Premiership.

5. The Community Clubs set up their own organisation which is likely to comprise the handful of people that the RFU previously employed to look after the Community Game

This should happen because otherwise all the underlying assets that in reality belong to the Member clubs will be syphoned off to the uninvestable Premiership