English Rugby's Bonuses Scandal Explained.

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@HuwGriffinRugby 2 ай бұрын

UPDATES SINCE VIDEO PUBLISHED: 1) The RFU held an emergency meeting at Twickenham on Monday where leadership confronted staff, but did not field questions live during the session only presubmitted ones 2) the RFU hired an American consultancy firm post pandemic to advise them on senior leadership salaries and bonuses 3) the RFU promoted 10 senior managers to be directors to include them in the bonus scheme 4) The Twickenham naming rights deal is thought to only add around £4m per year, rather than the £10m the public were led to believe 5) a Financial Times journalist said: "This is a reward for mediocrity/failure on a grand scale. Almost as bad as bankers in global financial crisis." 6) the RFU president has said the negativity over the bonuses is ‘media spin’ and supported Sweeney/Illube 7) the RFU cancelled their Xmas party this year to cut costs 8) the reported £34m loss in 2019 appears to be incorrect, the previous record loss was £30.9m in 2018 9) the President of the RFU called a meeting with grassroots leaders to try and quell a rebellion 10) the 12 championship clubs and the 12 National League 1 clubs have written to the RFU president to call for a special general meeting to debate a vote of no confidence 11) on the 18th of December the RFU announced a review of it's executive pay scheme, hiring an independent law firm to conduct that review. 12) the BBC understands that 187 English grassroots clubs support a vote of no confidence in Sweeney & Illube, the threshold for a successful rebellion is 100. 13) the total number of redundancies the RFU made since the pandemic is 147. 14) On the 19th of December the RFU dismissed reports that Tom Ilube was to resign as 'speculation'. 15) on the 20th of December, Tom Ilube resigned. 16) 72 year old former world rugby chairman Bill Beaumont has now taken over as RFU chairman 17) A British MP has called on the government to step on the RFU bonuses saga to prevent rugby in England from 'dying' 18) The RFU have hired a crisis management firm to help with it's reputation damage due to the scandal at a cost of 5,000 pounds a day 19) Sweeney appeared on a podcast to defend his position, insisting he will not ‘walk away’ 20) he claimed he wanted to defer his bonus, but said he would not be giving it back or donating it to charity 21) Sweeney argued he is doing a good job, with the union now having zero debt, and said the bonus was due to ‘exceptional circumstances’

@TomWatkeys 2 ай бұрын

If you're the CEO of any organisation, and get rid of even 1 worker to "save costs" and then pay yourself a bonus - straight to jail

@OllieTattersall 2 ай бұрын

At least we know where the money for our £120+ ticket prices and £8 for a pint of Guinness are going...

@iainmackay7915 2 ай бұрын

So that’s why Twickenham prices are utterly ridiculous. Greed ruins everything!

@vannessar32 2 ай бұрын

So what does he actually do?. We've seen the demise of Wasps, Worcester Warriors and London Irish. And, how do you manage to lose 39 million quid?. Where's the money gone?.

@Camcolito 2 ай бұрын

He attends meeting and wears a suit, serious business.

@dalek3086 2 ай бұрын

and the demise of London Welsh

@gs8494 2 ай бұрын

@@dalek3086 Jersey Reds too.

@robertwaye803 2 ай бұрын

Theses greedy old fools are killing rugby selfish fools ?

@KieranKelly-o9s 2 ай бұрын

The salary is feckin unbelievable

@leplessis8179 2 ай бұрын

Sweeney may well pop up as PM next - getting paid a HUGE amount for doing absolutely nothing. Get the blighter out!

@OscarOSullivan 2 ай бұрын

The John Delaney of Rugby Union. I would hate to see the six nations behind a paywall.

@johnstrac 2 ай бұрын

It is doing

@John-ny7jn 2 ай бұрын

There’s a petition going around for him to be sacked

@davidantoine8296 2 ай бұрын

Good he should be gone have u got a link for that petition?

@KandiKlover 2 ай бұрын

Where’s the opposing petition to sign for him to be promoted? 😂

@John-ny7jn 2 ай бұрын

@@KandiKlover yeh I’d be pretty happy with him too if I weren’t English

@christianmccann9400 2 ай бұрын

To sack him . . He will have to be paid off .. COSTLY

@davidantoine8296 2 ай бұрын

@@christianmccann9400 to keep him would require paying this guy bonuses every year despite doing a bad job… COSTLY

@HuwGriffinRugby 2 ай бұрын

Does this scandal show the RFU needs reform?

@MrAhuapai 2 ай бұрын

This type of executive/ CEO culture is rife right throughout the world. How can you pay out bonuses when the organisation is haemorrhaging money and in the red. The recession 2007 was a classic example of financial organisations paying out bonuses when they are being bailed out by the Government.

@KernowekTim 2 ай бұрын

Beaumont and Sweeney: deceit, greed and gluttony personified.

@TheWelshSportsPodcast 2 ай бұрын

The wasps jersey is an excellent touch 👏🏼😂

@HuwGriffinRugby 2 ай бұрын

haha cheers mate! thought you were good on WRRAP the other week 👍

@TheWelshSportsPodcast 2 ай бұрын

@ cheers mate. Much appreciated. Been really enjoying your vids, so great insights 👌🏼

@olglez9230 2 ай бұрын

This is why I have no interest in English rugby now. I'd rather watch the Top 14 or URC

@HuwGriffinRugby 2 ай бұрын

great leagues!

@24hr_rugby_jake 2 ай бұрын

Ah yes, so even though the premiership is brilliant right now and clubs are trying really hard, you abandon English rugby because of one man. What a fan you are mate

@John-ny7jn 2 ай бұрын

The Premiership as a product is still very strong as Newcastle beating Saracens has shown by all means watch Top14 or URC for the entertainment value but don’t let one man ruin what is clearly still a strong entertaining product despite the financial troubles

@KandiKlover 2 ай бұрын

South Africa and Argentina is way better anyways.

@John-ny7jn 2 ай бұрын

@@KandiKlover what does this even mean there is no major Argentina league and SA teams just bottle URC finals 😂

@davidpearn2484 2 ай бұрын

Pigs around the troughs.

@ph5849 2 ай бұрын

Sweeney and SB are wasting England’s rugby time! Both have to go, to move forward in the RIGHT direction!!!

@vinniechan 2 ай бұрын

If you want to chalk the loss up to RWC yr than laying off of the staff is quite inexcusable as the RWC yr should have been factored in Apart from Sweeney, we need to take a look at the board as they decide the pay

@Samizouza 2 ай бұрын

Perks of working for the richest rugby union, at the expense of 3 Premiership clubs getting axed over the years.

@roderickherbert7233 2 ай бұрын

SHAME SHAME ..ON THEM......

@ericcorry1199 2 ай бұрын

No wonder the normal working person is finding it difficult to buy top match tickets due to cost

@aleccastro4761 2 ай бұрын

Shameful

@ColinHirst-m8j 2 ай бұрын

Sorry why are we surprised. Corruption equals prison.

@Wolf-hh4rv 2 ай бұрын

These positions should be held by people who love the sport . This reminds of corruption in SA. Theft, how many hours did this parasite work every day ?

@HeartShapedBox93 2 ай бұрын

This should be a job of passion. No salary needed other than basic costs.

@EasyTiger.01343 2 ай бұрын

Just to be clear, £180,000 per year would put him in the top 2% of salaries in the UK. The additional £800,000 he’s being paid,well that’s probably for his “intangibles”. And imagine how many other inflated salaries there are helping him achieve his spectacular successes at the RFU. Dream Team 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@bl4384 2 ай бұрын

They like to say that they earn so much because of their responsibilities etc. Therefore the loss of revenue should be divided up between these "bosses" and deducted frowm their salaries/personal assets...

@michaelmccarthy9411 2 ай бұрын

You can't have 5 times less. It's called one fifth!

@PeacockRhino 2 ай бұрын

Even if Sweeney had hit all the targets his salary is absolutely disgusting in a sport where hundreds of grass roots club houses and first team pitches in the country could be redeveloped with the money that’s been spent on these bonuses. The game is in absolute crisis in England. And don’t console yourself with the women - they are one of only two proper professional sides the other being NZ. It’s hardly an achievement for pros to beat amateurs.