A Welsh rugby club has urged the Welsh Rugby Union to reconsider their plans to modernise their governance, hitting out at the 'do or die' pressure they feel the Union are putting on clubs.
An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on Sunday 26 March, where plans to modernise the Union's Board will be put forward to the clubs. Those plans, outlined at the start of February, include proposals that the Board’s next chair should be an appointed Independent Non-Executive Director (INED) rather than someone elected by clubs, that its composition should include at least five women out of the 12 members and that its skill-set should be significantly more diverse.
The WRU's radical proposals will double the number of independent representatives (INEDs), who are appointed rather than elected, on the Board from three to six and reduce the number of elected national or district members, elected from the WRU Council, from eight to four. You can read the plan in full here.
