The Blackett Report

What happened to it? What's the current situation? Does anyone know? It recommended the resignation of Martyn Thomas and the whole board apart from Bill Beaumont, so it can't have just been forgotten about.

I think Thomas filed an injunction (or similar) to stop the release of the report to the public. The RFU boardroom is currently a war zone with rumours of a third vote of no confidence on the horizon for Martyn Thomas. I don't think it's been forgotten about I just think there's complete disarray at the top and there's so much infighting going on that no ones had chance to bring it up, the iffy performance at the RWC hasn't helped.

formerly known as Sam wrote:I think Thomas filed an injunction (or similar) to stop the release of the report to the public. The RFU boardroom is currently a war zone with rumours of a third vote of no confidence on the horizon for Martyn Thomas. I don't think it's been forgotten about I just think there's complete disarray at the top and there's so much infighting going on that no ones had chance to bring it up, the iffy performance at the RWC hasn't helped.

I thought Thomas had withdrawn the threat of legal action though? Maybe it's just been pushed to one side for the time being.

As I replied on the other thread, I've just seen that Fran Cotton is going to conduct an independent review into the RFU. What happened to John Steele's review? Whether or not he messed up the Performance Director job description (and the Blackett report indicated that this was much less his fault than was reported), his initial ideas were still voted through.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/england/8822387/Rugby-World-Cup-2011-former-RFU-vice-chairman-Fran-Cotton-will-head-up-review-of-entire-England-structure.html

I believe the full report has been sent to all the clubs but the WC has rather sidelined it as a news topic. Fran Cotton is an excellent choice to do a review. He's been very outspoken and he's been on the inside until relatively recently. I hope there's plenty to act on in his report. Good man with both a rugby and business brain.

Blackett report is in the public domain now. Read an article on all this earlier. They've launched an independent review into their own governance through a legal firm (Slaughter and someone), Rob Andrew is reviewing the World Cup failure (even though that's no longer in his job description since they re-assigned him) and Fran Cotton is leading a 3-man review of Rob Andrew's review, or something like that.

It's a ******* joke, only I'm not laughing.

robbo277 wrote:Blackett report is in the public domain now.

Brian Moore on twitter gave an email address to write to and he'd send you a copy. The contents are all well known by now, it's just a question of whether, and if so, when, it's recommendations get implemented.

That is a lot of 'reviewing'

Fran Cotton is doing a review,is that instead of Rob Andrew?does it mean
he is cleaning up Augean Stable that is the RFU?
Does it mean the fat cats,with there V.I.P boxes,Lunches,First Class flights
and the rest of the pigs in the trough bit.
Be replaced by people who can,select coaches,sort out fixturelists,and all that is required to get RWC2015.
Be a fairly contested one where hopefully England 2015 regain there RWC.?