Daily Telegraph columnist Brian Moore does not hold back in the wake Martyn Thomas' exit from the Rugby Football Union.
"They probably think they are now safe, having offered up a sacrifice and securing Thomas’s removal as acting CEO from Dec 16 and also from his proposed chairmanship of England 2015, the company that is to oversee the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
"They should not be safe because they only removed him due to pressure from the media and the special general meeting threatened by disaffected clubs.
"Only days ago the RFU president, Willie Wildash, and acting chairman Paul Murphy, were dismissing criticism of the arrangements and urging us all to move forward and concentrate on rugby and the record profits they wanted to highlight.
"Why has it taken these dramatic steps to produce action and how can English rugby settle for the continued management of a board that created this mess and did not rectify it until impelled? Whatever they may say to the contrary, they cannot honestly claim that they would have taken these steps of their own accord."
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