Writing in The Observer, Eddie Butler outlines who he thinks should get what role in the RFU shake-up.
"It is the unanimous opinion of the authors that the next chief executive officer of the Rugby Football Union shall be a woman. Having conducted probing analysis of the male contribution to rugby's governance, it is their conclusion that English men over 40 think clearly only when panting. The over-mature hunter-gatherer needs to feel the pang of hunger and the perspiration of pursuit before he functions effectively.
"Allow him to settle into an office-bound, sedentary lifestyle and he falls prey to indolence and inefficiency, where the only activity likely to stir him is the protection of his ticket allocation. English men need to be aerobically challenged, leaving English women to organise and lead. Attention to detail is their watchword. England are not called rugby's mother country for nothing.
"And who might this Boudicca be? Tempted by the need to stamp out treachery, there was initial interest in Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller and Dame Stella Rimington, presuming them to be two separate people (with heads of the intelligence service it is not always easy to tell)."
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