Rugby Football Union CEO Bill Sweeney convincingly survived a vote of no-confidence at Twickenham on Thursday as a grassroots revolt failed to get close to the majority of votes necessary to trigger his removal.
The motion to remove him got 206 votes, with 466 against and 36 abstentions. A counter-motion presented by the RFU that would give the community game more independence to run the game at local level was supported by 554 votes, with 127 against and 24 abstentions.
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