In the latest edition of NCA Chats, Bill Sweeney, CEO of the Rugby Football Union, spoke to Joe Harvey and Chris Heal about the community game.

Since taking up his role with the RFU, Sweeney says that he has been keeping right up to date with events below the second division.

“I made a pledge when I first came on, to almost every Saturday try and go to a community game, as opposed to a professional game,” Sweeney said. “I tend to go level three and below. When you go around the country, wherever it is, whether it is in Yorkshire, in Lancashire, Surrey or wherever, the values are the same and the atmosphere is the same and the spirit is the same.

“The camaraderie in a rugby club, the commitment and the passionate that goes into it; what that does for a community, for me that is the most inspiring, and the main reason, I do the job. For me, the community game, it is more than a game isn’t it? It is a way of life and a network of lifelong friends.”

You can watch the entirety of Bill Sweeney’s NCA Chat on YouTube below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2t-b-jflFQ