article_snippet: This led RFU chairman Bill Beaumont to tell a member of staff:
article_snippet: ‘We’ve got a major problem here.
article_snippet: But staffing levels at ER 2015 are known to concern RFU RFU with nearly 200 already on the ER 2015 payroll.
article_snippet: Sources say Ian Ritchie walked through ER2015’s expanded office space recently, wondering what the huge army of employees actually did.
article_snippet: The 1991 World Cup, hosted by five unions, had been organised by less than 25 full-time staff — not many more than turned up on the ER 2015 team recently to arrange a single fanzone.
article_snippet: Ian RitchieER2015’s desire to curb ER2015 excess and bring the organising committee into the bosom of RFU can be seen by the installation of RFU finance director Stephen Brown as the new ER2015 managing director.
article_snippet: But their have to take some of the blame for the crazy structure of the Rugby World Cup where their receive an £80million guarantee but still keep sponsorship, corporate hospitality and TV rights while leaving the host nation and the organising committee to sell the tickets and fight for recognition.