Former England captain Tom Wooden has landed a key position on Premiership Rugby’s new sporting fee, because the league appears to remodel how the membership recreation is run.

It comes after a disastrous interval off the sphere, with Worcester, Wasps and London Irish all going out of enterprise.

Wooden gained 50 caps for England, retiring in 2022 after a 15-year profession.

The previous flanker gained two Six Nations titles in 2011 and 2017, captaining the nationwide aspect on their tour of Argentina in 2013, and led Northampton to the Premiership title in 2014.

He’ll present a participant’s perspective as a part of the seven-person fee, which can embody three extra impartial figures from sport and enterprise.

It’s understood Ministry of Justice board member Mark Rawlinson, who was a part of the “Pink Knights” group which tried to purchase Manchester United in 2010, can even be a part of the fee, as will main soccer govt Jane Purdon and governance professional Carys Williams.

The panel will probably be chaired by Premiership Rugby official Nigel Melville and also will embody chief govt Simon Massie-Taylor and rugby director Phil Winstanley.

The group has been given the facility to make choices on behalf of the ten remaining Premiership golf equipment over essential areas such because the calendar and season construction, in a bid to keep away from the battle and vested pursuits that has hamstrung the league’s decision-making course of.

As outlined final December, different governance adjustments will embody the institution of a monetary monitoring panel, which can oversee all membership funds in a bid to keep away from the fates that befell Worcester, Wasps and London Irish.

In the meantime, talks proceed over a brand new Skilled Sport Settlement between the Premiership, the Rugby Soccer Union and the Rugby Gamers’ Affiliation, as the sport in England desperately makes an attempt to recuperate from the calamitous occasions of the previous 9 months.