I don't want to be accused of being a club licker (after all, I was there playing my part at the Night of the Long Knives) but I don't think Sussex are in that much of a state. Yes, we're in the second division but we only lost two CC games last year (and one of those when were playing half our...
I wouldn't say Woodward changed rugby root and branch. He won the WC, which was a fine achievement, but he didn't build on it and the England rugby team stumbled for the next decade. If he had transformed it, they'd have kept on winning. And he didn't solve the clash between country and clubs...
Slight difference is that Andrew won't have anything to do with playing matters (although I believe he was a useful cricketer), Woodward did get involved on the playing side
EDIT: Just checked and he had a FC average of 21 with one century
I'm not sure that his record as an administrator is...