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What are sky banging on with all this euphemistic talk about "changes in the game"? Just say what the hell is happening?
The complete board of the RFL has been ousted (long overdue) and the relationship between the SL and RFL is under review. There is also the NRL takeover potential. Do you think Nigel Wood is the right person to lead that review? Eamonn McManus seems to, which is an even more shocking indictment than a quick read through Wood's previous record in senior positions in the game. I'm not sure they had many alternatives for an emergency, temporary appointment and he seems to have the backing of the clubs. The statement from McManus pulls no punches. It read like all of McManus's rants to me; a childish tantrum. Good article by Aaron Bower (who I don't always love) puts things into perspective: For the third time in less than a decade, there will a review of the professional game. In 2017, the clubs decided it was time for change and they paid the governing body’s CEO, Nigel Wood, more than £300,000 to leave early. They brought in Robert Elstone and went through a review of the game. By 2021, he had gone.
The following year, the clubs unanimously approved a 12-year strategic partnership with IMG, which included, naturally, a review of how rugby league was operating. IMG, which is paid about £400,000, may now be pushed out after the clubs – yes, them again – decided they wanted more change at the RFL.
Their plan? Oust the chair, Simon Johnson, and bring back Wood – now in control at Bradford – on an interim basis to lead … a strategic review.Can you spot a theme? After eight years and seemingly endless reviews, the clubs, who now hold the power after giving themselves the right to bring back Wood, seem to be throwing the cards up in the air and seeing how they land.
The optics surrounding Wood’s return are terrible enough. You do not have to delve far to find a quote from an owner demanding it was time for change when he was on his way out, only to be lauding his return now as gamechanging. The St Helens owner, Eamonn McManus, said in 2018: “No one can credibly say that Super League and the game of rugby league in this country has in any way strengthened or improved over the last decade; quite the contrary I’m afraid.”
Now he says: “There could be no better qualified or motivated person than Nigel Wood to grab the game by the scruff of the neck.” It feels a move of pure regression. But the problems run much deeper than one man.
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What are sky banging on with all this euphemistic talk about "changes in the game"? Just say what the hell is happening?
The complete board of the RFL has been ousted (long overdue) and the relationship between the SL and RFL is under review. There is also the NRL takeover potential. Do you think Nigel Wood is the right person to lead that review? Eamonn McManus seems to, which is an even more shocking indictment than a quick read through Wood's previous record in senior positions in the game. I'm not sure they had many alternatives for an emergency, temporary appointment and he seems to have the backing of the clubs. The statement from McManus pulls no punches. It read like all of McManus's rants to me; a childish tantrum. Good article by Aaron Bower (who I don't always love) puts things into perspective: For the third time in less than a decade, there will a review of the professional game. In 2017, the clubs decided it was time for change and they paid the governing body’s CEO, Nigel Wood, more than £300,000 to leave early. They brought in Robert Elstone and went through a review of the game. By 2021, he had gone.
The following year, the clubs unanimously approved a 12-year strategic partnership with IMG, which included, naturally, a review of how rugby league was operating. IMG, which is paid about £400,000, may now be pushed out after the clubs – yes, them again – decided they wanted more change at the RFL.
Their plan? Oust the chair, Simon Johnson, and bring back Wood – now in control at Bradford – on an interim basis to lead … a strategic review.Can you spot a theme? After eight years and seemingly endless reviews, the clubs, who now hold the power after giving themselves the right to bring back Wood, seem to be throwing the cards up in the air and seeing how they land.
The optics surrounding Wood’s return are terrible enough. You do not have to delve far to find a quote from an owner demanding it was time for change when he was on his way out, only to be lauding his return now as gamechanging. The St Helens owner, Eamonn McManus, said in 2018: “No one can credibly say that Super League and the game of rugby league in this country has in any way strengthened or improved over the last decade; quite the contrary I’m afraid.”
Now he says: “There could be no better qualified or motivated person than Nigel Wood to grab the game by the scruff of the neck.” It feels a move of pure regression. But the problems run much deeper than one man.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/22/from-one-crisis-to-another- | |
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Two pointless games today that just hand massive for and against to HKR and Pies. That's why the games a joke.
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Wigan getting a free 2 points after another weakened Salford side. We don’t play them until July 4th? no doubt they’ll have gotten their house in order by then and there will be no advantage for us.
The "free 2 points" is one thing but when you think about what that really means it's deeper than the 'just' two points when it comes to a league programme based on merit. In the fairest sense, Wigan and Salford's previous opponents didn't have to fight for those points, they didn't earn a massive points difference, there was no jeopardy in the game. Wigan could pick and choose their line up (they have every right BTW) based on what they up against, they could rest those with knocks, blood a youngster, rotate the bench to keep their strike players fresh for tougher weeks ahead. It totally skews the league standings across the whole season, it's an opposed training session. It shouldn't have come to this | | | |
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Wigan getting a free 2 points after another weakened Salford side. We don’t play them until July 4th? no doubt they’ll have gotten their house in order by then and there will be no advantage for us.
The "free 2 points" is one thing but when you think about what that really means it's deeper than the 'just' two points when it comes to a league programme based on merit. In the fairest sense, Wigan and Salford's previous opponents didn't have to fight for those points, they didn't earn a massive points difference, there was no jeopardy in the game. Wigan could pick and choose their line up (they have every right BTW) based on what they up against, they could rest those with knocks, blood a youngster, rotate the bench to keep their strike players fresh for tougher weeks ahead. It totally skews the league standings across the whole season, it's an opposed training session. It shouldn't have come to this Very true. Warrington will just have to ensure they are not reliant on points difference to finish in the top 2 positions of the regular season. That is in their hands, of the teams above us in the league, we have to play Hull KR twice, Hull FC twice, Wigan home, Saints home. Plus those teams have to play each other and they cannot both win. | | | |
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A few years ago I’d probably say no to an eight team NRL Europe. However, RL is dying a slow death, managed decline, and it needs something radical to grow. I’ll take a strong 8-team comp with the smaller clubs in a reformed lower Suoer League. London, Cats, Warrington, Wigan, Leeds, Saints and the two Hull clubs all in the NRL-E.
NRL branding to keep it sounding ‘national’ and use all their expertise to run it. Grow slowly from there with the addition of another French club when able.
If it doesn’t work we haven’t lost anything really. How much longer can we even stay known outside of the M62 corridor. An ageing fan base, and some prehistoric facilities. Did anyone see the Cas Cats game? It was like watching a VHS of a 1980s Micron video rental.
Im all in.
I'm not disagreeing with you but to have only 7 other teams to play against is going to get tedious. It's already bad enough with the loop fixtures! | | | |
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