Apparently paid £314k last year, that's a hell of a lot of pies, still the lad needs to keep his strength up

Worth his weight in gold, eh?!

That is disgraceful and just about sums the RFL up. I wonder what his mates at Red Hall are pocketing? P.S note I didn't say earning. Sportsman shudds. Mallinsons Simcoe 3.9% Mmm!

If he is, the gold price has fallen dramatically.

What a disgraceful amount of money for such a small organisation it is totally unjustified, Chief Executives of local authorities get nowhere near that amount and they run organisations with thousands of staff and responsibility for social services, children's welfare, education, local markets, roads, refuse collection etc...
The Prime Minister (no matter what people think of them) gets less than half that amount and they run the bloody country!!!

Regardless of political opinion, I've always thought that the top positions in parliament are poorly paid given the grief they get, plus the enormous stress and 24x7 call on their time. Albeit there are "fringe" benefits to be had. It could be argued that regular MP's don't do too badly.

We may not like or agree with what Nigel Wood and his Red Hall team do, but it's a reasonably high-profile job, and not without its stresses or problems. However, they've not exactly had overwhelming success progressing the game, and a £314k salary is just plain bonkers.

I would'nt get out of bed for that..Ask Charlie,he knows.

How much is the salary cap for championship teams?

Maybe he could could make up the 13th super league team by himself on that money must be worth the pack and a couple of halfbacks.

Fiddles while Rome burns.

Making his money while there is still time.

I would just love to see a strategy short, medium, long term with some measurables which we could hold him and his team against.

Measurables, well his waist line but I don't fancy being held against that.

Well if my maths are right £62K Increase in 2 years is 24.6% +£24K in his pension pot nice work if you can get it.What 4 non-executive directors for a total of £160.6k especially Brian Barwick do to earn that.
A senior management committee whoever they are costing £673,377 in 2016.
The Game has regressed falling attendances the amateur game in chaos no coherent strategy or forward planning Nigel&Co blithely rearranging deckchairs while the Good Ship RFL sails into oblivion.







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It would be Totally ignored what do we Loyal Supporters know it Totally infuriates me what these people
have done to OUR Game.
We all know that the Sport is run by SKY & certain Super League Chairmen we had better do as we are told or our funding will be reduced.
Its about as Democratic as that other rotten corrupt unaccountable unelected self appointed body of faceless nobodies in Europe which we will be escaping from.

A"Plague on all their Houses" is what I say!!

These people have a knack of producing KPI's to support their increases and often paint the game in such a light as to make out its gone from strength to strength.

My own opinion is attendances do look down from the outside, depending on how far you look back, I think some of the sides 10 years ago would beat the current sides, and the game at the top is a little stale, barring a few exceptions the game is pretty much hand to mouth from bottom all the way up to all but a few elite SL Clubs, and a few clubs with stir crazy owners.

However, Nige would point to increased sponsorship, expansion of the game to other countries etc etc yawnnnnnnn.... So in their world he's worth every penny and is doing a great job.

The game sold its soul quite a few years back, its been a steady move towards a tv game and a wider subscription paying audience. My own preference would have been to do more at grass roots and buck the greedy trends of sport and business, and actually do something for the good of all RL folks, something to stand out and be proud of, but I appear to be an old fashioned out of touch fool who doesn't have an MBA, and doesn't know any soap characters or any acts in the top 10 music charts. For some reason im ok with that and will keep my soul in tact and remember the game is predominately played on muddy fields with club houses that have a few broken showers and a bar of their own if they are lucky.

Give yourself a big pat on the back Nige, the graphs look fantastic the presentations are all using Bluetooth and they've got them being professionally produced by the same people who made the Kings new magic clothes, oh and were on target to get a blue chip sponsor any decade now.

RL is in reality no different to a large number other business, its a great gravy train if you blag a decent seat, sod the peasants.

Whilst I totally agree with the arguments and statements above, I would like to ask the big man a couple of questions;
What in which ever Diety you believe in did we do wrong to you, when you were at the Fax we were not an unfashionable club, we were doing ok on the field, it was YOU by all accounts who gave us that laughing stock of a name bluesox, then you left for the money mountain, why Nige why what did Fax do wrong

"Diety?" Was that a Freudian slip?

The question i would ask would be:

What would the salary be advertised if the incumbent left - what is the salary level for sports administrators in the UK?

There is a petition now, on Facebook, asking for a vote of no confidence in Wood. Signed!

The CEO of Sport England is paid £150,000 per their website - I decided to sign the petition