Quote ="Wildcat26"Here`s a summary of all Wood`s "Achievements" in his 11 years in his role..
- Reduction of 38% in Sport England grant funding
- A decline in the standard of match officials
- A general decline in the standard of Super league
- The decline of reserve teams within SL / champ clubs.
- The national side has failed to beat Australia under Nigel Wood.
- Bradford bulls entering administration on numerous times after a number of owners was accepted by the RFL.
- A Decline in media coverage.
- The Loss of top English players to NRL and RFU due to salary cap restrictions.
- 2012 ridiculous Stobart sponsorship deal
- 2013 SL starts with no Sponsor
- Significant cuts in junior development funding
- 4 officials resign due to official complaints been "Brushed under the carpet"
- Accepting the first offer put on the table by sky 200m for 5 seasons.
Here is an interesting one -
Charging fans to stream Englands ONLY warm up match before the world cup and turning down the exposure to 1 million plus viewers on BBC who had only reportedly offered 10k as they was only given 6 weeks notice !!! The RFL then refused to release any figures on how many paid for the stream.
Average SL attendance
2007 - 9,855
2016 - 9,134
Challenge cup final attendance
2007 - 84,241
2016 - 76,235
Salary cap (Super League)
2007 - £1.6m
2016 - £1.85m
Player Participation
2007 - 131,900
2017 - 44,900
In fact he did such a great job, somewhere in between Aug 2013 and Jan 2017 he got a 110k P/A wage increase from 204k to 314k.'"
Says it all.
Who will replace him and where are we going long term and short term?
Can we have more open information provided to us fans by the organisation for their plans?
