Seems big Nige has now confirmed he's moving on https://www.facebook.com/RLBanter/photo ... =3&theater

Seems big Nige has now confirmed he's moving on https://www.facebook.com/RLBanter/photo ... =3&theater

Good riddance!

PARTY!!!

he'll still be around in one form or other, probably in the international setup

another numpty needed at red hall,where is chorley jean??????

Quote ="wire-quin"Seems big Nige has now confirmed he's moving on https://www.facebook.com/RLBanter/photo ... =3&theater'" Not from the RFL he hasn't. Only the Super League board

Quote ="wire-quin"Seems big Nige has now confirmed he's moving on https://www.facebook.com/RLBanter/photo ... =3&theater'" Not from the RFL he hasn't. Only the Super League board

Thats a start

Gary Hetherington the obvious choice to replace him, but doubt he would want the job. the best administrater in Rl, and most people think he runs the Rl anyway.

would in all seriousness like us to get someone over from NFL to be involved in revamping the games.

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.

Let’s not forget how strong is CV in the administration of a club was before he went to the RFL. Halifax fans were openly weeping with grief when he left our club in such a sound, positive position.

You know he openly denies his involvement in his failures at Halifax. Even denying all knowledge of that ridiculous Bluesox name he forced on the club. A failed, weak administrator with no morales - the game will go nowhere as long as he is in it for himself

How on earth he's kept his job at the RFL for so long is a mystery to me and probably others.

'Gone' in the sense that he is infact still Chief Executive of the organisation he has 'left' and still Chief Executive of the RFL. I'll hang off digging out the party poppers...

The last stat on your list regarding player participation is quite staggering and it has to be said that Wood has offered NOTHING to our sport and we are going backwards at a rate of knots.

Unfortunately we dont appear to be rid of him completely but hopefully we can find another Richard Lewis, a top bloke, with vision and knowledge, of how to move the sport forward.

I assume those participation is junior rugby through to the pro game ?
Do you have information as to where the drop is, I presume we are looking at juniors numbers taking the biggest hit ?

That figure is misleading. 2007 was the year the new Wembley was opened and the year that the fabulous =#BF0000Catalans Dragons made their first appearance at Wembley for the final. (It was also the first year that an Arab scored a try at Wembley). No wonder the attendance that year was so high.

I’d like us to bring someone in from outside the sport otherwise I can see nothing changing, a little too early for Kevin Sinfield, although I can see him taking over at some point in the future.

Bring in someone with a proper business sense to grow the organisation.

Howver I don't recall Richard Lewis (tennis) or Brian Barwick (football) really improving things that much during their time at the RFL.

Aren't the SL clubs taking control? All the clubs are directors of SLE. The way I see it is that the clubs believe they can secure more corporate income and better broadcasting terms for Super League as an entity than Wood etc can.

Under Lewis, the game really progressed, with a forward vision, professional set-up and decent sponsors.

Barwick has been a waste of a seat.

Nigel Wood has been too erratic. He's clearly tried his best, but ultimately he's been hamstrung by an unwillingness to challenge a small group of top championship/bottom super league clubs whose interests are contrary to the interests of the game as a whole. As a result, far too much of his focus has been on what's come to be known as the Middle 8s, and not enough on the whole sport and its shop window in SL.

Why do people insist on giving out high-profile off-field roles solely on the basis that they were good players? Sinfield has zero credentials to do this job.

chief executive of a sports club. I felt that I needed to give myself the academic background behind it, so that if those jobs or opportunities arise later on, I’d be in a decent position to apply for them."

Whilst this on its own isn't enough to say he should get a top job in the RFL he certainly isn't someone tipped or suggested to get a job just because of his on field performances alone.

That's great, so do thousands of other people. What has he done to even be remotely mentioned in passing other than being good at playing rugby?

And I mentioned that it wasn't enough on its own.



That was pointed out to you previously and I'm guessing your were unaware of it before being critical of the suggestion. Neither the Masters degree or his rugby career individually should be taking too much, but both together (and it's not just a good career it's being a cornerstone of the best most successful run club of the SL era) should at least get his name thrown out there.

Why should it? His brief tenure as England team manager not withstanding, why should he be considered any more than one of the other thousands of sports business Masters graduates, who wouldn't be considered at all because they have no experience of running a major governing body?

"Because he was good at playing rugby" is going to be your answer which is bordering on insanity IMO, what the hell does that have to do with anything?

It's not "because he was good at playing rugby".....you honestly think that being involved in the sport at the highest level for 20 years at the best run club at that time doesn't give him some insight/experience/ideas that other non RL experienced can't offer?

Like I said it shouldn't be enough to get him a top job.....but at the same time it shouldn't be dismissed like you're trying to do. His name should at least be in the mix and not dismissed by someone simply because he played for a rival club.

Lol who do you think my 'rival club' is? I like Sinfield and admire him as a player. But he shouldn't even be considered at all for a job like this. Ryan Bailey was around Leeds for most of that time, do you think he should also be considered? No, you're basing it on the idea that Sinfield is a good leader because he was a leader on the pitch. It's a totally bizarre, backwards mentality within the sport, the same mentality that saw Peacock appointed to a totally unsuitable role at Hull KR and get the club relegated, or Cunningham given the St Helens coaching job when it was clear that he was a million miles away from being a capable Super League coach. It happens in other sports too, like when Maradona was coach of the Argentina football team. Very strange mentality that people have.

There's no evidence that Sinfield has any ability at all as an administrator and he doesn't have anything even remotely approaching the level of experience to be considered for this. There's nothing to separate him from the thousands of other sports business Masters graduates, of which probabilities would suggest that he would almost certainly not be the most capable. You're advocating him because you are a fanboy of him as a player and can't separate what he did on the field from the person off it. Get a grip, he has no business even being discussed for this role. If anything, based on your arguments you should be advocating Gary Hetherington who was the one actually running Leeds, not someone who happened to be a good player for the club at the time.