Quote ="PopTart"There is no question about it.
Whether you like RU or not it is seen as a direct competitor to us for audience, sponsorship and players.
They beat us on all three.
Having the better game doesn't help if the management and marketing teams are non existant.'"
It also helps the sport of rugby union not having a sport's governing body that is (allegedly) corrupt.
Our sport has a purportedly tarnished former Chief Exceutive (Nigel Wood) who left the RFl last year to take up a massively overpaid role as CEO of the global governing body for the sport of rugby league football, now known as International Rugby League (IRL).
The sport of rugby league in the UK needs a long overdue root and branch reform and proper direct investment into the grassroots game, The amateur RL game represents the life and blood of our sport and in certain age brackets is the source of our future talent. Despite being in receipt of annual multi-million pound grants from the likes of Sport England and Sky Try the amateur game has been gradually decimated over the past 10-15 years by the RFL. Amateur clubs are struggling financially, or going bust, whilst the RFL fat cats pay themselves hign salaries for doing naff all - Mr Barwick being a recent classic example.
Best of luck to Wakey next season.
