I am guessing this is a response to his salary revelations? https://www.change.org/p/rfl-nigel-wood ... confidence

I am guessing this is a response to his salary revelations? https://www.change.org/p/rfl-nigel-wood ... confidence

Is the problem the money or the man?? A lot of people seem to be moaning more about his wage than his "acheivements". I agree he should go, but this is the top job in RL in the Northern Hemisphere, if the person did a great job they could justify a salary of 10 million!

Im not sure who would come in and replace him though, ideally it would be a rugby man and a business man working side by side.

It requires a sports businessman - someone who knows how to run a business, but also understands the sporting landscape.

He might be massively dis-liked, but I'd imagine Barrie Hearn could make a huge impact on our sport!

Barry Hearn is very much about razzamatazz and changing formats. Havent we had enough of that over the years?

RL needs to stick/return to its roots which are firmly set in the north. Yes, try expand the game but naturally rather than forced. If it doesnt happen, then sobeit. The forced expansion has been tried and failed.

A stronger and more stable game makes it easier to market which in turn should bring greater money into it and lead to growth. Create proper competition where teams can be promoted into SL and relegated out of it. Sport is about success and failure; it shouldnt be about franchising but about what happens on the field of play.

it absolutely should NOT have to be a 'rugby' man, in fact it doesn't even need someone from a sporting background IMHO.
I reckon you could bin off the whole of the hierachy/pigs at the trough and replace them with fewer than half to do the same job more efficiently but with more staffers.
offer the job up at 500k+ strict performance related bonuses over a 6-7 year period. Give them full rein to make swathing changes/get rid of the chaff, very likely someone from private industry with a track record of success, integrity and contacts/influence. something that the RFL board lacks in abundance.
Forcing the change is the problem, none of the pigs will give up what they have, not until they kick the bucket/too senile to find the trough. The clubs breaking away from the RFL in totality would not be an easy thing to do, there's also a risk element to it, maybe something similar to the soccer premiership.

A lot of hot air & rubbish is being spouted on here. Us anoraks my be obsessive about our sport & care about it but the game is owned by the owners of the clubs we are just customers we either turn up & pay or we don't, the only way the game will grow is if more people turn up & at the moment we are not doing it. Nigel wood is only the mouth piece for the owners & what he earns is their business. All this talk of stake holders is a myth the game is owned & run by a couple of dozen men our opinions are only important to us. I wish it were not true but that's the way it is.