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

Quote wire-quin="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="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.