So Sir Kev is about to join the RFL as Rugby Director. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... y-director Splitting his time between Performance and Business Development. It is good to see that someone with so much first hand experience of the game is appointed to this position. Will he however, make a go of it and then jump for big money to the dark side? Remember Joe Lydon? Hopefully not. Make it work Kev.

So Sir Kev is about to join the RFL as Rugby Director. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... y-director Splitting his time between Performance and Business Development. It is good to see that someone with so much first hand experience of the game is appointed to this position. Will he however, make a go of it and then jump for big money to the dark side? Remember Joe Lydon? Hopefully not. Make it work Kev.

Well, at least now there is one person at that backwards thinking farce that actually gives a damn about the game.

Actually knows something about the game as well. First thing he will be asked to do when he arrives there is explain what rugby league is.

Its a made up job for him so he will say nowt.

sounds like a 'jobs for the boys' appointment to me, let's be honest what Kevin Sinfield knows about business development you could write on a postage stamp.

Masters degree in sports business and been one of the highest profile RL stars of his generation.... Not a bad starting point

what is wrong with some people, we get a modern day great actually involved in some capacity in the RFL and all people can do is moan.......give the guy a chance to get his feet under the table and he may bring the dinosaur into the 21st century........

and that's from a Wigan supporter

Well said Pie Warrior.
Obviously only he knows why he went over to the dark side but, this is exactly the knid of role that someone of his ilk should be doing.

A big step in the right direction.

Exactly. As long as he keeps his nose out of any disciplinary business involving Leeds I'm happy

Lovely stuff.

So your saying nobody has the business pedigree that Sinfield has ???

And highest profile RL stars of his generation ??? Really ??? The fact he bottled the NRL all of his career to win a few tin pot SL titles means that he is not even half the star that Sam Burgess is for example and not half as known.

As I say it's a 'jobs for the boys' culture at the RFL as per.

It's not just the masters degree it's the fact that Sinfield knows the sport inside out. I don't think any senior RFL members have played alongside Sinfield (if they've played the sport at all) so I fail to see a job for the boys approach here.

What are you talking about?

1. His job isn't business development
2. He doesn't have any personal relationship with anyone at the RFL so it's hardly jobs for the boys.
3. Do you not think it's positive that one of the most level headed and decorated players to play the game will be at the RFL considering the often lamented apparent disconnect between nameless suits at the RFL and people who have a real understanding of the game?

Or did you just want to have a go?