alas, it seems to be the culture in RL to reward failure. I have seen nothing to point towards the guy recruited from Man City (who claimed he single handedly propelled them towhere they are now) that makesme think this was a good appointment, but as this is the RFL, we'll wait until Gillette bail the out with RLWC 2013 sponsorship, we get less than Saracens for SL and the CC is given away before realising that he was all and wind, but had "man city"on his CV.

It's not just the RFL either.London Broncos are being run (into the ground) by another who talks the talk but is in reality is out of his depth. Salford had a massive opportunitylast year to attract new fans, but as is the way with RL, they stuck posts in the ground and expected people to just turn up.....it doesn't work that way.

There are pro-active clubs out there and I for one (I am no fan of Wigan or their egotistical fanbase) would appoint Ian Lenagan to the position of CEO of the RFL. He took over with Wigan averaging 14k and has added another 21% to that in 5 years...his aim is to fill the DW stadium for every game....that's the sort of ambition needed to lead the sport IMHO!

A few journos on twitter, including Pete Smith and Martyn Sadler, are suggesting that a sponsor will be announced on Tuesday (for the CC), and that further announcements are expected within a couple of weeks.

the RFL has tweeted that there will be a series of exciting announcements over the next 2 weeks.

not sure a sponsorship announcement could ever be described as exciting, but at least they have something lined up.

Let's hope its a mass resignation. The rest is detail, sport won't move on in any significant way without fresh leadership.

Any managerial position should be about hitting targets and it doesn't seem that our sport has publicised targets of where the bame should be in 12 months, 5 years, 10 years.
Without a structured plan, the game can only drift along.
Good oportunities may come along and some may still be taken but, this is different to someone or a collection of people moving the sport forward.

Agree with wrencat. I suppose we don't know for CERTAIN that they don't have some structured, measurable targets but reading the bilge (and it really is as awful as I've seen anywhere) that they put on the site concerning strategy, one has to suspect that such rubbish is a fair indicator of their grasp of leadership. If it's not, then it begs the question "why print such waffle?" I often find that where there's a resistance to setting clear measurable goals, its because there's a fear of being held to them. But, setting measurable targets and delivering (most of) them is called leadership. It's hard but its what you get paid for. At the VERY LEAST there's no excuse for publishing such rubbish, but unfortunately its probably much worse than that - they probably don't even realise its a load of rubbish. That's much scarier.

Adam Pearson alluded to a move within SL for the clubs to run the game themselves, he didn't go into great detail (I am getting this 3rd hand, so forgive me) but it seems Wigan are leading the way to try and reform the RFL somehow.

Quite how it would work I know not, but I know Red Hall have done nothing good for the game in years, any developments or improvements (and not all the changes have been improvements imho) have been driven by SKY.

The fact Stobart trucks still have RL players on the side indicates how lax the RFL are.

Just had a thought, if everyone who posts on RLFANS gives £20, we could have the RLFANS Super League 2013, and we could force them to replace Eddie and Stevo!

Quite right, the RFL should stop this lunacy at once. This free publicity during a period when we don't have another sponsor is ridiculous, and is needlessly promoting our game at a time when we should be mourning how bad our game it at promoting itself.

Nope, Stobart passing themselves off as being involved when they no longer are is wrong, and it is a bad image when discussing sponsorship with other potential sponsors, what guarantess can the RFL offer that Stobart will immediately unbrand the vehicles for the start of the season in 13 days?

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So RLFANS Super League it is!!