Looks like Sam Burgess is abandoning the superior warm Sydney lifestyle for a pot of gold in the cold.

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It shows how insignificant the small profit-making 2013 RLWC was after all. A £5 million profit is a joke compared to the profits the RUWC will make. RU will have three of our superstars (Sam Burgess for England, SBW for NZ and Israel Folau for Australia) to bring the fans in through the gates. We will be poorer without them.

The RFL bosses, esp. Nigel Wood in collusion with the empty suit Brian Barwick and the Hetheringtons, continue to drag our code down to the economic gutter by selling Super League TV rights years in advance for less than their potential market value, and by allowing professional RL in London to rot, and by denying Toulouse a place in the Super League top 12. We have a joke of an international presence because there are only three countries competitive. The next potential competitors, France and PNG, have been given no subsidy to grow and become competitive by the RLIF which Nigel Wood runs.

Nigel Wood is a small minded accountant who should never have been allowed out of Halifax. The fact that he is allowed to run the RFL and tears up all the good reforms of Richard Lewis, like licencing and building the game in France, shows what a dunce Wood is and how incompetent the rest of the RFL are. Wood understands nothing about running a major sporting business. Lenagan, Moran or Koukash should be running the game.

Looks like Sam Burgess is abandoning the superior warm Sydney lifestyle for a pot of gold in the cold.

www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/s ... 6819577647


It shows how insignificant the small profit-making 2013 RLWC was after all. A £5 million profit is a joke compared to the profits the RUWC will make. RU will have three of our superstars (Sam Burgess for England, SBW for NZ and Israel Folau for Australia) to bring the fans in through the gates. We will be poorer without them.

The RFL bosses, esp. Nigel Wood in collusion with the empty suit Brian Barwick and the Hetheringtons, continue to drag our code down to the economic gutter by selling Super League TV rights years in advance for less than their potential market value, and by allowing professional RL in London to rot, and by denying Toulouse a place in the Super League top 12. We have a joke of an international presence because there are only three countries competitive. The next potential competitors, France and PNG, have been given no subsidy to grow and become competitive by the RLIF which Nigel Wood runs.

Nigel Wood is a small minded accountant who should never have been allowed out of Halifax. The fact that he is allowed to run the RFL and tears up all the good reforms of Richard Lewis, like licencing and building the game in France, shows what a dunce Wood is and how incompetent the rest of the RFL are. Wood understands nothing about running a major sporting business. Lenagan, Moran or Koukash should be running the game.