What a straight from the hip bloke!!!! Can't see Wood or anyone else mugging him.
He can see what most UK supporters can see and probably laughed his head off at Wood's antics with Bradford.
If we don't talk sense to him he will make RL a worldwide sport on his own, via USA possibly. But I suspect that if any cash comes our way it will be well supervised , Anyone trying to take him for a fool would get eaten!!
Like many others, I am fed up of saying this, but there is simply too much vested interest in this country with club owners having far too much power and far too much to say.
They are determining policy on the hoof, most of which is short term and bad for the sport.
Club owners are there to facilitate what happens at their club, not what happens to the game as a whole.
There has to be an independent board of Administrators who determine the rules of the competition, and it is then up to owners to either buy into it or get out.
That's why the game will never ever get anywhere unless there is fundamental change. And if that has to come from Australia then so be it. We all want a sport that we can be proud of.
And while we are at it. Some of the game's most vocal media commentators would do well to keep quiet and stop forcing their (biased one sided) opinions on the rest of us.
The game over here isn't great and neither are many of the players they continually go on about.
If our competition is so good, then clubs would not be filling their teams with (overrated and expensive) overseas players and coaches, and we would be making a real fist of beating the Aussies in an Ashes Test series.
Still, maybe next time eh?!!!!
But as you well know you couldn't sell coal to Newcastle. Nobody bar the RL diehards who are rapidly dwindling are not interested in the game which makes income even harder to get. Lets not forget RL is and always will be huge down under and nothing is going to change that over here even Barry Hearn would struggle to sell the game over here. We certainly can manage the game 100% better than the muppets in charge actually do, even the coverage we get is sold at a pittance but with the forming of SL and all the sky coverage people at not interested in the game. We need to go back to basics with ARLA been funded by the RFL and get more amateur teams playing the game to renew interest in the game and have a deeper players pool.What a straight from the hip bloke!!!! Can't see Wood or anyone else mugging him.
He can see what most UK supporters can see and probably laughed his head off at Wood's antics with Bradford.
If we don't talk sense to him he will make RL a worldwide sport on his own, via USA possibly. But I suspect that if any cash comes our way it will be well supervised , Anyone trying to take him for a fool would get eaten!!
If the likes of V'landis was involved we would be a closed SL with no relegation full of even more second rate Aussies and been the equivalent of their lower leagues competition.
Read the interview with Fat Nige? He's delusional. And crooked.
Shaun Wane: England head coach future to be decided 'in fullness of time' - BBC Sport
@gpo1971 Totally agree. The Ashes series has been a success commercially - no thanks to Wood - but highlighted the way the standards on the field have declined.
V'landis sees the development of the international game as the key to the growth of the game and has little confidence in those running the British game, describing it as a "train crash". He suggests that the competition should be run by an independent body, free of club interests, which many fans would agree with.
Wood claims that the game is in a good place and that " he has never been more optimistic about what SL looks like". With Clubs losing £1-2m a year and reliant on wealthy owners bailing them out and other Clubs facing bankruptcy; the expansion of SL to 14 Clubs without any real consideration of the financial implications; and rumours that IMG, who were brought in on a 12 year contract with the promise of a bold new era for the game, ready to walk away due to the the boardroom unrest and failure at basic administrative levels. The man is delusional on a Trump level.
He is going cap in hand to private equity firms and now hoping the NRL will bail them out. Will any new investment be used to grow the game from grass routes level to develop our own marquee players of the future, or will it be used to meet the losses of those wealthy club owners.
As for the international game, the decision on Wane's future will be decided in the "fullness of time". Real dynamic thinking!!!! The RFL should grasp the nettle now - confirm Wane's appointment for the World Cup; bring in an experienced Australian coach to work with Wane, with Wane's approval; draw up plans to allow Wane to keep the squad together over the next year, and scheduling a few international games during the 2026 season. If the international game is the key to promoting the game and developing our own players, then international games need to be scheduled in the SL season
There should be no real problem picking players in season, clubs have reserves!!
Any club refusing to release players can be fined via their SL allocation. If we are to come close to even the Pacific nations we have to really work at developing our own marquee players!!!