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M j M

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  1. 45 minutes ago, Damien said:

    This is revisionist and is very much the lets credit Wood with all the good stuff but none of the bad thinking. Lewis left 2 months after the Stobart deal and Wood was very much in charge when it was made. Wood was the face of it, literally when it was announced, which would be extremely odd if he was so against it:

    Oh come on, everyone in the sport knows it was Lewis who went club by club to get them to vote against the proposed sponsorship from Betfair in favour of the Stobart deal. Wood obviously isn't going to trash the deal when it was being announced but it was Lewis who was vociferous against gambling sponsorship, something Wood rightly or wrongly dropped once he took full control. Lewis's role in the Stobart deal really hasn't been disputed by anyone. 

  2. 3 hours ago, gingerjon said:

    Wood is the man who was chief executive when Halifax went bust in the early 2000s. The man who led the RFL for a decade, who oversaw Crusaders going under, the Bradford and Odsal saga, the failed expansion of League 1 that ended with Hemel, Gloucester, Oxford and other clubs disappearing, and the disastrous Toronto Wolfpack experiment.

    The individual who led the RFL to £2m in losses and who got a £300,000 severance package when he was forced out of the sport by the clubs in 2018. The man who oversaw cuts in development in England, Scotland and Wales, who oversaw declining participation and disappearing media profile, who brought in the controversial Stobart deal and the appointment of the ineffective Brian Barwick.

    But say what you really mean

    He's an ###### with a transparent agenda. Several of the things in there are misleading, a couple are  downright untrue.

    People simply have to realise that Davidson has little more credibility than Gledhill. We urgently need to rely on the handful of decent RL journalists.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Angelic Cynic said:

    Seems the players agent on the Podcast of journalist Mr Shaw who mediated between the governing body/Sports Resolutions/Mark Aston is also firmly on the side of Mark Aston.

    I hope the governing body is consequently involving itself with the welfare of Mark Aston.

    Could be the other side of the evidence will be forthcoming.

    Interesting times...

    Citing a players agent as someone both trustworthy and neutral really made me laugh.

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  4. From what I've been told (sorry anonymous source) some of the dissatisfaction with Johnson's board was that they would continually suggest everything was going well, congratulating themselves on hitting spurious metrics. And it wasn't just BS, they actually believed it. All the time the game was, in reality, floundering. There was a fundamental disconnect from reality and no understanding or will to understand or address the actual issues. The NEDs are there to hold the exec to account but there was little of that actually happening. It was like they were living in a parallel universe, all the time the game was burning and they thought it was a roaring success. 

    How the clubs went about changing that is open to debate. I'm very sympathetic to Wood's track record but it probably was unwise to go back to him. However not liking that aspect shouldn't immediately mean you are on the side of the old board. They were, as a collective, a failure. I'm sure there were good people involved with integrity, and you want outside expertise, but as a group they seemed just too disconnected from the reality of the sport. 

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  5. 24 minutes ago, Griff said:

    She's not a doctor.  She was a doctor equivalent, a status seemingly quietly dropped by the RFL.  There'll be a few out of work doctor equivalents who'll be disputing your call for high praise.

    The way people defending Aston have tried to belittle and shift responsibility onto this lady is the most repulsive aspect of this whole case.

    Despite him losing his case you, his other defenders and Aston's  ignorant/incompetent friends in the media are still at it.

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  6. 11 minutes ago, The Future is League said:

    I was looking at the loss, which is always the bottom line in these matters.

    Perhaps Peter V'landys could send one of his accounant mates over from Australia to show the RFL how they have turned the Debt in the NRL to the healthy state the NRL accounts are in today.

     

    13 minutes ago, The Future is League said:

    I was looking at the loss, which is always the bottom line in these matters.

     

    For a business which has years of wildly varying income and which has quite peculiar responsibilities the profit or loss of one year in isolation is not indicative of anything. 

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  7. 52 minutes ago, Exiled Wiganer said:

    Which might be because 2 of the clubs are looking to or have downsized their grounds.
     

    They look better, and likely give a more enjoyable experience for the people who are there but… smaller grounds reflect a club’s relative failure rather than being brilliant news. 

    We need to live in the world as it is rather than a fantasy one. Even at their very peak years for crowds Huddersfield haven't been too close to getting a 10k average. 

    It's suggested they are going for an 8k capacity stadium which I do think is too small and should be more like 10k. But it's obvious that this would be an improvement for them in a whole host of ways.

    What I really don't approve of is the idea of moving out of Huddersfield whilst it is built, that's much more dangerous for the club than people seem to realise.

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