Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:06 am  

Now we've all calmed down after the Bulls fiasco, do we think it's time for an RFL statement on their involvement in the Bulls situation, how the situation was missed by the extensive licence application review and how this was allowed to happen again after that shining light of super league, crusaders, also went pop?

Or is it time for an enquiry into the whole sorry licencing situation from day one of its inception?

I think both to be fair, Lewis and wood need to explain!

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:33 am  

I think that they will be distancing themselves from this as much as possible and let Bradford deal with their own poop.

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:41 am  

freddies wig wrote:

Now we've all calmed down after the Bulls fiasco, do we think it's time for an RFL statement on their involvement in the Bulls situation, how the situation was missed by the extensive licence application review and how this was allowed to happen again after that shining light of super league, crusaders, also went pop?

Or is it time for an enquiry into the whole sorry licencing situation from day one of its inception?

I think both to be fair, Lewis and wood need to explain!

there should be an enquiry over it all but RFL will just carry on as if nothing wrong happened.

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:51 am  

How does the RFL work? Can Fat Controller be sacked? Who can sack him?
I'm at a loss to see how this is all run (apart from badly that is).
Who is he responsible to?

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:55 am  

Norman Bates wrote:

How does the RFL work? Can Fat Controller be sacked? Who can sack him?
I'm at a loss to see how this is all run (apart from badly that is).
Who is he responsible to?

I read on twitter the other day, may have been Richard De la rivere who tweeted it, that a vote of no confidence was mooted by the superleague clubs a few years back but nothing ever came of it.

Worrying thing is the RFL were nominated for Governing Body of the Year in some recent sports awards

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:09 am  

I was going to say, surely club chairmen have some responsibility here? Its obvious the RFL is either rotten to the core or just totally incompetent to become implicitly involved in the embarrassments of late!

I really do feel it's incompetence more than anything and, if so, the clubs' chairmen can surely raise issue.

The RFL can't bully all the clubs if they are all against them.

Or maybe the chairmen fear an even worse replacement, cough, cough, hetherington?

Would love to know Mike's thoughts!!!!!

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:17 am  

It was said for a long time that Chris Hamilton was the man expected to eventually take over the reins from Fat Nige, wether thats still the case i don't know, his record at Oldham is shall we say, bumpy?

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:35 am  

I e-mailed Westminsters All Party Rugby League Committee yesterday asking these same questions I recieved an answer this morning to say they had been inundated with people contacting them. All of the e-mails were being forwarded to the next meeting.

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:43 am  

As soon as there's any good news about Rugby League we'll hear from the Teflon Twins. Until that time - they're "busy".

Re: Time for RFL enquiry/statement? : Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:47 am  

James Roberts sums it up perfectly in the courier.

In any other sport, media scrutiny would mean the upper echelons of Red Hall officialdom would be considering their own positions right now.

But in an era where the game’s national profile is lower than a very low thing, the TV rights holder has no interest in scratching the veneer of its product and cutbacks in the national and regional Press mean journalistic critique has hit rock bottom, that just won’t happen.


Who would dare question the RFL, certainly not Sky, not a champ club with aims of SL, not a SL club who may need bailing out in the near future...