It was the evening before rugby league officially returned to the United States in style, the second year of the NRL’s bold blueprint to increase its global footprint. The alcohol was flowing freely and smiles were shared ahead of the ambitious event at the Allegiant Stadium.
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Johnson was spotted in Vegas in deep talks with Gary Hetherington, chief executive of Leeds Rhinos, one of the key plotters seeking to enforce change at the RFL.
It has all proved ultimately in vain with Johnson announcing his intention to resign yesterday, a day before the RFL Council was due to meet in Wakefield and where it is expected he would have been voted out. The Council meeting was cancelled after Johnson quit and Wood’s appointment was confirmed.
The RFL has been engulfed by crisis after crisis in the past few months.
It is a sorry state of affairs that has only been compounded in the past few days by the emergence of a new payment crisis at Featherstone Rovers and the publication of a scathing open letter from a group, purporting to be from the “Women of the RFL and RL Commercial”, slamming the attempt to overthrow the leadership of the governing body.
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“If these rumours are accurate, we fear their return could severely undermine the significant progress made in advancing the women’s game, our careers, and the inclusive workplace culture we have tirelessly built.”
This has all come under the backdrop of the widespread glow of the Vegas event and a potential NRL takeover, with the positivity generated by the American adventure quickly dissipating by constant in-fighting and missteps.
International Rugby League chairman Troy Grant on Tuesday described the international game as “suffering a telling period of selfish amateur administration, lack of vision and strategy and poor governance” when Wood was in charge. Wood has been contacted for comment.
While the bodies pile up in the boardroom the players, fans and commercial partners watch from the sidelines. UK rugby league tore itself apart seven years ago and after the Covid-19 pandemic realigned again in 2022.
Less than three years on no lessons have been learned from that painful episode.
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