Is RFL making plans for Nigel?
FOR a few weeks now on the Brighouse Rangers Amateur Rugby League Club website director of rugby Nigel Briggs has had to take some flak off his secretary and PRO Matthew Barraclough over a chance meeting he had with Rugby Football League CEO Nigel Wood.
Wood played for Halifax RLFC A team and in the Bradford League with a couple of clubs before becoming general manager at the old Thrum Hall and dreamt up the old Blue Sox appendage before taking up a position at the game's HQ. It is from those days that he knows our Nigel.
Wood had turned up at Brighouse Sports Club from his Birkinshaw home to be interviewed by Sky Sports and BBC Look North on the vacant post of England RL team manager.
After the interviews he entered into a jovial – and at at times serious – conversation with Briggs, and when he had left those present were asking the Brighouse man if he had put in his application to take over from Tony Smith.
Matthew soon had it up on the website that our Nigel was one of the applicants and could even make the shortlist being such a good pal with the Chief Executive!
Nigel Wood is currently in Australia and could well be talking with Wayne Bennett, the former Brisbane Broncos and Australia coach who has played in this country in the 70s with Huddersfield.
FORMER Holiday Inn, Clifton, manager Shaun Callighan is to leave Headingley after 11 years as head of the Headingley Experience and also as a board member of Leeds Rugby Ltd since 2002.
Shaun, cousin of local celebrity Jiving Jeff Greenwood and son of former Bradford Northern and Dewsbury player Trevor Callighan, hasn't said where he is going but after all the commitment he has given to Leeds Rhinos, Leeds Carnegie (Tykes previously), Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, he must need a rest.
The catering and professionalism under his guidance is first class at this great Yorkshire sporting venue.
His dad, who is also a good friend of mine, was later a boxing manager and chairman of the Central Area Professional Boxing Council, plus for many years mine host at the Stump Cross Inn.
RIGHT now football is in a right old shambles with Championship clubs Crystal Palace, Watford and Plymouth Argyle struggling to survive, Premiership Portsmouth are in a bad way, Hull City are saddled with crippling debts and Wolverhampton are ripping off the paying public by putting out a reserve team at Manchester United on Tuesday.
The minimum price for a ticket at United is 51 and to pay to watch a reserve team, I ask you.
If you had taken your son or daughter, bought a programme, and with travelling expenses, what change would there have been out of 100 so near Christmas.
Stockport County are on the financial ropes and nearby Chester City in the Blue Square Premier haven't been paying their players on time. The last I heard on Wednesday was that they would be going on strike and that could signal the end of them if they don't turn up at Rushden and Diamonds on Saturday.
Plus we have the Football League admitting they still didn't know the "fit and proper persons" who owned Notts County before the weekend management buyout and then their latest manager lasted seven weeks before jumping ship on Monday.
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