Re: Kevin Sinfield Joins the RFL : Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:18 pm  

Cas Till I Die wrote:

So your saying nobody has the business pedigree that Sinfield has ???

And highest profile RL stars of his generation ??? Really ??? The fact he bottled the NRL all of his career to win a few tin pot SL titles means that he is not even half the star that Sam Burgess is for example and not half as known.

As I say it's a 'jobs for the boys' culture at the RFL as per.

Go on spill it. Was it when he nutted Luke Dorn?

Re: Kevin Sinfield Joins the RFL : Sat Aug 27, 2016 8:59 am  

FlexWheeler wrote:

What are you talking about?

You keep bringing in this word business. This isn't the apprentice. Business pedigree and business development don't have appear to have a huge amount of relevance for sinfield's role. He's going to be helping players find career's after retirement and helping England plan for the the 2021 world cup.

He was runner up in the SPOTY so he is fairly high profile. I don't remember any concrete offers to go the NRL but if there were, alot of factors would have come into play such as relocating his family half way round the world and can't be simplified as simply bottling it. Considering Sinfield took up the challenge of going to a different sport so late in his career I don't think ''bottling it'' is really in his nature.

Considering the RFL have never really appointed Rugby League people before you can't really say ''jobs for the boys as per''. If anything it's a lack of jobs for the boys culture that has weakened them. Not enough real rugby league nous.

P.S. When Cas finally win a 'tin pot' trophy let me know. But I'll probably be dead by then. It'll be a match made in heaven. A tin pot trophy for a p*ss ant town.

Haha cas till I die shot down

Re: Kevin Sinfield Joins the RFL : Sat Aug 27, 2016 7:50 pm  

Hmmm, personally I'm not sure this is necessarily a good appointment, can he meet what is being asked of him and successfully so , of course, that does massively depend on what that is, being able to quantify his contribution will be more telling in the future but nothing ventured I guess with a familiar name.
That said, sports business degree or no, he's a newbie with no experience in real world business/strategic planning/contract development and so on. He might know rugby league from a players POV inside out, he might know most of the players but does not by any means automatically qualify him to do X role to progress the game.
Massive learning curve, only time will tell as whether this is a good appointment or not.
good luck to him

Re: Kevin Sinfield Joins the RFL : Sun Aug 28, 2016 2:11 am  

Cas Till I Die wrote:

So your saying nobody has the business pedigree that Sinfield has ???

And highest profile RL stars of his generation ??? Really ??? The fact he bottled the NRL all of his career to win a few tin pot SL titles means that he is not even half the star that Sam Burgess is for example and not half as known.

As I say it's a 'jobs for the boys' culture at the RFL as per.

What the hell is wrong with this guy.

Re: Kevin Sinfield Joins the RFL : Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:06 pm  

loiner81 wrote:

What the hell is wrong with this guy.

Excellent, hahaha, great film too!!

[Jimmythecuckoo]

Re: Kevin Sinfield Joins the RFL : Tue Aug 30, 2016 8:14 am  

I still wonder if his brief sojourn into Union was an undercover fact finding mission.

Or it was to get some money as he knew this job would be under paid