I'm not sure they had many alternatives for an emergency, temporary appointment and he seems to have the backing of the clubs. The statement from McManus pulls no punches. 

Did he start the scuffle? What did he do? 

There is a thread on Redvee titled state of the game and a poster on there quotes a tweet from Steve Mascord saying the NRL will have nothing to do with us while Wood is involved. It then goes on to mention this is why Beaumont and McManus want Wood in because they don’t have the cash to compete with what the NRL want to do with the sport here.


Another interesting thing is did anyone pick up on what Carney was saying about the sport before kick off that bigger things are about to happen in the next few weeks than when we went to Summer rugby.

The game is corrupt, never a try