FITZ: BIG CHANGES NEEDED

WARRINGTON chief executive Karl Fitzpatrick welcomed changes at the top of rugby league but insisted: "Now we need a dynamic leader.”

- DAVE CRAVEN

Yet another power struggle saw RFL chair Simon Johnson resign on Tuesday. The governing body has lurched from crisis to crisis recently with a shoddy handling of the Salford takeover plus the exit of director Robert Hicks after a six-month suspension. Bradford Bulls part-owner Nigel Wood, forced out of the RFL when chief executive in 2018, is earmarked to return as interim chair.

That has caused outrage from some quarters.