FACE REALITY, SUPER LEAGUE
Now that Robert Elstone has departed Super League, I think we can reflect that his appointment was a very expensive mistake by the Super League clubs.
Unfortunately, he was the wrong man for the job in the wrong organisation.
The Super League clubs now need to accept the fact that they are part of the Rugby Football League and, whoever they put in charge of Super League, he has to be answerable directly to the RFL board, not to the Super League clubs themselves.
If this doesn't happen, then I predict the infighting we've seen in the last three years will continue and the game will go absolutely nowhere. Is that what the clubs really want? They must surely realise by now that giving power to clubs is to have the equivalent of twelve ferrets fighting in a sack.
In one way it's entertaining, but in the long term it's destructive.
Bill Rees, Wakefield
PRINCE CHARLES IS THE MAN
With regard to a replacement for Prince Harry as patron of the RFL, the HM The Queen would have been ideal of course.
On the occasion of a glorious, flying last-ditch tackle by Featherstone fullback, Brian Wrigglesworth in the 1967 Challenge Cup Final, she was noted by some observers to be up on her feet applauding, in rapturous appreciation.