5 CEOs in 20 years. Average of 4 years per CEO, but in reality, its 3 or so with Gallop (a Rupert YES man) having a decade at the helm.
AFL has had 4 in 35 years - Ross Oakley, Wayne Jackson, Andrew Demetriou, Gillon McLachlan (was being considered for the NRL towards the end of the Gallop years).
NFL has had 3 since 1960 - Pete Rozelle, Paul Tagliabue, & Roger Goodell.
Just using the other two organisations as an example about how stability and CEOs being able to act on their vision can make a difference. AFL was #2 in Australia until SuperLeague f**ked Rugby League. AFL have gone from strength to strength.
NFL are a behemoth now, but it wasn't always the case. They were #2 to MLB and have overtaken them to be the No.1 sports league in the USA.
Gillon McLachlan has now notched up 6 years as AFL CEO. We've been through 2 after he was being talked about for the NRL role. He made the right choice staying down there because he would be out of job had he become NRL CEO, no doubt about it.
Too many empire-building self-serving vocal critical merkins with no solutions in Rugby League. We can have the greatest executive running this sport, but he/she still wouldn't survive or improve this organisation because he'd rightly make a call about an issue and piss a few people off. And off he goes to be replaced by some other poor merkin who will also be shat on within 3 or 4 years.
