Top 10 rugby league administrators worldwide

[miguel de cervantes]

Can we get to ten?

- Paul Barrière (FFRXIII, World Cup)
- Ken Arthurson (ARL)
- Richard Lewis (RFL, RLEF)
- Jim Doyle (NZRL)
- John Quayle (NSWRL, ARL)
- Harry Sunderland (RFL, ARL, QRL)
- Antoine Blain (FFRXIII)
- Albert Baskerville (NZRL)
- James Joseph Giltinan (ARL)
- Jacques Soppelsa (FFRXIII)

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- Russell Crowe (Souths)
- Frank Facer (St George)
- Peter Bullfrog Moore (Canturbury, NSWRL)
- Christophe Jouffret (Dragons Catalans)
- John Wilson (?)
- Paul Broughton (GC Titans)
- Bernard Gausch (Dragons Catalans)

 

[roughyedspud]

Richard Lewis

 

[miguel de cervantes]

can I get a Russell Crowe?

 

[Leigh Howlett]

John Quayle.

 

[deluded pom?]

Is this a list of past or current administrators that we rate or just a list of people currently in positions of power?

 

[deluded pom?]

Harry Sunderland.

 

[deal.with.it]

Christophe Jouffret
Paul Broughton
Richard Lewis
Jim Doyle
Bullfrog Moore

 

[Springs09]

Any 10 amateur senior and junior club administrators who work their arse off for nothing to keep rugby league going.

 

[Disinterested third party]

Harry Sunderland.

This is very obviously correct. Helped establish the game in France, USA and Victoria. Strengthened QLD. No brainer.

Needs a long response but John Wilson is another obvious candidate.

Antoine Blain as I mentioned recently.

Baskiville (various spellings) for starting the game in NZ.

JJ Giltinan crucial to starting the game in Australia.

Off the top of the head.

Etc. etc. etc.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Is this a list of past or current administrators that we rate or just a list of people currently in positions of power?

I doubt many if any current administrators would make the Top 10.

The idea of the thread was to maybe take stock of some of the great movers and shakers and understand what made them great, why and how they did what they did? What did they have that current folks seem to lack.

 

[Disinterested third party]

Good thread.

 

[Leigh Howlett]

can I get a Russell Crowe?

No, he's just a rich wanker who can afford to have fantasy about being the Saviour of Rugby League.

 

[taipan]

Peter Gow for a short time. Bit of an entrepreneur getting crowds to Cronulla and making it an event.Sadly lacking with NRL clubs these days.

 

[deluded pom?]

No, he's just a rich wanker who can afford to have fantasy about being the Saviour of Rugby League.

Saviour of South Sydney who are rugby league anyway in Rusty’s eyes.

 

[deluded pom?]

Jean Galia. Seriously though, why has Crowe been included in the list in the OP? He’s all for Souths. He doesn’t really care about the game as a whole.

 

[Coastbloke]

The bloke who ran the Bears for a while. Was a public figure. Hill?

**David Hill**

 

[Disinterested third party]

Jean Galia. Seriously though, why has Crowe been included in the list in the OP? He’s all for Souths. He doesn’t really care about the game as a whole.

Galia more as a player than an administrator but you can't underestimate his significant contribution.

 

[RedVee]

If Moore & Crowe are included Frank Facer is a must.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Alright, the club administrators can go in a separate list, that leaves 10 in the original list. Not that running a club and/or saving one from extinction is a walk in the park. Gausch has for all intents and purposes saved the FFRXIII.

 

[deluded pom?]

Galia more as a player than an administrator but you can't underestimate his significant contribution.

Galia was the man who brought RL to France.