Rugby League: Myler attacks Super League as he resigns as chief executive

SUPER League has lost its chief executive with the resignation of Colin Myler after little more than a year in the job.

The former managing director and editor of both the Daily and Sunday Mirror was a high-profile appointment for the new organisation, but he departed with a sideswipe at others in the sport yesterday.

"For some time I have been disillusioned and professionally unfulfilled," he said. "Integrity and loyalty are two qualities which I believe are very important. Unfortunately, in recent times, these have been lacking in certain quarters."

Myler was supposed to spearhead the marketing of Super League from his base in London, but has looked increasingly squeezed by the appointment of Maurice Lindsay as managing director and Ian Robson as marketing executive.

The chairman of Super League, Chris Caisley, said: "I don't think he has been very happy of late, but his going should not be taken as a dilution of our attention on London."

Super League's sponsor, Dave Whelan, is on his way to taking overall control of Wigan, the club his cash has saved from financial collapse.

A shareholders' meeting today will vote on a change in the company rules that would allow him to take a controlling interest. If he gets the required 75 per cent approval - and the indications from the proxy votes already in are that he will - it will be a question of whether the numerous small shareholders agree to sell to him.

If not, he has said, he will walk away from the club, leaving it without backing and without a ground when they leave Central Park next year.

Meanwhile, the club is to discuss Gary Connolly's future with him at a meeting next week. Connolly is due to join an Australian club next year, but Wigan are keen to retain him and the Rugby Football Union has also made an approach.