Not posted on here for many a year but am a regular visitor and continue to hold season tickets making all home games. I've watched the takeover with great interest and the occasional raised eyebrow. However the latest appointment of our new CEO has left me underwhelmed and approaching the future less enthusiastically.

For those of you who think the title of "director" in the current era of banking means board level experience and the ability to run a company are sadly disillusioned. "Director" merely means senior. A business development manager's role is to attract credit worthy businesses to a bank and NOT to run these businesses - that's an entirely different skill set. Whilst our new CEO may be able to read a balance sheet he has no experience of running a business.

Even more worrying is that most recently all the BDMs in the Co-ops north west region were told their roles were being withdrawn and redundancies were made so circumstances have made his services available rather than any great quest for the right man.

This smells more of a " make do and mend " rather than a successful search for the previous CEOs replacement and is worrying. I sincerely hope I'm wrong and David does a great job but he doesn't seem the calibre of individual to take a sporting club forward. Perhaps more "Marwan's man" which would make me wonder why more suitable/experienced people couldn't be attracted.



An argument could be made that Mike Rush who was recently appointed CEO at Saints had no business experience which is true however he has been involved in
the club and the sport for many years having started his tenure as an academy coach and working his way through the structure. Time will tell and as I say I hope my concerns are unfounded - I doubt they are.

The new CEO has said himself that he will leave the player recruitment (if that’s the sort recruitment you were referring to? ) to the experts as he has no knowledge of Rugby League. He has come in to build the business side of the club up and improve things such as the website and the way the club interacts with its fans/customers, which given time I'm sure he will. The CEO is quite rightly staying out of player recruitment, the only recruitment he should be involved in is on the admin side of things, as this side of the club is just as bad if not worse than the playing side!

Let my Mrs run it for them she lets the world know our every movement, and I mean every movement.

For mine Faceless book etc may go forth.......

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Good points;well presented 4.791015625:5