With 73% of the shares (and I assume voting rights) Simon Moran [iis[/i the board.

Director job advert:

Must have balls...........cash not necessary

Apply to Rigsby.....Head of appreciative fans department?

He doesn't strike me as the autocratic type.

This is a wind up right.

ok lets go back in time let simon moran grow up as a widnes fan come back to the present day who is in superleague who is in nl1?

downtothewire message boards achievements to date:

alienate players from fans: check
alienate coach from fans: check
alienate millionaire owner willing to throw money at the club: new task for march 2009, in progress

brilliant

Understood, but a board can help by offering an opinion on the effects of decisions - unless of course they decide to ride the gravy train and just go with the flow while taking the money.

With what's happened over the last two years either the board have been making all the decisions and should therefore be lined up against a wall or they have simply rubber stamped the major shareholder's requests without complaint.

He now's nothing about the game and the money he has thrown as been pretty much wasted.
Id rather have somebody who wants to run the club as a business and not as a fan.

This is despite hime being a highlt successful businessman in his chsosen field. I'm pretty sure he has an idea of how to make a business work.

He's ponied up the money when it was wanted/needed so I think it's rough to complain but I do see where you're coming from. Thing is, he strikes me as a bloke who just wanted to help out but something, somewhere got away from him control wise - I think he's been steam rollered into doing things by others in key decision making positions. You'll gather that I want him to stay, I just want the rest involved to clear off or shape up.

I don't think anyone at all is questioning how good Simon Moran is for the club or how commited he is, the man is a fan first and foremost who put his money where his mouth was when we where in the .

Remember it was Gatcliffe who sold all the shares that he had been given to Simon and pocketed a tidy little sum in the process.

I think where the questions arise is because you can see that the board have made a few cockup's, some minor and some major the biggest being the rash appointment of Jimmy Lowes, not allowing the coach to deal with underacheiving or misbehaving players beacuse they didn't want the bad publicity and the News of the Wolds silence being bought again to avoid adverse publicity.

They wouldn't need to worry about adverse publicity if they made better decisions in the first place on who they where going to employ.

I'm not questioning his business knowledge, im telling people he now's nothing about the game.
He runs the club like a fan would, throwing money at it to paper over the cracks, becoming friends with to many people and letting them run riot at the club.