when is this guy gonna start doing something about the current situation, the bloke stands in the south stand and knows exactly the feelings of the majority but seems not to take any part in any decision making except stumping up the cash for overated aussies, i am sorry but i would rather do without his cash injections and have somebody who has got the balls to stand up and speak for the fans behind closed doors or actually express his own feelings to the board, dont get me wrong i aint aving a dig at SM and appreciate what he has done for the club but he is our last hope, he is the only one person(a board member) who is close to the fans and must hear and feel the frustrations and should therefore be banging on the relevant doors every Monday morning and asking the questions, but at the the moment its lets bury our heads in the sand and hope the lowes will be replaced by the highs soon

at the moment its a joke...not just in Warrington but in SL in general, even Widnes are taking the pi$$ out of us and thats saying something.

He won't anything again he said after he listened to the Fans when he got rid of Cullen.
He now relises that he made a big mistake.

The sooner he goes the better, he's just a fan with lots of money, he now's nothing about Rugby League.

Would we remain solvent if he left?

The accounts suggest so.

Directors loans/third party vehichle sponsorship?

PS

I assume you are a shareholder in Warrington Sports Holdings to see the accounts?

Yes we would.

Companies House.

I was under the impression that some of the money he has put into the club is on a loan basis so people need to think about what they are saying here. However I do think his judgment has been poor about some of the individuals he has employed both on and off the field and as mentioned above, he is fundamentally a fan with more money than most which doesn't make him an expert on the running of a rugby league club. I think he needs better advice but peope shouldn't question his motives as he wants the club to succeed.

But not for long with the current b'lends left in charge on their own without the bottomless pit of Mr M's largesse.

I won't criticise him for putting his money where his mouth is but it would be interesting to know how many of the decisions over the last two years were his exclusively or the boards and conversely whether either party questioned anything that was suggested by the other side at anytime - checks and balances so to speak. I don't want him to go, I just want him to be advised correctly as we are in a world of $hit at the moment.

Ive checked on you tube I cant find anything to suggest their fans were all chanting "Are you watching Warrington?" during their win at Blackpool last week......

the Jammy gets....and away at Barrow on Wednesday evening in the National rail cup...at home to Saddleworth on saturday....life is just so unfair.......

we wont even be playing the world club champions this Sunday.

the guy is awesome i can't believe anyone is questioning him, he is one person in the club who is not a problem

for me he will go down as a legend, a bit like jack walker at blackburn, all we need is someone to guide the onfield performance and we will be fine

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.

Agree completely - they have been taking the proverbial in my view. He paid for the train set, they've been busy wrecking it.