all those loyal fans making comments who are not at the game,wat a joke follow your team with pride and not from your armchair.

HIs salary will not be needed. BUt I think a lot would depend on AP becoming CEO, which he cannot at the moment, due to city

The RFL have a regulation saying that a club has to have a separate Chairman and CEO as well. Or at least they used to. Which would mean that AP couldn't fill both roles on a permanent basis regardless of his connections with City.

Not so. Hudgell did both at Rovers and said the RFL had no issue with it when asked in an interview.

From what I understand they have no issue with it as a temporary situation but don't allow it as a permanent arrangement. I could be wrong though.

Not sure- 20 months is longer than the average CEO tenure at Rovers, so certainly not temporary in that context.


Jan 2009
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Sep 2010
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I think the separation of roles is needed for listed companies but not ltd ones.

Just watched it, I am very very very impressed with AP. There were s few things he said which give me huge optimism for the future. He seems to have a steely determination about him and I back him to get it right.

Not sure I buy into the theory that his eyes were all over on curtain questions, he seemed like that throughout.

The key things for me were:-

1) The root and branch review of all coaching.

2) The re-pricing of season tickets to encourage bigger crowds.

3) The flexibility over matchdays.

4) The potential investment in training facilities which is badly needed.

5) The things he said about recruitment and using the cap to its maximum.

A very exciting time for the club I feel.

Oh come on how gullible are you? Surely everyone knows this is a cunning plan to boot us out the KC and shut us down / merge us

I have been very cautious tbh mate but watching that has changed my mind

Point 5 was the most interesting for me, does he mean we have not been spending the full cap or is it that we have not been exploiting loopholes like other clubs?

Totally agree. I've also been very cautious about getting carried away but listening to AP in that interview is nothing short of inspiring. It is impossible to not be 100% positive about everything on and off the pitch.

It is very easy to think that we will win something under AP very soon.

I am more positive than I have been for a very long time.