Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:02 pm  

Can he be any worse than the pie and ten pints Nigel wood as a CEO??

He needs to sort out the club with regards to funds, player recruitment and most of all getting some bloddy atmosphere back to a souless ground!!!

If he can do all of that, then he's the man for the job long term!!

[Sadfish]

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:04 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

You have a history with him? Do tell...

Well not personally.

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:07 pm  

Top Saint wrote:

Not quite in the same league as buying a £20,000,000 stadium though is it.

Ok Eamonn we all accept that in a measuring contest you have a bigger wang than everybody else.

However for a £20M stadium I thought you would have at least had it clad.

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:10 pm  

Sadfish wrote:

Well not personally.

In your role as site admin on one of the forums then I take it?

I'll bet it was that 'Saintsfan', she is always having digs at him.

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:22 pm  

Gerry Mander wrote:

Ok Eamonn we all accept that in a measuring contest you have a bigger wang than everybody else.

However for a £20M stadium I thought you would have at least had it clad.

Am I McManus now then?

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:29 pm  

A point worth making is that a lot of posters beef with the club in the last 5 years is that they have been so focused on getting the stadium sorted that the team has been neglected.

Previous appointments were made with a view to securing the stadium. This appointment would seem to say that the club is now focused on the pitch and not the books.

Given how many sports clubs are more interested in making money than winning trophies *cough* Lancashire CCC *cough* it is a good sign that the top man is an expert in Rugby not Finance.

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:05 pm  

Does Rush like cladding?

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:27 pm  

Top Saint wrote:

You seem to forget that McManus is also a fan and the fact that people on here think they know better than him with regards to the club is quite amusing.

I haven't forgotten that at all. But he's first and foremost a businessman (top 50 banker in his prime) and he will want to protect his assets. Surrounding himself with buddies is the way forward in that regard.

I wonder how many Multi-Millionaire financial wizards we have in our midst on this forum.

I'm getting very weary of hearing the 'we must be grateful to McManus for bailing us out' line. It is out of date. If he wants the fans to be forever grateful then he'll soon learn a lesson in humankind because there is only so much gratitude to go around. Once the gratitude well runs dry, less admirable feelings can take their place.

But I am sure that McManus will not want fans to be endlessly grateful to him for doing exactly what he wanted to do for himself. I am sure he knows human nature much better than that.

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:30 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

I'll bet it was that 'Saintsfan', she is always having digs at him.

Rush you mean? I'll have you know I was very polite to him on Friday when he came over and said hello to me and my friend (just after I had, rather embarrasingly, tried to teach my friend the tune to the song on the Red Vee Cafe walls).

Re: Rush new CEO : Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:32 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

Does Rush like cladding?

Apparently there has been more damage to the roof following last night's little breeze and so I'm wondering whether the cladding will ever be done (since that is supposed to increase the risk of the roof spinning off into the stratosphere).