Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:00 am  

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2927345480 Monkeys followers need not apply.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2927345480 Monkeys followers need not apply.

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:48 am  

Who at the club is responsible for growing the crowd (to 5,000 target) ? This role doesn't seem to cover that.

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:08 am  

Not sure how many of the key skills the Monkey managed to tick!!

Rather have someone with common sense than a degree if they have the ability to do the job.

If we don't have any excitement over signing players maybe this is next best thing.

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:46 am  

Look on the positive side, at least they are looking to employ a professional in the role, something we have all been asking for.

Of course jury is out on whether DH will appoint the right person, and to be honest the horse has bolted out of the stable a long time ago on this, but for once at least they are looking to get somebody suitable in.

Now if only they would do the same for the coaching position, but hey we can live and hope

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:52 pm  

2 things occur to me on this.
1) if the current CM is leaving end of March that is a tight turnaround.
2) what’s the plan? Are we sticking as is or is the new CM going to do new stuff? If the latter then its difficult to see the path for that bearing in mind that between April 3 and July 3 we have only two home games and one of those is a night fixture where attendance is always down and, of course, by then we could very easily be 0-7- a difficult sell. To me the most attractive batch of games that we could push via adverts etc take place in August and September but by then the season is over bar the shouting so seems a funny time to try a re-relaunch or reinvigoration.

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:01 pm  

It's nothing less than we've come to expect from the Hughes Menagerie though.

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:05 pm  

BigTime wrote:

2 things occur to me on this.
1) if the current CM is leaving end of March that is a tight turnaround.
2) what’s the plan? Are we sticking as is or is the new CM going to do new stuff? If the latter then its difficult to see the path for that bearing in mind that between April 3 and July 3 we have only two home games and one of those is a night fixture where attendance is always down and, of course, by then we could very easily be 0-7- a difficult sell. To me the most attractive batch of games that we could push via adverts etc take place in August and September but by then the season is over bar the shouting so seems a funny time to try a re-relaunch or reinvigoration.

This is why sharing with Dons (any football club) is a bad idea, you lose all those home games while the football club is relaying the pitch. TBF we had to do this at the stoop as well, but I don't think it was a 5 week gap when at the stoop, I only remember one game on the road per season

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 3:03 pm  

Think you are right Crash as a rugby pitch would need far less doing to it. How interest for new fans would be maintained over that large period i don't know. Maybe Hughes hopes we won't have any fans by then.

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 4:17 pm  

I used to actually enjoy those games

Hull in South Wales
Can't remember who we played in Leicester
Think we also played at Orient and Gillingham
I'm sure there was more

Who can remember all those grounds, I'm sure I can recollect more than 4 (did we play at wasps once)? but the old memory is leaking and I can't remember them all

Re: Fancy a job : Tue Feb 22, 2022 4:29 pm  

Widnes at Aberavon. Bradford at Wycombe. Warrington in Carcassonne. Batley at Crawley Town. Catalans? at Esher RU. I suspect I've missed a few out still.