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New CEO appointed..

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Select coaches said:
I would rather give him a chance to do his job before judging rather than relying on some journalist from Scunthorpe tbh.
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Similar was said of our current ownership. I was one of the voices supporting them. Give them time, give them a chance, that ended well. I’ve been saying the same thing for years about our club. It’s not working. All we have to form an opinion on is what he’s done previously. Not much there to get excited about really.
 

Johnsafc said:
Seen some scunny fans saying he was on 200k per year and that article seems to support that claim. No chance he’d walk away from such a salary to come here if we were going to be sold at the end of May
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He may think there won’t be a Scunthorpe when this dust settles, I’d imagine Scunthorpe would be ower the moon to lose his salary In these strange times.
 
frot said:
The most important part of that process though is the interview, surely. Looking at his track record, yes it's an underwhelming appointment. But we don't know what ideas he has.

On the surface, it's an underwhelming appointment. But I really don't understanding the throthing at the mouth response from this place when we haven't heard anything from Rodwell himself about what he's going to do.
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Poor cv, evidence of cronyism and selected by a group of people who have a near universally bad record of appointments - and no understanding whatsoever of what successful football clubs look like. It’s tough to understand why the fans aren’t confident.
 
riffraff said:
University Educated isnt what it used to be. Half the feckers can’t spell, insert a comma or add up without a phone.
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and a lot of the feckers from before struggle to use a phone or do the special effects on a powerpoint.

poor people get to go to university now too, thats why it's worth less ;);)
 
Confucius said:
oh hang on, someone who isn't interested in the CEO completely ignores the questions given to him and replies with a question of his own, implying that he is now suddenly interested in the CEO. "For the record", I wouldn't employ someone who has failed at Boston, Notts County and Scunthorpe. I have already posted the profit and turnover of those clubs on this thread and I have already said that any sane employer would look at their career history. I haven't been through every CEO's CV because it isn't my job, But guess what? I looked at the career history of the one they have appointed and based my opinion on that. You are quite happy to see what he does even though he has failed elsewhere, it could have been Forrest Gump for all you "care"
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The ceo will have no impact on how much I enjoy watching Sunderland. Until the next Netflix series comes out and we can all become experts and say how shit they were. Like Martin Bain was shit, even though the management team said he did an excellent job with the limited resources we had. If and when football gets going again we won’t have a pot to piss in, so I’d imagine we will be scraping around the bottom of the barrel again for players, I doubt the ceo no matter who he or she is would make much difference to that.
 
Select coaches said:
For the record who would you like as ceo? Who would be good at it?
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That’s always a go to sentence in a flimsy defence. I don’t think anyone on here is in a position to scour the business or football world to headhunt people for a job of CEO and check their availability.

But whoever was appointed, supporters would then look at their past record / career and see how they’ve done elsewhere and make a judgement on whether they appear to be a good appointment. This doesn’t look good
Select coaches said:
The ceo will have no impact on how much I enjoy watching Sunderland. Until the next Netflix series comes out and we can all become experts and say how shit they were. Like Martin Bain was shit, even though the management team said he did an excellent job with the limited resources we had. If and when football gets going again we won’t have a pot to piss in, so I’d imagine we will be scraping around the bottom of the barrel again for players, I doubt the ceo no matter who he or she is would make much difference to that.
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This is nonsense. The ultimate aim of the club is to produce results on the football pitch. That’s what brings revenue in. If the CEO doesn’t make a difference to that, I.e the person at the head of the organisation of the club, then what’s the point in having them?
 
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The Sheepfolds End said:
That’s always a go to sentence in a flimsy defence. I don’t think anyone on here is in a position to scour the business or football world to headhunt people for a job of CEO and check their availability.

But whoever was appointed, supporters would then look at their past record / career and see how they’ve done elsewhere and make a judgement on whether they appear to be a good appointment. This doesn’t look good


This is nonsense. The ultimate aim of the club is to produce results on the football pitch. That’s what brings revenue in. If the CEO doesn’t make a difference to that, I.e the person at the head of the organisation of the club, then what’s the point in having them?
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It’s not nonsense the manager picks and runs the team. The ceo manages the business end of the club.
 
Select coaches said:
The ceo will have no impact on how much I enjoy watching Sunderland. Until the next Netflix series comes out and we can all become experts and say how shit they were. Like Martin Bain was shit, even though the management team said he did an excellent job with the limited resources we had. If and when football gets going again we won’t have a pot to piss in, so I’d imagine we will be scraping around the bottom of the barrel again for players, I doubt the ceo no matter who he or she is would make much difference to that.
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So why did you say you would give him a chance, it doesn't matter to you does it? Of course the CEO will have an impact, with a shit one, the club can go bust. If a CEO wont make a difference why are we employing one? You've just completely educated every single football club owner, well done
 
The Sheepfolds End said:
That’s always a go to sentence in a flimsy defence. I don’t think anyone on here is in a position to scour the business or football world to headhunt people for a job of CEO and check their availability.

But whoever was appointed, supporters would then look at their past record / career and see how they’ve done elsewhere and make a judgement on whether they appear to be a good appointment. This doesn’t look good


This is nonsense. The ultimate aim of the club is to produce results on the football pitch. That’s what brings revenue in. If the CEO doesn’t make a difference to that, I.e the person at the head of the organisation of the club, then what’s the point in having them?
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It’s not a go to response for this at all. Nobody knows who a good ceo would be. Anyone that the fans love would probably not be good at it, as they will probably have just agreed to spend loads of money on players
 
Select coaches said:
It’s not a go to response for this at all. Nobody knows who a good ceo would be. Anyone that the fans love would probably not be good at it, as they will probably have just agreed to spend loads of money on players
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This is also nonsense. Had we appointed someone who had a successful track record of overseeing a club improve their financial performance that then led to club stability at their natural level (or even above that) then most supporters would say fair enough. Had we appointed someone who had a good track record or experience in industry at a relatively successful firm then the vast majority would be open minded.

We’ve appointed a bloke with a proven record of failure who comes with awful feedback from supporters and reporters associated with the clubs he’s been at.
 
The Sheepfolds End said:
This is also nonsense. Had we appointed someone who had a successful track record of overseeing a club improve their financial performance that then led to club stability at their natural level (or even above that) then most supporters would say fair enough. Had we appointed someone who had a good track record or experience in industry at a relatively successful firm then the vast majority would be open minded.

We’ve appointed a bloke with a proven record of failure who comes with awful feedback from supporters and reporters associated with the clubs he’s been at.
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We have appointed someone with experience of the level we are at. We have vastly overspent for many years. If we don’t cut our cloth accordingly we will be bust before much longer.
 
Select coaches said:
We have appointed someone with experience of the level we are at. We have vastly overspent for many years. If we don’t cut our cloth accordingly we will be bust before much longer.
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Experience is all well and good but is it positive experience? Has he actually achieved anything? Has he left clubs in a better position than we he arrived? Looking at his record and comments from reporters and supporters of the clubs he’s been at them the answer appears to be no.
 
Select coaches said:
Scunthorpe are and always have been a league 2 side, with a very occasional season in league 1
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Best way to look at this is that you’re happy with the appointment and seemingly think he’s a good candidate for the job. The evidence at face value looks like you’re wrong, but fair play to you as it’s better being happy than aggrieved.
 
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