In my experience, celebs and tech gurus don’t make good business people. And in my dealings with pro US and European sports teams, former players aren’t considered as sports admins (other than in athletics depts). Just doesn’t happen. Wayne takes the pressure off having a real footy dept … while he’s there … but it won’t fix our fundamental front office issues post Richo. I’d love to see us show Solly the door and pull a young ops gun out of an EPL or NFL organisation.
We don’t need them as business people we just need their money
And in all honesty Rusty seems to be the only bloke who has actually made the big smart calls when needed. Although it does seem that winning one premiership was enough for him.
As for Solly, well commercially he appears to be a top shelf operator. The problems have arisen when he seems to have started operating outside his lane. I get it, you’re a nerd numbers are boring and footy is cool. But you’re a numbers guy
Now this is going to sound cruel hearted and I’m speaking out of my arse without looking at the financials.
But if South’s Cares is part of the clubs overall budget then I think it’s something that needs to be looked at
We aren’t a charity, we are a f$&ken football club and if there’s a million or two that could be going towards getting the best in business in essential football department positions then that’s where it should go.
The Billionaires should fund it outside overall football club expenditure
If that’s what’s happening then I stand corrected, but if it’s funded by football club revenue then it needs to be looked at
I’m sick of having an ex PE teacher who continues to prove he’s out of his depth running shit because he’s a cheaper option same with the anorexic clown who’s in charge of high performance
