CFU Operational Board Appointments etc

Good luck to all board members....those re elected and those having a go for the first time. Without these people and their considerable time input and effort we would have no football team to support.

Looking forward to finding out their responsibilities within the structure for the coming season.

It would be nice to receive regular updates from each of them too as to their progress against their aims and targets.

They need to seriously up their communication game, and show us what they are actually doing to deserve such prestigious office.

Its been a hiding place for the last 12 months, sending Mark Maguire out to face the flak when it started flying.

I've no wish to be a board member, but I do object to up to £150k of the clubs money being wasted on paying off failed managers. I support the club in different ways mainly by going to matches home and away. If you're happy with the way JM was backed almost to the point of destroying the club fair enough. My opinion.

Hmm,is that a wise comment publicly dissing somebody before they've started the role?

Jesus seriously? Absolute joke that would be.

Very disappointing this was, hardly inspiring choices. We need strong communicators on the board to drag this club through this bad patch, and neither has shown this as a strong point over the past six months.

I follow all social media outlets, get CFU member newsletters and read the local press, and what do I know about them? One has brought in a streaming service for CFU meetings and the other has done nothing...

Clear roles and responsibilities, reporting directly to members with tangible evidence of impact. That is the way the board should work. We can then all assess the impact of those that are voted on and entrusted to run the club on our behalf. How do they decide on roles and responsibilities? I would like to think there was some kind of skills audit? The mind boggles as to how those delivering nothing get themselves into positions such as this. And then people wonder why there is so much negativity and questioning of the board in general and the motivations of certain members.

Maybe not, if that were the case. But it isn't.

He has been acting Chairman for months already. Not one statement has been made by him. His big ideas originally were along the new media opportunities provided by Snapchat etc. This was all over a year ago. His review of the year at the AGM was a series of slides and comments about the matches we played. Not what the club and board had achieved.

He may have actually been excellent in the role. But how would we know? Maybe the communications board member should enlighten us. Oh hang on a minute.

I don't know if you attend the CFU meetings, or watch online? If you haven't yet done so, I would suggest you do. Then form your own opinion. This is a crucial season and period for our club. Even our Finance Director doesn't feel our model is sustainable. Strong clear leadership is required.

Actually it maybe that a number of other directors don't want the title or pressure of being Chairman, and that it's more of a ceremonial position in our cooperative.

Nailed it pal.

Even as a ceremonial position, it is one hell of a responsibility. He should be a figurehead for the club. The role should be the one from where board statements eminate.

Ihets a bit unfair on the two fellas named above though, as several others are also responsible for sitting on their hands while McCarthy was allowed to resign failed players, and then go on to blow the Sam Hughes money as well.

It maybe a bit unfair. Not sure though.

If Simon Ollerenshaw had still been Chairman in April would JMc have been kept on, and all the new contracts handed out? I don't believe so. 

Difficult decisions are often made worse when you put them off. 

SO actually said today, in person, that he'd have sacked the CUCK (my term, not his) at the end of the season if he was still Chairman.

There are certain supporters who I would absolutely love to see on the board, sadly it's unlikely to happen. We literally haven't heard a peep from the current lot for years, other than at CFU meetings which, I have to say, have been rather bland with little or no tangible updates and similarly little challenging from those in attendance.

The whole club has had an air of apathy, to me, for the last few years and its seeped onto the pitch. Bignot is the best man for us, I still maintain, but we are certainly going to be playing regional football this time next year.

So how much in terms of much needed financial investment will these new board members bring to the table?

Nail on head.