Will we or won't we?

Will we or won't we? Dec 4, 2017 12:14:04 GMT Deva Chanter, Firestick Frank, and 1 more like this

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Post by embalmer on Dec 4, 2017 12:14:04 GMT

Dec 4, 2017 11:49:37 GMT Harry Lime said:

Without a professional working during the day, who would contact and deal with our business sponsors? Firms expect to be contacted during the day,when they are open/working. They may also expect and need a day time contact. Our Board would mainly work at the club outside their normal working hours. If they put money in they will expect something in return. It's naive to think otherwise.

Our Board can't even communicate with us, the members. Sponsors would have no chance, and soon drop off. It can't be easy trying to market us at the moment. Even the customers are unhappy with the product.

If we were winning games, and playing well hardly anyone would give a second thought to MM.

As someone else said earlier, we need to separate the football side from the community side. Run the football side professionally. Get the best we can afford and drive it hard.the Community side should be run in conjunction with, but separately. Different goals, different people, different skills.

For what its worth, I like Mark Maguire - I think he's done a decent and very professional job since his appointment at a time when an ineffective board have used his appointment as a way to pass huge amounts of work onto him and simultaneously hide behind him when making (or not making) decisions.

However, I have a real problem with our club's attitude towards the position of the CEO, individuals aside. There seems to be this almost universal acceptance that if the CEO can bring in what he is paid through extra revenue then his position is untouchable. In any other business turning over the amounts of money Chester FC is, that person would be expected to go far, far further than to just make his salary back. I have personal experience of working in these roles and the de facto expectation is to make the business AT LEAST double my salary in order to justify my continued employment.

The problem we have at the moment is that we are entrusting a useless board, largely made up of people with very little business experience, to make these decisions on our behalf. Only they will know the CEO's salary and therefore only they will be able to make an informed decision regarding his value for money and continued employment. I have no confidence in them having the skills to do this.

We cannot and should not be using the fact that we have an ineffective board that can't even communicate as an excuse to keep a position that would be a complete luxury in the Conference North. I think it would be utterly preposterous for a fan-owned, part-time, community club to be employing a CEO at a regional, semi-professional level of football.

Will we or won't we?

Post by embalmer on Dec 4, 2017 12:14:04 GMT

Post by Rio Doherty on Dec 8, 2017 20:42:55 GMT