What skills are actually needed to be a good club secretary? Dont get me wrong, I’m sure whatever the skillset is, Chris Parkes obviously has it and he deserves respect for his past service and for stepping in now. But what made him a good CS and how do you identify someone with the same skills to take the role moving forward?
Out of interest I’m wondering why there is a bit of a pile-on for Ron? nobody knew him but everyone seems keen to criticise him. Now it seems he has lost his job and it appears nobody seems to give a shit
did he personally sleight some of the people in here or am I missing something
It was patently obvious from his background that his experience wasn't up to it .Just seemed to me that his cv landed (fortunately or unfortunately)on TS desk and that's how he got the job.A prime of the previous owner thinking he knew best
He had a club secretary role before didn't he? Things may be a bit more complicated at our level but i'm sure its not rocket science.
He was previously head of operations for the Brentford Academy before they closed it down.
He lives in Essex and took a local job after this.
Some people on here blaming him for a coach journey taking over 4 hours because of traffic is ridiculous.
To be fair he was driving the coach and stopped off in Manchester
Out of interest I’m wondering why there is a bit of a pile-on for Ron? nobody knew him but everyone seems keen to criticise him. Now it seems he has lost his job and it appears nobody seems to give a shit
did he personally sleight some of the people in here or am I missing something
It was patently obvious from his background that his experience wasn't up to it .Just seemed to me that his cv landed (fortunately or unfortunately)on TS desk and that's how he got the job.A prime of the previous owner thinking he knew best
He had a club secretary role before didn't he? Things may be a bit more complicated at our level but i'm sure its not rocket science.
He was previously head of operations for the Brentford Academy before they closed it down.
He lives in Essex and took a local job after this.
Some people on here blaming him for a coach journey taking over 4 hours because of traffic is ridiculous.
Was he? Brentford sources suggested his role there was exaggerated by Charlton.
Good old Rick putting the knife in again - never probably met the guy!!!
What skills are actually needed to be a good club secretary? Dont get me wrong, I’m sure whatever the skillset is, Chris Parkes obviously has it and he deserves respect for his past service and for stepping in now. But what made him a good CS and how do you identify someone with the same skills to take the role moving forward?
Attention to detail, multi-tasking, planning, understanding complex regulations, dealing with demands from multiple parties eg managers, directors, players, EFL, FA other clubs, comms team, sending faxes.
Also massively unlikely for a whole fax network to go down but email servers drop out pretty regularly. If our email server went down on deadline day and we couldn’t make signings we wanted it would be chaos
I believe (happy to be corrected) that a fax is the only form of contractual document that can be signed, sent and accepted as a legally binding document ? We scan and send signed agreements by the dozen in my work every day.
Many years ago I was working for a computer firm in Basingstoke where one of guys developed some software that allowed a Mac computer to send and receive faxes.
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Dont get me wrong, I’m sure whatever the skillset is, Chris Parkes obviously has it and he deserves respect for his past service and for stepping in now.
But what made him a good CS and how do you identify someone with the same skills to take the role moving forward?
You probably recruit from another league club
Unhackable i believe. I think i read they're one of the most secure methods of comms unless im misremembering/ talking nonsense which is probable.
We scan and send signed agreements by the dozen in my work every day.