CHARLTON SIGN NEW CEO - DANE MURPHY (p13. Oh no they don’t)

blackpool72 said:

No conspiracy theory needed. 
CCharlton wanted him.
He wanted to come. 
Unfortunately he has been unable to sell his shares so the deal is off 

I note your spelling of Charlton is the same "mistake" as the spelling of "Aaron" on Elvis's grave. He didn't die in 1977 and you are clearly a part of the Charlton CEO coverup.

Don't listen to him sheeple. 

16 pages on someone who didn’t actually end up joining. Not a bad effort but miles away from giving Hayden Mullins a run for his money.

ForeverAddickted said:

Why would the Dane Murphy have any bearing on Knibbs joining or not in the first place?

He was the last person to have the cheque book, and now he's gone we had to place a stop on it, Reading wouldn't accept luncheon vouchers or an IOU until the replacement chequebook arrived and so told us to go boil our heads.

bobmunro said:

We definitely do not need a CEO. As Chairman, GC acts as the central point ensuring football and non-football related activities are working in harmony, and also the primary conduit to GFP ownership group. An issue there is that GC also has a day job of his own but would appear to be the ideal person.

Structure with three board directors: 

Chairman 

Chief Operating Officer (Ed Warwick/ANO) with the following responsibility - football experience is not a prerequisite.

- Finance (HoF is enough, an FD is not required)

- C&B and Hospitality

- Third Party Commercial Partnerships/Sponsorship

- Marketing/Comms

- Ticketing

- HR

- Stadium and Training Ground Facilities Operations incl H&S/Maintenance/Security

- Admin/Secretarial

Director of Football (Jim Rodwell/ANO) with the following responsibility in close cooperation with First Team Manager - football experience is a prerequisite.

- First Team and Academy Operations

- Player Performance Analysis - existing and potential new recruits

- Medical and player welfare

- Scouting

- Player Acquisition 

 

Got a lot of time for Gavin Carter but not only does he have another job, he is based on a different continent.

Yes, technology means he can stay in touch but he is still very much a non-executive Chairman as well as a minority shareholder.

Titles mean little and are often as much for external viewing or individual status (see the use of Vice-president in US companies) but I think we do need one, on the ground, leader whether we call them a CEO or something else.

Henry Irving said:

bobmunro said:

We definitely do not need a CEO. As Chairman, GC acts as the central point ensuring football and non-football related activities are working in harmony, and also the primary conduit to GFP ownership group. An issue there is that GC also has a day job of his own but would appear to be the ideal person.

Structure with three board directors: 

Chairman 

Chief Operating Officer (Ed Warwick/ANO) with the following responsibility - football experience is not a prerequisite.

- Finance (HoF is enough, an FD is not required)

- C&B and Hospitality

- Third Party Commercial Partnerships/Sponsorship

- Marketing/Comms

- Ticketing

- HR

- Stadium and Training Ground Facilities Operations incl H&S/Maintenance/Security

- Admin/Secretarial

Director of Football (Jim Rodwell/ANO) with the following responsibility in close cooperation with First Team Manager - football experience is a prerequisite.

- First Team and Academy Operations

- Player Performance Analysis - existing and potential new recruits

- Medical and player welfare

- Scouting

- Player Acquisition 

 

Got a lot of time for Gavin Carter but not only does he have another job, he is based on a different continent.

Yes, technology means he can stay in touch but he is still very much a non-executive Chairman as well as a minority shareholder.

Titles mean little and are often as much for external viewing or individual status (see the use of Vice-president in US companies) but I think we do need one, on the ground, leader whether we call them a CEO or something else.

The club needs a leader who is also its public face, especially as the substantive owners don’t want that role. Gavin Carter isn’t going to be able to do it, as you say, and I don’t think Rodwell or Warrick fits the bill.

ElfsborgAddick said:

bobmunro said:

We definitely do not need a CEO. As Chairman, GC acts as the central point ensuring football and non-football related activities are working in harmony, and also the primary conduit to GFP ownership group. An issue there is that GC also has a day job of his own but would appear to be the ideal person.

Structure with three board directors: 

Chairman 

Chief Operating Officer (Ed Warwick/ANO) with the following responsibility - football experience is not a prerequisite.

- Finance (HoF is enough, an FD is not required)

- C&B and Hospitality

- Third Party Commercial Partnerships/Sponsorship

- Marketing/Comms

- Ticketing

- HR

- Stadium and Training Ground Facilities Operations incl H&S/Maintenance/Security

- Admin/Secretarial

Director of Football (Jim Rodwell/ANO) with the following responsibility in close cooperation with First Team Manager - football experience is a prerequisite.

- First Team and Academy Operations

- Player Performance Analysis - existing and potential new recruits

- Medical and player welfare

- Scouting

- Player Acquisition 

 

Fancy coming out of retirement?

There is more chance of hell freezing over.

Vitesse have lost their appeal against being thrown out the Dutch league so I don't think that will have helped things.... 

SporadicAddick said:

blackpool72 said:

No conspiracy theory needed. 
CCharlton wanted him.
He wanted to come. 
Unfortunately he has been unable to sell his shares so the deal is off 

I note your spelling of Charlton is the same "mistake" as the spelling of "Aaron" on Elvis's grave. He didn't die in 1977 and you are clearly a part of the Charlton CEO coverup.

Don't listen to him sheeple. 

Bollox. 

Rumbled at last.

Henry Irving said:

The M******* fiasco has highlighted, to me at least, that we remain without a named CEO.

Big factor in why no one has felt they had to take responsibility.

fenaddick said:

It does rather highlight than no one in charge has ever run a football club and is figuring it out on the job. From what we've seen it appears that communication with fans is lower on their priorities than marketing 

We have a named Head of Communications.  He is choosing for the club to stay silent on the matter and not take responsibility.  Says it all for the quality of the management team under the SMT.  

Henry Irving said:

The M******* fiasco has highlighted, to me at least, that we remain without a named CEO.

Indeed, but as a "football " CEO, I'm not sure Murphy would entirely fit that role anyway.

I never entirely understood Murphy's role. A massive amount of duplication with Rodwell, rather than someone to run the non football side.

We have lost a few key staff (Tracey, Dr Abbott) and seem unable to or lacking urgency to replace them and hire a CEO. Which is worrying 

fenaddick said:

BalladMan said:

fenaddick said:

It does rather highlight than no one in charge has ever run a football club and is figuring it out on the job. From what we've seen it appears that communication with fans is lower on their priorities than marketing 

We have a named Head of Communications.  He is choosing for the club to stay silent on the matter and not take responsibility.  Says it all for the quality of the management team under the SMT.  

The comms have been poor but it's pretty obvious that the Head of Comms can't make the decision to apologise on behalf of the club. They could have made the decision to communicate the re-routing better, the statement could have acknowledged that but the Head of Comms doesn't choose whether or not the whole organisation apologises, that's above their head

Agreed, and good comms cannot disguise, still less improve, a bad product, decision or outcome.

BalladMan said:

fenaddick said:

BalladMan said:

fenaddick said:

It does rather highlight than no one in charge has ever run a football club and is figuring it out on the job. From what we've seen it appears that communication with fans is lower on their priorities than marketing 

We have a named Head of Communications.  He is choosing for the club to stay silent on the matter and not take responsibility.  Says it all for the quality of the management team under the SMT.  

The comms have been poor but it's pretty obvious that the Head of Comms can't make the decision to apologise on behalf of the club. They could have made the decision to communicate the re-routing better, the statement could have acknowledged that but the Head of Comms doesn't choose whether or not the whole organisation apologises, that's above their head

I disagree. In the absence of a decision maker, the heads of comms should be pushing a strategy to manage the situation and start to repair the damage. Nothing about the current comms dept leads me to believe it has effective leadership, including and not limited to, the example you provided. 

Airman’s point re: Wembley tickets is another example of a monumental comms fail.  

If the head of comms had an assertive personality he wouldn’t have survived multiple regimes, several of them mad. Olly had opinions and was removed by Sandgaard. 

The problem is that the culture at board level is wrong. The comms failures are a product of that. A decent chief exec could sort that out.