And a local lad coming home with the relevant experience in the industry. Sounds like a great story to me.
Off the field operations
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If he's replacing Davison, maybe they are letting him leave with a bit of dignity?
I'd be shouting it from the roof tops
From what I've read there is a bit of a handover then Davison will be away. I genuinely don't like to see people struggle but I do think Davison is way out of his depth here at safc. He maybe superb in a different industry with 15000 employees doing as they are told contractually but unfortunately he hasn't got that here. He's got 35000+ vocal members of a club we are all invested in, who have a voice on various platforms (rightly or wrongly) and that's what he has to deal with.If he's replacing Davison, maybe they are letting him leave with a bit of dignity?
I'd be shouting it from the roof tops
Tough gig but he has been poor imo.
He is out of his depth but i do wonder of he's going to be the fall guy for mistakes from above
That could be the case. The recruitment/scouting/data/ side of things have had investment. Pitches at the AoL and SoL have had money, if his area of the business has been neglected then, to be honest, he should have spoken up.
I bet Speakman would have kicked off if there was no money to recruit Harvey or the Data team.
I.e to put his team in place behind the scenes. I don't expect Davison to answer the phones at the ticket office.
The usual argument is that on the field is more important so they have concentrated on that.
However if the owners are as good and well connected as they claim then surely doing both together isn't a major thing
was he head of Northumbria policing, inc for the Euros or some such? I can see how he gets a job like this but surely he needs sorting like the other under-performers. This is the same bloke who has done nowt about away fan missiles into the lower north stand ?
hmm, the off field stuff really does need some work.
Too much wrong for an easy fix it seems. Too many have got used to a bad culture of minimal performance.
It takes a lot to sort all that and it usually means a very big clear out . Sometimes you lose some people you'd rather keep, but change has to be made and good people can be brought back. Or as sometimes happens, and my preference, ask everyone to re apply for their jobs. And then restructure with your best people, but it has to be different.
No signs of such a big change though. Let's hope that it is seen as necessary.
I don't know if it fits into here or not but the SOL has been picked as a venue for the Women's Rugby World Cup in two years time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/66576330
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/66576330
The world cup is between 22 August and 27 September 2025 so this is going to have a big knock on effect for our season. Either making our home ground unavailable to us and / or messing up the playing surface
It'll be great for the city just like this year's triathlon was. Hopefully the playing surface will hold up so it doesn't effect us too much.
This is my thought as well. Great for the City but it was only 8 a side rugby that ****ed Coventrys pitch up so I really hope ours holds up to full size matches.
I would be absolutely against anything disrupting our matches. We're a football club,it's who we are,and no amount of additional revenue is justified if it interferes with that focus.
Agreed mate football should always come first. The stadium only gets used 1 or 2 times every two weeks. If we can generate more income by using it more then that can only be good. The caveat should always be that it should never interfere or hurt the football side.
I doubt it'll be too much of a problem, mate. Sid James park staged 3 games during the 2015 Rugby World Cup, Villa Park held 2, as did Brighton and Elland Road. All of those games were in October during the football season. You can easily accommodate Rugby fixtures for that on weekends when we're away or at the international break in early September, as I doubt it'll be more than 4 or 5 games maximum.
Pitches at the skunks, Villa Park, Brighton, Leicester, Leeds and Man City all held up pretty well during that world cup. I think in Coventry's case it was really down to negligence on maintaining the pitch by Coventry then ,rather than anything to do with a few Rugby Sevens games played over a couple of days.
Yes. This is true. Wasps had no money, Coventry had no rights and it was left alone at a critical time.
