At least he would have been cute!

Only if you were a bitch.

Oh Dear.

The McManus Mafia cements its position.

Makes it very difficult for Brown to change direction or for any future coach coming in
to the club.

Suppose they had to make room for the impending appointment of Wellens to some
made up job.

I think fans need to get over the fact that McManus owns the majority of the club and has spent a lot of his own money saving our club. Given this, he is quite entitled to employ anybody he chooses in any capacity if he so wishes.

Certain individuals need to get a grip, McManus mafia indeed

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If you are unhappy with this, buy the club and sack them all. Individuals are constantly saying 'spend some money and buy a halfback', well maybe we should have a collection at the next home game where everybody pays £25 for the purchase of said halfback.

=#FF0000All fans now in uproar at request to spend their money to buy players.

He owns the club and he can do as he pleases, if you don't like it don't go.

What a silly thing to say.

Owners of clubs are transitory, as indeed are chief execs. Just because we presently have a chairman who likes to surround himself with his chosen boys doesn't mean to say the fans have to approve of or feel comfortable with that approach, which is amateurish to say the least, and not particularly good for the long term future of the club (surrounding yourself with yes men never is). Fans will outlast McManus and indeed any other chairman. Fans can still support the club even if they don't always approve of what the leadership in that club are doing all of the time.

You seem to forget that McManus is also a fan and the fact that people on here think they know better than him with regards to the club is quite amusing.

I wonder how many Multi-Millionaire financial wizards we have in our midst on this forum.

In any case he has a majority shareholding, there are other directors, there are plenty of shareholders.

In reality though he is the main man and the money man or the person who sorts the money out.

I kind of like Mike's style, although he can be a bit jumpy with people comments about him online, only time will tell if this CEO role is really much different from what he was doing anyway and whether indeed he can excel at it.

Whether he likes me is a different story

I thought buying a five year season ticket , merchandise and refreshments did go some
way to contributing to the club rather than just subsidising a home for ex-pros and hangers on.

I was under the impression that it was seen as valued that 11-12K people felt the same
way for the ongoing viability of the club.

Not quite in the same league as buying a £20,000,000 stadium though is it.

Yes lets give Eamon his four million back and let him be like ourselves spending what we can which possibly averages 500 pounds a season or better still lets mirror the previous board some of whom actually used to pay themselves expenses for the privilge for looking after our club. This is a business decision the clubs business not the fans

You have a history with him? Do tell...

It is one of those decisions that it is easy to criticise, because on the face of it he has no commercial experience or even exposure. Quite what he'll be able to bring the to table in that role other than the commitment to the club McManus mentions is thoroughly up for debate. But I don't feel I know enough about the role and Rush's capabilities to comment that much.

If only others took your enlightened approach.

Can he be any worse than the pie and ten pints Nigel wood as a CEO??

He needs to sort out the club with regards to funds, player recruitment and most of all getting some bloddy atmosphere back to a souless ground!!!

If he can do all of that, then he's the man for the job long term!!

Well not personally.

Ok Eamonn we all accept that in a measuring contest you have a bigger wang than everybody else.

However for a £20M stadium I thought you would have at least had it clad.

In your role as site admin on one of the forums then I take it?

I'll bet it was that 'Saintsfan', she is always having digs at him.

Am I McManus now then?

A point worth making is that a lot of posters beef with the club in the last 5 years is that they have been so focused on getting the stadium sorted that the team has been neglected.

Previous appointments were made with a view to securing the stadium. This appointment would seem to say that the club is now focused on the pitch and not the books.

Given how many sports clubs are more interested in making money than winning trophies *cough* Lancashire CCC *cough* it is a good sign that the top man is an expert in Rugby not Finance.

Does Rush like cladding?

I haven't forgotten that at all. But he's first and foremost a businessman (top 50 banker in his prime) and he will want to protect his assets. Surrounding himself with buddies is the way forward in that regard.


I'm getting very weary of hearing the 'we must be grateful to McManus for bailing us out' line. It is out of date. If he wants the fans to be forever grateful then he'll soon learn a lesson in humankind because there is only so much gratitude to go around. Once the gratitude well runs dry, less admirable feelings can take their place.

But I am sure that McManus will not want fans to be endlessly grateful to him for doing exactly what he wanted to do for himself. I am sure he knows human nature much better than that.

Rush you mean? I'll have you know I was very polite to him on Friday when he came over and said hello to me and my friend (just after I had, rather embarrasingly, tried to teach my friend the tune to the song on the Red Vee Cafe walls).

Apparently there has been more damage to the roof following last night's little breeze and so I'm wondering whether the cladding will ever be done (since that is supposed to increase the risk of the roof spinning off into the stratosphere).

underwhelming appointment, one could be mistaken in thinking Rush has some dirt on the big man himself

Mike Rush is a good guy. Not many people know about the work he does for local amateur rugby.


I think he gets unfair stick on here.

Probably why Gaskell left.