Probably since four Premier League titles, an FA Cup, three League Cups and the Champions League had all been added to the Old Trafford trophy cabinet during his near decade at the helm, while the value of the club has trebled to more than £2bn.

could someone please explain what the majority of this thread has to do with Salford RLFC?

And that's all down to David Gill? Not Fergie, the players underneath him and all the foundations they've set since 1986? Well whaddaya know, I've been wrong about football all these years.

I never said that it was all down to David Gill, however as CEO he naturally contributed and deserve recognition not just for the on field success but also the enormous commercial deals off the field. Therefore I dont think you can really argue with using David Gill as a yard stick for CEO success, no matter how anti Gill/Glazer/PLC you are.

Gill was fortunate to be involved at a time of record TV deals for both European cup and premier league, and also a time when they can charge pretty much whatever they want to get in due to all the success on the pitch, leading to inevitable record income. Despite bigging himself up pre takeover about his record in bringing sponsorship in, the massive increase in sponsorship deals (albeit mainly cringeworthy) since the Glazer takeover have shown how far off the mark he was.

Anyway, back to Salford.....

Talent Spotter has beaten me to it. Give it a rest.

Anyway, yes, Salford.

Give it a rest? Do you enjoy being a condescending tw@ on a regular basis or just when discussing anything Davi Gill related.

Your both right, Gill was fortunate and Uniteds recent success both and off the field has absolutely nothing to do with him whatsoever despite his role as CEO. Facts are if success is measured in numbers (record sponsorship deals, attendances, trophies, income, profit) then Gill will go down as one of the best directors. Obviously as face of the Glazer regime many so called "top Reds" jumped shipped and started supporting another club and hoping Gill fell on his sword. Must be hard for those ex fans like yourself to see him do such a sterling job.

Anyway, back to Salford...

Sadly the only people who can afford to go on a regular basis these days are the same people who can afford to drink in the likes of the John Gilbert.

Anyway, back to Salford....

What did he says on the GMR last night? any revelations or was it the usual rambling style questions from Statler and Waldorf with little regard for the answers?

The Co-op Bank can never be regarded as a `Blue Chip` Company now. More an `In the Red (Heavily) Chip`.

'New CEO starts today' has been on the club website for a week.
A minor irritation,I know, but takes 2 minutes to amend.
Best wishes to him in his new job

Tell you what, come and say hello on Friday, I'm fairly easy to find, I'll buy you a pint and we can have an adult discussion about Gill's record and people "jumping ship." I promise not to be condescending, but I am a "tw@".

You buy a pint



ps - you're right about being a tw@

The clue's in his name

I hope he is feeling a little better than Mr Thewlis,over at Huddersfield,will be feeling tonight,after Mason won his case and the salary of a number of other players were made public.

And Sale Sharks have updated their facebook page 35 times since Salford last updated theirs, and it's Sale's off season.

But remember, there's nothing poor about it, we're just a club being run on a shoe-string.

Oh...

Yep. Shocking stuff. The Club has missed a trick with its online presence for years. Great outlay for little input and they still don't bother.

The clubs social media is a joke and is beyond pathetic. The club shouldnt need reminding about how important the use of the official site, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc all are.

I think there will be more than just me more concerned with the new CEO involving himself with recruitment rather than ensure the Facebook page is full of information.
There is to be a new official website and the whole club is seemingly being redesigned.

As a side note - over at Bradford - it appears since Robbie Hunter Paul took over,there have been a number of redundancies - there is a current thread running on their forum - sexism and all sorts;be warned !

The new CEO has said himself that he will leave the player recruitment (if that’s the sort recruitment you were referring to? ) to the experts as he has no knowledge of Rugby League. He has come in to build the business side of the club up and improve things such as the website and the way the club interacts with its fans/customers, which given time I'm sure he will. The CEO is quite rightly staying out of player recruitment, the only recruitment he should be involved in is on the admin side of things, as this side of the club is just as bad if not worse than the playing side!

Let my Mrs run it for them she lets the world know our every movement, and I mean every movement.



For mine Faceless book etc may go forth.......

Instagram.

Good points;well presented



I understand Mr Matthews won't be selecting the players to sign but I just meant in dealing with the paperwork and lodging it with the RFL.( The admin side as you so rightly have stated )
He did say on Radio Manchester last week that a number of players were keen to sign and it seems the owner and head coach are spending many hours pursuing the players so I hope someone ensures the paperwork is finalised correctly.
I agree fully that the club business/admin side is a huge embarrassment and annoying in the extreme;[size=50even to someone as cool and controlled as myself [/size

Nobody is expecting the CEO to update Facebook and Twitter himself, but he is expected to employ somebody who is qualified to do so and knows what they are doing. I’d love to know who the marketing executive is for Salford City Reds, anyone?