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Also pleasing is the quote below
"Harlequins FC Chief Executive, Mark Evans, added: “I am delighted to welcome Paul to the Harlequins family and look forward to working with him in a close and mutually beneficial way.”

What was ME supposed to say . I welcome the odious fat git to to Quins in the hope he further reduces the crowds and I can finally rid West London of ignorant BO ridden Northerners

i don't want to sound like a bitter rovers fan, but despite coming to us with an impeccable cv, he totally underwhelmed in the 6 months he was in his post with us, even though all he had to do was build on the impressive work that had been done by paul lakin (who was poached by wolverhampton wanderers).

His remit when he came was to progress our ground developments particularly a new north stand, bearing in mind his success with similar projects for surrey ccc. Now he may have been unlucky in the timing regarding this project, what with very few capital building projects getting off the ground in the recession, but he seemed to let all the other responsibilities of his job slide, such as generating sponsorship, day to day running of the club and media commitments.

During his reign we also had the farcical situations of the on/off dubai pre season training trip (a totally unrealistic pipe dream), the major problems with kit supplier kooga (pink shirts, not on time etc.) and the players being paid late before christmas.

Although the parting of the ways was reported as amicable most fans saw this as a sacking by any other name. Now it may just be a one off his time at rovers, as I say he does have a very impressive CV that is growing quite large now as he keeps moving about, but whilst there were never calls for his head, most rovers fans were non plussed by him leaving.

I've no axe to grind with mr blanchard or your club, just thought you might want to know how he fared in his last job.

Could be positive if he's got any pals from his Surrey cricket days. The bit in 'League Express' on Monday suggested that the RU club were going to take over the RL club, but this is certainly preferable to that.

Yeah, let's just meander along with 3 - 4000 crowds and hope we bet another licence

I hear there has been a closer tie up between the clubs, don't sweat; clearly the club just don't feel the need to bang on about it and feel it's better to press release the new GM (who by all accounts will be reporting in to ME). It's fairly obvious - that's why he doesn't have the title CEO?

It all sounds very positive.