Quote ="sally cinnamon"What concerns me is this apparent inferiority complex amongst RL fans that if someone has had high profile appointments in another sport, especially a sport associated with the middle classes, getting him in is a big coup.
It's also baffling that "delivering the first Wimbledon champion for X years" is being listed as one of his achievements: what part in Andy Murray's development did he play?
Maybe my cynicism here comes from working in government. You will hear somebody has been appointed as a new Director General, on £150k a year, and an email goes round with their outstanding CV.....it will usually list a series of previous jobs in high-profile areas of government which when you dig through, were actually policy catastrophes and the person was moved on because they botched up, but they have turned up in another part of government to botch up again. Everybody's heart sinks. I get that feeling a bit here.
Some people are good at getting jobs, some people are good at delivering.
One thing I liked about Andy Gatcliffe was he was never really high-profile, but during his time in charge the club achieved an incredible amount on and off the field. If someone asks him in an interview to describe how he achieved "transformational change" to an organisation he can describe what he did at Warrington.
I am going to wait to judge the new Chief Exec on his performance with us but I have to say I am concerned that we have got a replacement for Andy Gatcliffe that is not going to be of his calibre.'"
Interesting that you are reserving judgement on this appointment, despite the same people appointing Gatcliffe.
