Roger Draper, he seems to have a very good CV and hopefully can push this club and the sport forward.

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Great news re new CEO. Wolves board obviously ambitious to do well on and off pitch . I met roger when he did a sports management talk at my sons university. He's a top guy and we are lucky to have someone of his calibre as Ceo. I'm even more excited about the new season.

Great appointment

A very, very high profile appointment, and a very good one too. Draper has had his criticism in the LTA for falling participation amongst over 16s in tennis, but he's overseen a lot of good stuff, including the first British male to win Wimbledon for 77 years.

Just shows that Warrington are going places when they can attract such a high profile name.

happy with that he sounds like a great recruit to the Wire cause.

...bit of a connection growing between Tennis and RL now.....first Richard Lewis now this..weird.

Very happy with this.

His CV speaks volumes and he's played the game, so the passion will be there.

Before we get too excited, what are the real reasons for this being a great appointment?

Is it that he has had high profile jobs or is he a proven winner, that wherever he goes he leaves a lasting legacy of achievement and success?

For me , I don't think its about profile at all, both sport England and tennis in the uk are big buisnesses. He seems to have left them in a better place than they were before, especially from a finance and commercial angle. Add in the success of the lottery and a Wimbledon champion after 70+ years, I am happy with this appointment by the club !

Anyone who can lift the profile of the sport in general ,not just at Warrington, can't be a bad appointment .

The key difference between Roger Draper and Richard Lewis is that Roger played RL whereas Lewis was a Tennis boy and that is where his heart lay. Hopefully as well as being an astute businessman his passion for the game will shine through too.

Lewis turned down a substantial amount of money from Betfair to sponsor Super League because he was ante Gambling and traded it for a few of Stobarts Wagons to be painted. Let's hope Mr Draper is a little more astute than that. We now have the Challenge Cup sponsored by Ladbrokes.

PS Knutsfordwire we are in the same town, a small group of us watch the RL on a Friday night in the Cross Keys to show the Kick and Clap lot some decent rugby (though last weekend didn't help). Even Ian Sibbit and family joined us one night for a couple of beers.

Big appointment for sure. There are a few big challenges to face.

like competing against Friday Night Premier league games on sky from 2016..................

Know nothing of him, ask me what i think in a few years.

to continue on My premier league theme does anyone give a toss that Richard Scudamore isnt responsible for England Winning a world cup when his league have just trousered 5 billion quid for telly rights....

I believe most of the Premier League games will be in the Super League off season....

Seems to be a good appointment. Roger Draper has worked for some big organisations who, as previous people have stated, he has left in better shape than they were when he joined.

He's a Rugby League man and that is a big catch in itself. I'm sure the club will continue to improve on and off the pitch under his wing.

Getting the attendances back up following on from last year has to be a start. Saturday was good crowd but it was opening day. We need to get back to two/three years ago when every home league game was 10,000+.

The club has made so much progress since we moved to HJ so it will no doubt keep going.

Very true Nico.

I'd say the aim is to at least get the average attendance over 10k.

You don't need a £100,000+ chief executive
to work that problem out.

There's an easy formula for that...

winning well + consistently = more fans.

I'm not a big fan of Sally's posts, but they may well have a point on this occasion.

The appointment is undoubtedly high-profile.
But even a cursory sift through Google News can be eye-opening.

He seems to be of a good pedigree but I will reserve judgement for what he does for the wire.

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.

I agree with most of this, the guy has a good CV but I know nothing about him but I do think Moran would have done his homework and we won't be let down by this appointment.

Will he be being paid what he was on at the LTA? £640K a year!!!!

Has he had a job since he resigned from the LTA in September 2013?

Might have been a good idea to splash out on a top of the range cap busting Aussie & call him the CEO then he could volunteer to turn out on matchdays "because he loves his rugby".