34 years old at the start of next season as well.

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Not keen on that, there's enough of a job to do sorting the squad out for the longer term and my view would be the Cheif Exec needs to have skills with dealing with sponsors, Marketing, the politics of the RFL etc Richie has no experience on that side of things

Story here https://www.hullfc.com/blog/2025/01/09/richie-myler-becomes-chief-executive/

Story here https://www.hullfc.com/blog/2025/01/09/richie-myler-becomes-chief-executive/

ComeOnYouUll wrote:Story here https://www.hullfc.com/blog/2025/01/09/richie-myler-becomes-chief-executive/ I'm sorry but that feels like nepotism in its purest form. Director of rugby was pushing it.

ComeOnYouUll wrote:Story here https://www.hullfc.com/blog/2025/01/09/richie-myler-becomes-chief-executive/ I'm sorry but that feels like nepotism in its purest form. Director of rugby was pushing it.

Personally think he's doing a decent job as DOR, given what he was up against when he joined and also effectively learning on the fly. He's still finding his feet as a DOR and should have been left to continue gaining experience in this role, so to throw the job of Chief Executive his way on top of that aswell, a role which he will have even less experience and knowledge in, seems a truly bizarre choice. I'm sure AT is guiding him and mentoring him along the way, but would have preferred to see a more experience hire in this role.
Learning 2 such important positions simultaneously will not be an easy feat for the guy and could very easily lead to dropping the ball somewhere.

Is he in effect doing what James Clarke was doing - wasn't he doing both roles?

I hope they bring in some specialists like marketing and finance as the office team has been pared to the bone I recently years

Seems so and that didn't end well. It's not great that Richie will be approving contracts he's drawn up himself, a good CEO would at least be asking the DOR some questions to sense to check that club aren't yet again entering a bad player deal.

Do realise that sometimes a Head Coach will demand a certain player regardless of what the DOR and/Or CEO think though.

Be interesting to see how FC's overall set up compares to this https://wiganwarriors.com/club/whos-who/

Be interesting to see how FC's overall set up compares to this https://wiganwarriors.com/club/whos-who/