Mrs Barista wrote:A CEO is responsible for the implementation of the board's strategy across the business. If his role definition was so narrow, why not bring him in as a ground development consultant only? How did he do with maximising the main merchandise opportunity (replica shirts) or engaging the fans? I'd mention Rovers were late filing accounts while he was there as well, but that's sort of a given.
his role definition wasn't "so narrow" but when he was brought in, he got the job for what he could bring in to the capital projects rovers were planning not on how to run a rugby club, when they were shelved that expertise wasn't needed.
I take your point about what a CEO's job is in a company but i would suggest sport and particularly rugby league operates in a different way to normal business. "CEO's" in sports clubs despite the title tend to work as hands on general managers for boards of directors or cashed up owners and control day to day operations. I reckon there are a number of examples across the superleague of this not just rovers and coming from the background blanchard had he was not best suited to this job. I reckon he is learning this role now at arguably a much smaller club, Harlequins.
