Rooster wrote:Sue Dename wrote:Sue Dename wrote:Cockatrice wrote:Professional Management Committee....
David Dobbin (Chair), J McKibben, J Parke, S Elliott, M Boyd, D Gardiner, G Irwin, C Watson, P Rainey, D Miller, S Black, J Robinson and S Logan...
Pro Game Committee ... D Miller (Chair), M Boyd, H McCaughey, G Leslie, J Robinson, B Cunningham and S Logan.
I seemed to recall that the DoR used to be on the committee but that no longer seems to be the case. What does each of thee committees do? Who is actually responsible? As for the PMC its chair resigned some while back so maybe he knew he was working with a sinking ship.
Those are last seasons committees
The management committee is, Chair Paul Terrington, President Graffin Park, VP Stephen Elliott, JVP Gary Leslie, M Boyd, D Gardiner, G Irwin, C Watson, P Rainey, D Millar, S Black, Logan and AN Other
Paul Terrington replaced David Dobbin who had served 6 years as chair. D Dobbin did not resign, his tenure was extended by 2 years over the normal 4, and he was always standing down at that point.
Pro Game Board, D Millar, M Boyd, H McGaughey, G Leslie, Logan & B Cunningham
I would love to know what those committees true feelings on the way Ulster is performing at present.
Me too Brother Rooster, it would require extreme myopia to believe that we are
"doing a lot of good things, even if it may not look like it" which is the case forwarded by L Kiss Esq.
What is absolutely apparent from the outside is that this is a team/club in serious crisis both on & off the pitch thanks to many factors. These include but are probably not limited to the following:
1) The CEO whose time of usefulness appears to be over, we see nothing from him but occasional soundbites, most of which are bizarre & bullshit combined.
He claims that numbers are rising playing the game, so Mr Logan, why not talk us through the adult male numbers and clarify why so many matches are cancelled as clubs can't field a team.
Talk us through why you presided over open conflict in the coaching regime for more years than was remotely healthy without acting in a timely manner.
Talk us through why you bullshit about extensive world searches resulting in the appointment of the best-qualified man - Les Kiss - who doesn't appear to know the difference between his ass & a hole in the ground, when we all know that he was never the candidate of choice, who was a man who didn't come because he would have been saddled with Dumb & Dumber, both of whom appear to be doing OK elsewhere. (NB. Ospreys pack is not their problem)
2) The team are coached by a prime exponent of mumbo-jumbo, I assume he was interviewed though perhaps D4 simply appointed him. If he was interviewed I suggest those on the panel (or was it just the CEO) need to look hard in the mirror for accepting a totally untested coach in top position and it could only have been a case of bullshit baffling brains. In a professional sports business, it happens but a bluffer shouldn't get the gig and if he does, when found out he needs to be gassed quickly to prevent ongoing damage.
3) It cannot be avoided, it has to be said, the case of "The Two Young Gentlemen" has been an utter disaster, for Ulster Rugby just as much as to their own lives. Irrespective of the outcome this will not be pleasant. I'd love to say a lot more but won't.
I'm quite certain that those are major factors behind what currently ails Ulster, though not being an insider I don't know what other things are at play other than whispered rumours and accusations.
Neither do I believe all blazers are self-serving timeservers on the gravy train, indeed I don't doubt that most make their own lives time poor by giving it to Ulster, doing their best for little reward.
What I absolutely know is that if anyone tries to sell you the idea that we are just having a few difficulties and all will be well, they are selling snake oil, and blowing smoke up yer pipe. We are and have been in reverse gear for at least 3/4 seasons, the improvements that were undoubtedly made in the years of Fit & Dr Humphreys are gone, fortunes squandered on ill-advised signings and signings of broken players.
Big changes are required, I know some of them I hope there are people in place with the guts to make them.
what is a podium4sport, 4medals? We won't need one.