Petrie departs…..

[nev666]

https://ulster.rugby/content/ulster-rug ... nterim-ceo

[HammerTime]

Civil servant. Just what we needed

[Bewlay Bros]

Interesting that Bryn coming in was leaked to the media by somebody and then this appointment happening

[Columbo]

So we have an organisation whose biggest challenge is commercial under-performance and we decide the ideal appointment as CEO is… a civil servant!

If ever anything perfectly summed up NI, and indeed the IRFU, this is it

A genuine actual lol moment this morning at least

[Columbo]

(Admittedly an interim CEO but still, lol)

[Bobbievee]

Wonder will he still contribute to this forum?

[So It Is]

So we have an organisation whose biggest challenge is commercial under-performance and we decide the ideal appointment as CEO is… a civil servant!

If ever anything perfectly summed up NI, and indeed the IRFU, this is it

A genuine actual lol moment this morning at least

You have to laugh.

Even if this guy turns out to be a semi-competent administrator, the initial asthetics of the appointment of someone who's job history has been to spend public money rather than help generate and allocate it efficiently is jokeshop stuff.

[HighlandRed]

Watched him play for Dungannon for years.

I'd wait until he's in post before we all criticise him.

[Dave]

With Ulster's injury profile, the former CEO of a health trust could be shrewd, no?

[nonplussed]

An excellent appointment.. To call him merely a civil servant is disingenuous and ill informed. A steady hand who understands Ulster rugby from grassroots level up is exactly what is required.

[solidarity]

Surely we can give the bloke a chance!
I know some fantastic people who are civil servants, other wonderful people with health care backgrounds and a few with both strings to their bow.

[thecrouch]

I'd rather have this guy than have Cunningham get promoted.

At least he's a fresh face around the place.

[Alec Adoo MBE_]

Really not inspired by this appointment. When he was in charge of the SE Trust I was on a waiting list for 4 years to get my Mount Merrion Turnstiles removed. These were 4 very painful years and the only reason I survived was the fact that long suffering wife Audrey massaged Sudocrem onto the affected area twice daily. I know the links between my piles and a professional rugby club are not obvious however confidence levels in this appointment at Adoo Towers are not high!

[Soda]

So,in desperate straits we appoint some aul bluffer who's never actually run a business in his puff.
What could possibly go wrong?


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[Gerald the Mole]

super appointment and has my vote , some sh1t talked here about not running a business, look at that clown Logan he ran many businesses and all failed even flogged one of to employees with a £2m loss ffs , we want a CEO not some who ran a business ffs , he managed budgets bigger that UR could dream off , an out and out Ulsterman , I would be more than happy if it was permanent,