After Paul Brown had to step down due to illness and prior to Paul BLanchard joining Quins I applied directly to Ian Lenegan with regard to the Marketing Role. My application was warmly received and was passed to the Recruitment/Headhunter company used by the club.........and that was the last I heard of the recruitment company?. IL then emailed me a couple of times and I met with the RFL to discuss the corporate sales role at Quins, but there was an difference of scales of salary





As an experiment (I am in no way qualified to run a business) I applied for the CEO role that was eventually watered down to GM which PB was apointed. This I did solely through the Head hunter/recruitment firm (why do they use these types of people?) and received nothing, not even an email confirming receipt of my CV.



Regardless of what you think of me or my stance regarding Quins RL as a business, I will still assertain that I was described by the RFL as "just the sort of person Quins needed to drive marketing and attendances"........but maybe my vigour, passion and straight forwardness was a tad to OTT for some.



I would expect that the Marketing Manager at Quins will be next to go, as she would seem to follow PB around.......and we will be back where we were in 2006.....I am not saying I would have done any better by the way,.......but I would have given blood trying!



Still, as you say, I have a Cake Tin to fill and a second NZ NRL Franchise to fight for (amongst all the other boring stuff I get to do over here)...and I will have to content myself from watching the farce unravel from the other side of the world.

another cost cutting exercise at the mighty Quins?

Maybe, but Blanchard doesn't see things through.

BLACHARD was a complte arrogant idiot and did nothing for the Quins whatsover i know also for a fact that he turned down £100000.00 sponsorship deal a few months ago just because he didnt like the company who offered him the money.



Hope you guys get someone half decent that knows what they are doing

If Jeremy Renner and Kevin Blackwell had a son he would look like Paul Blanchard. Any offspring of two men would do a better job with limited resources. Quins may not be better off without him, but they would be better off putting a sizeable salary towards someone who can actually achieve any goals, no matter how small they are.

I'd like to know why companies pay vast amounts to these clowns, who are supposed specialists with no experience in said industry or failures from within the industry.



I work within the sports marketing arena, since coming to the UK I have gained all my roles by going around recruitment companies. I have offers left right and centre back in Australia, however here when dealing with 'specialists' I am often told I do not have the right experience despite it being written right infront of their faces. A consultant at a 'leading sports recruitment' firm was of the understanding that IMG the sports marketing/media giants were a bank....



Rant over

For all the stick GF gets on the Quins board most of his ideas were cheap, realistic and feasible to implement.



The appears club jumps from one initiative to the next with no attempt to gauge effectiveness. Whoever said 'you cannot manage what you cannot measure' was right.



Whatever we do to increase crowds will take persistence, but we need to make we persisting with the right things.

www.sportingappointments.co.uk/j ... hp?id=1484 is this the job description for his replacement? if so, prepare for some interesting news.... "Lead the project team to assess the long term brand name and location of the club."

www.sportingappointments.co.uk/j ... hp?id=1484 is this the job description for his replacement? if so, prepare for some interesting news.... "Lead the project team to assess the long term brand name and location of the club."

It wouldn't surprise me if we ended up being called the London Olympians and moving to East London...

Yes, that could be very interesting - that should start an interesting debate (the moderators on the Quins board have aleady started making whimpering noises

).

That's if the job advert is for Quins...

If not, who else?