Gus is to blame!
His track record when he joined was questioned and he has delivered NOTHING but disasters for the club, business and team.
David Hughes saying it was "HIS" fault that we have a crap team this year specifically dates back to October 2013....the clown of a CEO joined us on January 14th 2011.
He fired staff in that first 4 week period and has since gone on to hire his own "hand picked" (HIS WORDS, NOT MINE) Sales and Marketing staff.....only to fire them in 2012 as part of the "why the love has the name change not worked mid-season review".....he failed to deliver a shirt sponsor until there were 7 games left in 2012, refused to front up on the promised (and paid for) fans forums over last year and in short, has hidden behind every excuse I can think of to disguise his utter failings as a CEO.
Every member of staff I have spoken to from the club only has bad things to say about the bloke, which is pretty much the regard in which he was held at his previous role too.
David Hughes may well be a megalomaniacal idiot who is hard to deal with, but it is the CEO's job to defend the position of a company whilst growing it's revenues and opening new channels to market. If David Hughes wanted a yes man, then Paul Blanchard should have remained the clubs General Manager and not been promoted to the board for delivering no growth and when he left, a proper interview process should have taken place to find someone qualified to run the club and to turn around its fortunes.
Gus MacKay is not that man, so yes, by simply taking the job he is to blame, but everything he has touched since has turned to crap and for that, he is SINGLARLY to blame.
David Hughes statement is nothing more than a spin filled smokescreen. He needs MacKay to stay until AK makes a decision on 2015 and beyond.....because no sane (or qualified person) would step up now if Gus were to do the decent thing!
Before the "negativity police" jump on me, the question was asked, so if you don't like the answer, address your ire towards the asker!