Re: Life President role : Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:56 am  

guess who wrote:

If anyone should get this. its Rach.
She has been a stalwart of the club for years.

Working behind the scenes in all that time.

Would agree with that although Rach has put forward some good contenders herself.

Re: Life President role : Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:36 pm  

Rach wrote:

Not at all mate ...

Now someone like Ann Self who did the club shop for all those years , Keith our honorary matchday Car Park attendent in all weathers, John Pitchforth Clubs historian and statistician for donkeys , Alan Midgley , scoreboard man despite not being in the best of health, Colin Spencer raffle ticket seller extraordinaire and reserve team gateman or Carol and Maureen , devoted fans , supporters club stalwarts and past players reunion head honchos ( watch those girls still giggle like teenagers when Terry Holindrake talks to them !)
And dont forget SuperFan Sue Dodds ...... all should be given the freedom of Cougar Park and any daft title that goes with it .

Thats the type of answer i expected from you Rach.
That makes it even more important you get.

You are always working hard in the background, just like a lot of people you mentioned.

You still get my vote.

Re: Life President role : Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:24 am  

Didnt read the letter but where has all this come from??

Re: Life President role : Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:07 am  

goosey wrote:

Didnt read the letter but where has all this come from??

Keighley News letters page this week

Re: Life President role : Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:29 pm  

Rach why is there a "vacancy"? What is the criteria and what does the owenr of the role receive?? By the way I too think you should get it xx

Re: Life President role : Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:27 pm  

I reckon this could be a role for representing the club when no board members can make it for away games or meetings with the RFL.

Re: Life President role : Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:36 pm  

Sue Dodd for me in that case, but certainly no objection otherwise for Rach getting the role

Re: Life President role : Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:46 pm  

Hi I'm the guy who wrote the original letter so let me first say that I too am very appreciative of everyone who works on behalf of Cougars whether in a paid capacity or not so you won't hear me knocking them. Let me also say that I wish the current Directors every success as that will also mean success for Cougars; it may also stop them being vilified by ill-informed people in the way that Neil Spencer has been should their stated intention of Super- league in 5(?) years not be achieved.
I totally support the right of any supporter to express a view, I accept that they may,or may not, agree with me but can we please get the facts right.
Talk of burning photographs in the middle of the pitch because of "what he has done"? Come off it!
Lets get the facts first.
Neil Spencer has devoted literally thousands of unpaid hours, over a period of 26 years to Cougars. He has invested tens of thousands of pounds of his own hard earned cash to Cougars. He has been, and remains, a lifelong supporter of Cougars and is still working for Cougars and the Keighley community in his role with the Academy/Foundation.
Cut him open and it will read Cougars all the way through from top to bottom.
Neil Spencer has stuck by Cougars through thick and thin when others have walked away. He deserves rather better than people sniping from the shadows anonymously.

Re: Life President role : Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:37 pm  

franka2298 wrote:

Lets get the facts first.
Neil Spencer has devoted literally thousands of unpaid hours, over a period of 26 years to Cougars. He has invested tens of thousands of pounds of his own hard earned cash to Cougars. He has been, and remains, a lifelong supporter of Cougars and is still working for Cougars and the Keighley community in his role with the Academy/Foundation.
Cut him open and it will read Cougars all the way through from top to bottom.
Neil Spencer has stuck by Cougars through thick and thin when others have walked away. He deserves rather better than people sniping from the shadows anonymously.

Let's bring some other facts to the table then, not just the carefully selected ones that you have posted in order to construct your contribution to this debate.

Neil Spencer presided over the club when it went in to administration on more than one occasion.

Neil Spencer misled fans, the very life blood of this club, by telling them after winning the Grand Final a couple of years ago that the clubs finances were in good shape and we were in a position to make all the signings necessary in order to make us a competitive outfit in the Championship. The truth was we were hundreds of thousands of pounds in debt and 10 weeks away from going in to administration and receiving a 9 point penalty condemning us to almost certain relegation. Many fans have walked away from the club for good because of this. He's never apologised.

Neil Spencer would fail the RFL's fit and proper person test for being a director of the club, so why then should he be considered fit and proper to be a club president?

To be honest I could go on and on and probably break half the AUP whilst I'm at it. The fact is that his time has been and gone, his guardianship of the club was fraught with turmoil and strife and we nearly went out of business altogether. We need to move on and move forwards. Appointing him as a club president would, in my opinion, be a backwards step.

Re: Life President role : Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:14 am  

My final twopenneth word on this, to the best of my understanding one of the conditions set by the rfl before the current directors could be allowed to run the club was that Neil Spencer cannot hold any role in the club as has been alluded to the rfl deemed him not fit and proper person so I cannot see how even if the directors were considering Neil that they would be allowed.

There are in my view others that have been mentioned by posters far more well deserving people at the club.

Franka you seem to be missing the point you must be only fan that I am aware of that actually believes Neil brought club to oblivion and I for one after hearing all the crap after grand final win that financially the club was ok, clearly this was misleading to say the least and the way he treated Barry Eaton and the players and fans is unforgiveable and I almost called it a day at going to watch the club.

The time Neil spent at the club was a personal choice and has no relevance to the fact regardless of the actual sums involved destroyed peoples and rfls faith in his running of the club, remember this was not the first time.

By even considering Neil for this role is rewarding failure and as Stealth said previously Neil liked all the back slapping when things were looking good and when things went wrong has never apologised to the club, fans or anyone so it is an insult to anyone who has supported the club and would alienate everyone bar yourself.

Using your logic why not employ Andy Coulson as communications director.