New beginnings - 25% Truth, 80% Bollocks

[Dr Pierre Chang]

All the best to Rob - let’s hope the new guy is more Nick Watkins than Steve Anderson!

[The Grim Reaper]

Having RA there was the only thing keeping me satisfied that the club was being run properly, without him I have concerns.

[UTR]

Shame that 2 Swindon fans in roles with the club have left

[RobertT]

Lets be honest, the stadium development is THE gig in town, so Hall is the obvious choice to take the helm given he comes free of charge (to Clem, as he already pays for him).

[Hyabb17]

The Trust will now have to step up & ensure that club is being run as we were told it would be. I do fear that might go the other way.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

comments from the facebook forum, greatest hits.

"u lot are so gullible unless u see the club release it then don’t believe it"

"There is no off the field stuff, just lies from so called supporters"

"what off field problems?
The only ones I've seen are the rumours, wildly ridiculous claims and blatant lies on here from people who apparently know more about clems finances than clem himself does."

[RobertT]

Oddly, now would have been a great time to have had an announcement about Chris Kiely up your sleeve.  Rob has left us for personal reasons but with two big challenges facing us - developing our ground and getting promotion from this Division in a sustainable way, we are bringing in two people to CEO & COO - Hall and Kiely.  Hall will lead us through a 5-10 year development of the ground to enable us to increase our revenue streams through better use of commercial space, corporate hospitality, extra capacity and running events, while Chris is bringing his experience of the game into the Boardroom, not least his football stat recruitment model that will enable us to extract maximum value from our budget and push towards our aim of Championship football blah blah blah.  Add in the bit about Chris having helped pay off the debt.  Imagine that being the PR back at the end of the year.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Oddly, now would have been a great time to have had an announcement about Chris Kiely up your sleeve.  Rob has left us for personal reasons but with two big challenges facing us - developing our ground and getting promotion from this Division in a sustainable way, we are bringing in two people to CEO & COO - Hall and Kiely.  Hall will lead us through a 5-10 year development of the ground to enable us to increase our revenue streams through better use of commercial space, corporate hospitality, extra capacity and running events, while Chris is bringing his experience of the game into the Boardroom, not least his football stat recruitment model that will enable us to extra maximum value from our budget and push towards our aim of Championship football blah blah blah.  Add in the bit about Chris having helped pay off the debt.  Imagine that being the PR back at the end of the year.

So simple - avoids any knee jerk reactions and sounds eminently sensible.

Not the Swindon way, though.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

So simple - avoids any knee jerk reactions and sounds eminently sensible.

Not the Swindon way, though.

Rather just cover it all up even though nobody is quite sure on the motive to do that.

[RobertT]

As it happens, I'm tentatively in the market for a new role, STFC, give me a bell, we can do lunch.

[Nemo]

Well, it wasn't unexpected, but it is another little thing building up a bigger picture. Feel for Rob, would have been a dream job and this isn't how anyone would have liked it to end.

Clem must be cursing his luck that these personal reasons have emerged at a time when a trusted face at the club with a good relationship with the Trust would be so incredibly helpful.

[Batch]

To be fair, 'personal reasons' may actually be 'personal reasons'.

or 'what's the fucking point' reasons too.

whatever, the safety net is gone.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

What other reason could they give without giving the game away.

‘Rob has decided to resign his post because of Clem’s constant BS’

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

I wonder if this news is a precursor to announcing a couple of signings to keep us on board.

[JoeMezz]

To be fair, 'personal reasons' may actually be 'personal reasons'.

or 'what's the fucking point' reasons too.

whatever, the safety net is gone.

TBF lands dream job and it’s not what he thought it would be / hung out to dry very much falls under “personal reasons.” Maybe he just wants to be a supporter again.