It is routine to portray a kinder version of events when folks are dismissed but I am not sure it is wise to wander so far from the truth that the reality is ignored.So being hypothetical here......
So club board has 8 members, 4 of which are trust board members
The CB decide they want Paul M to continue on.. Fair play
So at the TB meeting there is a vote about keeping him on and lets say there are 10 TB members at the meeting.
The 4 TB who sit on the CB will vote yes and I guess the rest of the TB vote no which means 4 yes and 6 no...
So 6 part timers over rule the 8 CB members that include 4 TB members ...
Cracking piece of democracy that.. Just like a room of 150 people vote on Removal of Paul Tisdale Contract when we have 4000 in the trust..
In regards to Paul Morrish... How did you vote Doug and Pete....?? Just asking for transparency seeing some of the Exeweb massive voted for you.....
Mind you, I have no idea whether Mr Morrish intended to stand for re-election or what may have happened at the meeting. That said, I do know that best practice corporate governance advises that non-executive directors should not remain on any board for more than nine years: Morrish served for ten. A key part of a non-executive’s role is to challenge the executive directors: it is presumed their independence (and questioning nature) might reduce over time. Freshening a board is typically helpful.
Of course, the board at ECFC has never come close to resembling decent corporate practice as it is dominated by non-executives (seven, six after Morrish's departure) with a single executive director, Mr Tagg. The Trust might have had its reasons for bolstering its board presence but none of them would trump the logic in having a strong non-executive Chairman, another experienced non-executive and an executive board comprising the CEO, Finance Director and Operations Director. If the Trust thought it needed board parity to thwart the will of the club directors, it should have removed those directors. The present set-up is absurd and I would defy anybody to find another similar turnover company in Devon operating in this way.