Steve Bettis gone

[s4-blade]

Decided to leave to live in Los Angeles. Wilder often spoke about him as a crucial part of the off the field side of the club dealing with transfers, negotions and the like so this could be a huge loss.

Replaced by Andrew Birks, a long time season ticket holder from Nether Edge.

 

[S5Blade]

According to the OS, bettis is sticking around and working with Birks?

 

[s4-blade]

According to the OS, bettis is sticking around and working with Birks?

I didn't get that impression from McCabes comments and even if so, I can't invisage him having much influence from over in the states. If he's not fully gone then he's as good as gone.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

According to the OS, bettis is sticking around and working with Birks?

there's a joke there somewhere

 

[McGrath]

LA is a shit hole

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Decided to leave to live in Los Angeles. Wilder often spoke about him as a crucial part of the off the field side of the club dealing with transfers, negotions and the like so this could be a huge loss.

Replaced by Andrew Birks, a long time season ticket holder from Nether Edge.

Bloody hell I must have been close to getting that job.
Long time season ticket holder from Sothall called Andrew.
Is it like the Post code lottery any jobs going the do a draw.
Perhaps Nether Edge is more fashionable than Sothall.

 

[Danny_Blade]

CEO Steve Bettis said: "Due to my business commitments overseas, I welcome the appointment of Andrew to Sheffield United as Chief Operating Officer I look forward to working with him to ensure that the off-the-field operations continue to improve in line with the great work achieved on field last season."

That should explain it a bit better.

 

[BushBlade]

This is not good news.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Strange decision imo. Suggests Bettis out soon and this a handover to a young lad with much lesser experience. Good luck to the lad anyhow but it's not how big businesses behave tbh.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Why don't we give Jagielka the job?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Never heard of either of them, are either close to a squad number in the first team?

 

[bromtom]

So Bettis is still CEO but is in LA, and this is a new position, COO actually doing stuff for the club here, while still being able to contact the CEO in LA? Or is Bettis just leaving and they didn't want to make the new guy CEO?

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Strange decision imo. Suggests Bettis out soon and this a handover to a young lad with much lesser experience. Good luck to the lad anyhow but it's not how big businesses behave tbh.

As we all know football is not like any other business good or bad

 

[Melbourne Blade]

Steve if you're reading I'll be in LA when the Derby game on. Can I come around to yours and watch on ifollow?

 

[finlaytheblade]

So Bettis is still CEO but is in LA, and this is a new position, COO actually doing stuff for the club here, while still being able to contact the CEO in LA? Or is Bettis just leaving and they didn't want to make the new guy CEO?

Birks won't have been chosen lightly must have the acumen to do the job (being a blade should be a bonus ) obviously Betti's is going to help him settle in what's wrong with that?.
One thing for sure having all blades in high positions will mean they put the club first before personal gain.As I said earlier they have to have the ability to do the job.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Birks won't have been chosen lightly must have the acumen to do the job (being a blade should be a bonus ) obviously Betti's is going to help him settle in what's wrong with that?.
One thing for sure having all blades in high positions will mean they put the club first before personal gain.As I said earlier they have to have the ability to do the job.

Nothing wrong with having a handover - but be clear about the difference in experience between the two men - and also be clear about the difference in role between a CEO and a COO. They are not the same jobs. The CEO is a position of immense experience and ultimately responsible for all functions of the company. It is concerned with strategy, i.e. the longer term planning of the club, the COO, whilst still an important role, is more concerned with day to day operations. Usually in a company you have a COO that reports into the CEO. You need both to make a business work effectively. Here we have a situation where we are losing the CEO and running with a less experienced COO in his place. Ideally you'd be bringing in another CEO to support him - not leaving him to the COO job by himself.

Does that explain it?

 

[coolhandluke]

This is bad , really bad and has to be related to the tarnished image the club now portrays . Betis has clearly seen the shit coming our wsy now Wilder has been revealed as a liar and a cheat . I feel for Birks in all of tbis , young , inexperienced and tragically naive . Hes like a lamb to the slaughter .

 

[finlaytheblade]

This is bad , really bad and has to be related to the tarnished image the club now portrays . Betis has clearly seen the shit coming our wsy now Wilder has been revealed as a liar and a cheat . I feel for Birks in all of tbis , young , inexperienced and tragically naive . Hes like a lamb to the slaughter .

??? !!!

 

[Norderner]

??? !!!

You can't see he's taking the piss?

 

[I should coco]

He's young but not a complete nobody and has some reasonable experience:

https://www.insidermedia.com/inside...hire_news_tracker&utm_medium=business_article

He will be a key figure in a senior management team featuring chief executive Stephen Bettis, Paul Reeves and Dave McCarthy.

Bettis said: "Due to my business commitments overseas, I welcome the appointment of Andrew to Sheffield United as chief operating officer.

"I look forward to working with him to ensure that the off-the-field operations continue to improve in line with the great work achieved on field last season."

I am sure the anti-McCabes will still read this as another person driven out of the club by McCabe's lies/scheming/cheating. Perhaps one of them could go over the above link forensically and pick out a few odd words to prove how McCabe lies and how much he has taken out of the club.

Also if you read the article backwards and rearrange just a few hundred of the letters, it proves McCabe bought Evans against Wilder's wishes.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Decided to leave to live in Los Angeles. Wilder often spoke about him as a crucial part of the off the field side of the club dealing with transfers, negotions and the like so this could be a huge loss..

Are we in danger of over stating Betty's inportence. Doubt he's that indespensible?

Wilder gives credit to and appreciates every one of his background staff and support team. He's that type of person.

I'm sure I heard him in an interview saying he values and gives massive credit to the dinner ladies that work in the Academy canteen. Are they indespensible too?

 

[BushBlade]

Are we in danger of over stating Betty's inportence. Doubt he's that indespensible?

Wilder gives credit to and appreciates every one of his background staff and support team. He's that type of person.

I'm sure I heard him in an interview saying he values and gives massive credit to the dinner ladies that work in the Academy canteen. Are they indespensible too?

 

[Cerberus Blade]

What I suggest mate is that you Google "Chief Executive Officer" and teach yourself what a CEO does. When you've done that you'll know that it's THE most important role in any company. More important than the Chairman, or Finance Director, or COO, or CCO, or whatever other role you may wish to mention.

The CEO is the overall leader of a business. He reports to the Chairman and the Board - but HE takes all the important decisions. At least, that's how it's supposed to be in business.

I know most of you fans won't see it like that because you see only the financial benefactors as being important - i.e. the joint owners, McCabe and Abdullas Bin whatever his name is. They are financing it, but what happens with the money is not their say - it is that of the CEO.

And now (or soon) we don't have one!

 

[I should coco]

What I suggest mate is that you Google "Chief Executive Officer" and teach yourself what a CEO does. When you've done that you'll know that it's THE most important role in any company. More important than the Chairman, or Finance Director, or COO, or CCO, or whatever other role you may wish to mention.

That is true in most companies but the fortunes of a football club depend on what happens on the pitch. The best backroom and administrative systems in the world will still not prosper if you have a poor team manager and players. For this reason football is different.

A decent CEO would have a hand in appointing the right manager but then has to let him get on with it. In that sense and most certainly in the short term, the team manager is the single most important person at the club.

 

[Sean Thornton]

What I suggest mate is that you Google "Chief Executive Officer" and teach yourself what a CEO does. When you've done that you'll know that it's THE most important role in any company. More important than the Chairman, or Finance Director, or COO, or CCO, or whatever other role you may wish to mention.

The CEO is the overall leader of a business. He reports to the Chairman and the Board - but HE takes all the important decisions. At least, that's how it's supposed to be in business.

I know most of you fans won't see it like that because you see only the financial benefactors as being important - i.e. the joint owners, McCabe and Abdullas Bin whatever his name is. They are financing it, but what happens with the money is not their say - it is that of the CEO.

And now (or soon) we don't have one!

You clearly don't know how Kevin McCabe works. He may have a CEO - a title rather than a written in stone responsibility because not all small companies are run like huge ones - running the day to day business but he and the Prince will make the financial/big decisions. Anyone who has had a sensible conversation with KMc or Jim Phipps will be aware. People appointed and left to run the club are the main reasons investment by the owners has been squandered. Bettis will have expertise they don't, but how the big money is spent will most definitely be their say.

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

You clearly don't know how Kevin McCabe works. He may have a CEO - a title rather than a written in stone responsibility because not all small companies are run like huge ones - running the day to day business but he and the Prince will make the financial/big decisions. Anyone who has had a sensible conversation with KMc or Jim Phipps will be aware. People appointed and left to run the club are the main reasons investment by the owners has been squandered. Bettis will have expertise they don't, but how the big money is spent will most definitely be their say.

Absolutely spot on Sean . A bit like Ken Morrison was at his grocery shop .

CEO is in name only at BDTBL .

The only person at the lane who the McCabe family trust with there money purse strings is Chris Wilder .

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

You clearly don't know how Kevin McCabe works. He may have a CEO - a title rather than a written in stone responsibility because not all small companies are run like huge ones - running the day to day business but he and the Prince will make the financial/big decisions. Anyone who has had a sensible conversation with KMc or Jim Phipps will be aware. People appointed and left to run the club are the main reasons investment by the owners has been squandered. Bettis will have expertise they don't, but how the big money is spent will most definitely be their say.

Can't say I agree with you Sean. The CEO of the football club is THE most important role. That's why Mr Bettis' position is going to be handed to Bladey Blade from Lowedges.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Can't say I agree with you Sean. The CEO of the football club is THE most important role. That's why Mr Bettis' position is going to be handed to Bladey Blade from Lowedges.

CEO is just a title. Nothing more. the example given describes the position at a multinational/huge business. He's there for certain expertise and the day to day overseeing, he may have requested that particular title, some people like titles, but the most important person at BL at the moment is CW. Any future CEO COO or whatever, is going to have to work with him, not the other way around.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

CEO is just a title. Nothing more. the example given describes the position at a multinational/huge business. He's there for certain expertise and the day to day overseeing, he may have requested that particular title, some people like titles, but the most important person at BL at the moment is CW. Any future CEO COO or whatever, is going to have to work with him, not the other way around.

Come on Sean, I thought my post was obviously made in jest,

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Can't say I agree with you Sean. The CEO of the football club is THE most important role. That's why Mr Bettis' position is going to be handed to Bladey Blade from Lowedges.

Nice one , you can't beat a Bladey Blade . He will sort out the queues for beer and pies as his first task .