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Chairman Too Many Chiefs
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Wrexham have more.
THE BOARD
DirectorsErick Thohir
Horst Geicke
Anindya Bakrie
Sumrith ‘Tiger’ Thanakarnjanasuth
Chairman
Grant Ferguson
CEO
Tim Williams
Chief Strategy Officer
Niall McWilliams
Finance and Operations Director
Tim Davies
Club Secretary
Mick Brown gm@oufc.co.uk 01865 337500
COACHING STAFF
Men's Head Coach Liam Manning
Assistant Manager Chris Hogg
Football Advisor Derek Fazackerley
First Team Coach Craig Short
First Team Coach Leon Blackmore-Such
Goalkeeping Coach Wayne Brown
Youth Team Coaches
Chris Hackett
Pablo Haysham
Director of Performance Chris Neville
Head of Physical Performance Harry Routledge
Head of Medical Services Amy Cranston Msc, Mcsp
Club Doctor James Baldock
Sport Therapist John Elliott
First Team Sports Scientist: Dwayne Peasah
Head of Recruitment
Ed Waldron ewaldron@oufc.co.uk
Head of Performance Analysis
Eddie Denton edenton@oufc.co.uk
SAFEGUARDING
All safeguarding queries should be directed to Niall McWilliams: safeguarding@oufc.co.uk
TRIALS: Please CLICK HERE
COMMUNICATIONS
Communications Manager
Chris Williams cwilliams@oufc.co.uk
Programme Editor / Club Historian
Martin Brodetsky mbrodetsky@oufc.co.uk
HR & Operations Manager
Claire Theobald ctheobald@oufc.co.uk 01865 337527
Head of Club Operations/Supporter Liaison Officer
Andy Taylor ataylor@oufc.co.uk 01865 337524
Matchday Birthday Requests: Please click HERE
COMMERCIAL
Chief Commercial and Marketing OfficerAdam Benson abenson@oufc.co.uk
Business Development Manager
Peter Rhoades-Brown rosie@oufc.co.uk 01865 337503
Corporate Sales Manager
Adam Harris aharris@oufc.co.uk 01865 337513
RETAIL AND TICKETS
Club Shop 01865 747231Head of Retail and Ticketing
Lee Barton lbarton@oufc.co.uk
OXFORD UNITED IN THE COMMUNITY
To contact the OUITC team CLICK HEREOXFORD UNITED ACADEMY
ManagementStevie Kinniburgh - Academy Manager
Matt Jarvis - Assistant Academy Manager
Nick Adkins- Academy Head of Coaching
Chris Hackett - Professional Development Coach (u19)
For Academy Trials please conact Jefferson Harriott – Head of Academy Recruitment Jharriott@oufc.co.uk
Sam Coleman - Head of Academy Medical
OXFORD UNITED WOMEN
Contact Oxford United Women HERE
I thought they were on the board. Partridge could be a winner.
If Niall stands out it shows to me how inept the rest of them are.
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It looks quite a lot but is meaningless on its own, you’d have to compare with say Salford, Bolton, and Luton.
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Robinson cared a lot too!!
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Our medical, nutrition, sports science, academy departments. “The backroom”. A club employee recently described our staffing levels in numerous departments as “absolutely f*****g massive”.
Not every employee of the football club (or any other football club, for that matter) is listed in the club directory. Nowhere near. So anybody looking at that is wasting their time.
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This is not all of the staff by a long shot. Particularly on the medical / fitness / sports science side.
Where are the numerous chefs and nutritionists? How many people work across the women’s side that only has a single email address? How big is the community team? What about the ticket office staff? Where’s the executive assistant / secretary?
Where is Chris Short? Gary Bloom? Hannah Stoyle? Keira Allen? Jonny Edmunds? Isaac Alder? Luke Dick? Lee Collier? Gerard McGinty? Alexandros Evangekakakis? Niall Keown? George Milbank? Dan Busch? Holly Bridgman? Eddie Odhiambo? Pete Wynne? Christian Fortuna?
The club directory is only the most senior people. The more junior figures and the part-time staff who do 2/3 days per week, just some of whom are listed above, plus those who aren’t on permanent contracts but work multiple days per week at the club on a consultancy or freelance basis, aren’t listed but are very much on the payroll and part of the infrastructure.
I’m not even going near things like stewards or match day staff in all of this - that’s totally separate as it is for every club. I’m purely talking about people who work across the training ground and club offices.
People would be stunned if they saw a print out of every single person who works for the football club, not to mention the level of spending that goes into our away travel and accommodation facilities compared to almost every other club in this division.
99% of Oxford United fans have no idea how enormous the setup is these days or the money that gets ploughed into all areas of the club. Perhaps if they knew the scale of it all they would have higher standards and expectations.
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Because it gets a reaction.
As a % of cost against turnover, the numbers are just not sustainable.
We make a gross loss of £750,000 before incurring £4,250,000 in overheads.
Losses were only mitigated with profits from player sales.
You also have to consider that whilst the average number in the PL is 420, the lowest turnover recorded is still way in excess of £100 million.
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Tim Davies is going the five minute fans forum this week - ask him via that.
That is pretty concerning I would have thought.
Especially based on the underperformance of much of the club.
The new CEO has been in place a while now, so it should be expected that he should have reviewed the people and their performance. I wonder whether he will make changes atvyhr end of the season,
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Is Garry Bloom still involved? he was very vocal a while back but it often felt like touting for more business rather than being vocal because there was something to crow about
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He’s only ever been part-time so has always had other work alongside OUFC. He was still working here once or twice per week in January. A psychotherapist at his level will cost a minimum of £500 per day. Even based on just two days per week he would cost double what we pay the likes of Goodrham and O’Donkor and be comparable to players like McGinty and Smyth in terms of salary outlay.
Worth stating that I’ve got no problem if the club wants to build a massive infrastructure with tonnes of staff, because not only are the owners happy to pay for it, it means that they’re clearly trying to prepare the club to step up a level and not be found wanting. That is a good thing in principle. What I do have a problem with is the lack of expectation and the “but we’re only Oxford United - we’re the plucky underdogs who are overachieving every time we dare to get near the playoff places or attempt to take on the giants of Barnsley and Charlton and Portsmouth” narrative that too many people have parroted, without having the first clue as to just how hard we are punching.
A top six budget; constantly in the top four or five clubs in L1 for agents fees; millions upon millions of pounds being constantly ploughed into arguably the best training ground in the division; one of the biggest backroom setups in the league that is already competitive by Championship standards let alone lower… we are not a small football club. Anybody basing the size of a club on average attendances or how many seats a stadium has doesn’t have a clue what they’re talking about.
The fact that we’re struggling to merely stay in the division when there are clubs in the Championship playoff places with half the backroom staff that we have, let alone our own rivals in L1, is also mildly annoying.
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Tut! Nobody deserves that!
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Did you know Delia made the cake that appears on the Let It Bleed album cover?
I’ll have another Delia/Rolling Stones related fact this time tomorrow.
