The paper basically said that de Jong would give the appearance of being a likely front runner and David Parker from Auckland Football would be another candidate. I don't really know enough about de Jong from a business standpoint but his background would give the suggestion of having some suitable skills. The reason I don't like de Jong is because he is an annoying commentator but that's hardly grounds or correlation to say he would be a poor CEO. It may well be his forte.
David Parker I have met a couple of times and seems to be doing a good job at Auckland.
I don't think I would have too much of an objection to either of those two getting the job. The writing does appear to be on the wall for Fred to get it though. I was the one that speculated about Ricki moving back to HQ because either December or August, he wont be in the AWs role anymore. It would seem that such is the support he gets from the mothership, he would be scooped back under the wing as technical/HP director (speculating)
Anyone want to put a friendly bragging rights on it the next courses of action?
I've got de Jong to CEO, Herbert into the role that deJong currently has now and Emblen as AWs coach.