People often attribute negative motivators to people/leaders who achieve negative results. It would be ridiculous for anybody to think that Bill Pulver came into the CEO role with anything other than the best of intentions for Rugby and he honestly would have thought he had the skills to do the job I would think.
Unlike JON, Pulver has never struck me as an egotist, assured of his deity in all things sports leadership, so the situation Rugby is in would I think be extremely confronting and depressing for him. I don't say this as any excuse making, he has failed utterly at the position, but I also understand that there was unlikely to be any other outcome, and things perhaps could have been worse.
I say that because the true genesis of the crisis is decades in brewing and structures from the aforesaid deity of management a the prime contributor.
Hawker and the insular old boys/girls network of board appointees (all of them) wear the failure of appointing Pulver, a man with a narrow business experience and no sport management experience to a critical position at a time of building crisis. And to compound it they did not instil greater sport management skills, or even specialist skills in the board or other executive positions.
