Molynes Utd to adjust board

Molynes United President Herman Cruickshank has said that the club is looking to upgrade its management for a better chance of survival in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) next season.

Molynes battled relegation for a significant portion of the 2019-20 season before it was cancelled and the results voided by the Jamaica Football Federation because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Cruickshank says the club assessed its mistakes over the now cancelled season and realised that a lack of proper management and financing were its biggest challenges.

He says Molynes is now putting together a new management team that it is confident will be better structured and able to see it through the course of the upcoming season.

“We lost the sponsorship, so we are actually in negotiation with Fitzroy Vidal, whom we are trying to bring in as a new chairman. He, along with Peter Higgins, will set up the management,” Cruickshank said. “What we are trying to do this [upcoming season] is centre the thing around a better management structure than the one we had last season. We are trying to build a management with a face to give us a profile so we can sell the product.

“So we are trying to fix the management support around the team for this season. The team wasn’t all that bad, so if we can strengthen the management team with sponsorship and get the players comfortable and in the right frame of mind with salary and the works, that will be the best way,” he continued.

Cruickshank said that the club had also done extensive work on its home venue, Jacisera Park, which he says is more than 50 per cent ready.

“We are working on it rapidly,” he said. “We just need one set of stands to complete the 1,000 (the venue’s capacity), and we are hoping by the end of June, we will have this.

“Somebody has a set of stands at the wharves, and we are trying to get a cost and clear it. We will also set up a technical committee, so by the end of this month, we will confirm coaches, if we will change or continue the same way.”

livingston.scott@gleanerjm.com

Molynes’ possible new management team

Fitzroy Vidal – Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology principal director for energy

Peter Higgins – National Commercial Bank assistant general manager

Ruth-Ann Byfield – Chas. E. Ramson promotion and merchandising manager