Gary Lockett steps down as Southend United's chief executive

2:10pm Wednesday 26th September 2012 in Blues By Chris Phillips

Gary Lockett - stepped down Gary Lockett - stepped down

GARY Lockett is to step down as Southend United’s chief executive, the Echo can reveal.

Lockett has been in the role at Roots Hall for the past seven months.

But he is now expected to return to being a non-executive director.

The reasons for Lockett’s departure have not yet been revealed.

However, his decision to step down will soon be confirmed in a club statement.

Lockett, who is a lifelong fan of Blues, replaced Tara Brady in March to work alongside chairman Ron Martin .

But his departure comes as another blow for Southend after the Echo revealed last week that the club were also under a transfer embargo.

Comments(5)

eurodoomed says...
2:32pm Wed 26 Sep 12

I wonder why? Perhaps he knows the true state of the club's finances. It is time for a full and frank statement from Ron Martin, preferably verified by the club's auditors, as to what is gong on.

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SUFC1906 says...
5:38pm Wed 26 Sep 12

RM does seem to lose a few Chief Executives & one wonders if they maybe want to manage the finances in one way & RM opts for a different way. Finances may be worse than is publicly known. Could it be that possibly a realisation that the stadium building plan is probably lost or Sainsbury's maybe want to start their project at Roots Hall soon that has pushed Mr Lockett to abandon ship? Likely that the club put so much finance into last year's failed bid to get out of League 2, given the size of last year's playing squad, that the funds have got worse since.

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dap says...
7:26am Thu 27 Sep 12

Not good, Why does RM bother to app a CEO when he wants to run the show 100%. Come on Sainsbury's buy him out and get this club moving in the right direction.

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SARFENDMAN says...
1:35pm Thu 27 Sep 12

Another opting for the lifeboat on Ron's unsinkable ship.

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chris.taylo297@ntlworld says...
1:52pm Thu 27 Sep 12

the titanic was a great ship problem was the captian was a idiot

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