Robson to retire as Saints chief executive at end of season

Northampton Saints has today announced that Allan Robson will be retiring as the club’s chief executive at the end of the 2016/17 season.

“Allan has been an excellent chief executive,” said Saints chairman Tony Hewitt.

“As a club we have been reliant on generating our own income to grow our operations. Year after year we have grown our turnover and when you consider that his time as chief executive also included a significant recession and a relegation a decade ago this has been a significant achievement."

Robson has been at Franklin’s Gardens for nearly two decades, joining as commercial director in 2000 and then stepping up to chief executive in 2006. In that time he has led the most commercially successful organisation in the Premiership, one which recorded profits for 16 successive seasons.

THe Saints have already begun the recruitment process for a new chief executive.