KEN Davy has resigned after 30 years as Huddersfield chairman.
The 84-year-old – who turns 85 later this month – will continue to fund the club but Giants director for change Ralph Rimmer will take over as chair.
“It has been my privilege to chair the Huddersfield Giants since January 1996 and I am proud that our achievements have included winning the league leaders shield for the first time in 81 years along with three Challenge Cup final appearances,” Davy wrote on the club’s website.
“My ownership and financial support for the Giants continues but if we are to fully maximise the investments we are making and the opportunities ahead, we need to move forward with a new face, a new leadership and a new energy.
“Those of us inside the club have witnessed at first hand the dynamism of our director for change, Ralph Rimmer.
“And I am delighted to announce that Ralph has accepted my invitation to take the helm as executive chairman of the Huddersfield Giants, again with effect immediately.
“The Giants are making multimillion pound investments as part of our commitment to Super League, coupled with our determination to put our current unsatisfactory performance behind us.
“This announcement and the others which will soon follow are clear statements of our intent.
For more than 30 years, encouraged by my beloved wife Jennifer (who we lost so suddenly in 2017), I have done everything I can for this great club and the game of rugby league.
“Including, at the request of my fellow Super League chairmen, spending two years as executive chairman of Super League when, against the odds, I successfully negotiated the reunification of Super League and the RFL.
“It is now time for me to let our new leadership take the Huddersfield Giants forward positively into an exciting new era, in a similar way to that which Neil Hudgell has forged at HKR.
“I am very much looking forward to being a part of our new Giant journey, albeit from a different position.”
Huddersfield are currently last in Super League; they have not won since the arrival of new coach Jim Lenihan.
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