Ken Davy: Huddersfield Giants chairman resigns

Huddersfield Giants chairman Ken Davy has resigned from his position with immediate effect.

Davy has been chairman of the Super League club since 1996, with Ralph Rimmer now replacing him as executive chairman.

However, he will remain as owner with all the financial support that entails.

The 85-year-old said in a statement, external that it was time to move forward with “a new face, a new leadership and new energy”.

Davy’s time as chairman has coincided with the Super League era and after being given a spot for the 1998 season after the demise of Paris St-Germain, they have spent all but one year in the top flight.

They collected the League Leaders’ Shield in 2013 and have played in three Challenge Cup finals, albeit losing all three, in 2006, 2009 and 2022.

But in the last couple of years, things have been tougher with them finishing 10th last year while they are currently bottom of an expanded 14-team Super League, suffering 16 defeats in 18 matches.

However, Davy insists that the club is “taking massive and exciting strides” as a new era begins.

“It is now time for me to let our new leadership take the Huddersfield Giant’s forward positively into an exciting new era, in a similar way to that which Neil Hudgell has forged at Hull KR,” he said.

“I am very much looking forward to being a part of our new Giant journey, albeit from a different position.”