Wonder if Go ahead wanted NF to move to the north east to oversee go north east but he wanted to stay over there so they went for option 2 of have an area director reporting directly to him, seems a bit strange how 2 of the newest members of go ahead are more directly linked with reporting directly to go ahead and the oldest and dont forget founder member of go ahead is now arms length reporting to NF at Go north west, think there is more to this behind the scenes and this is happening to not only cut costs but to satisfy the stakeholders that a change is underway and they are demanding change, time to paint all the buses all the same colour, scrap branding and put all efforts into building a network that wont need changed or re painted in 6 months, passengers just want a comfortable bus that turns up when it is supposed to