SDS Board

Board Members

Supporters Direct Scotland is governed by a Board which is democratically elected from within its membership:

Up to 8 directors are elected by and from the Society’s members
Up to 3 directors are elected by and from the Society’s associates
1 director is nominated by the Association of Tartan Army Clubs (ATAC)

In addition, the Board may co-opt up to three external independent directors who need not be members, and are selected for their particular skills and/or experience.

Morag McHaffie (Chair)

Elected to SD Scotland board until July 2028

Morag is a season ticket holder at Firhill and attends all away Thistle matches, unless Scotland happens to be playing in some obscure part of the world!

Morag is secretary and travel contact to the North-West Supporters’ branch.

Over the past 25 years she has also held the post of secretary to the old Supporters Association, and its successor, the Supporters’ Federation; Save the Jags and of the embryonic Jags Trust during its first 6 years, returning in 2009 as a member of the JT Board.

Morag is presently Chairperson and selected from the Trust Board as the fans representative to the Board of PTFC Ltd. The Jags Trust is an equal largest shareholder with 1 million shares.

A qualified teacher (1980), Morag never actually held chalk but worked in consumer protection, emergencies planning, social work home care and is now an Inspector for the Care Inspectorate working in the inspection and regulation of care for various sectors of the community.

Andrew Pyke

Elected to SD Scotland board until July 2027

Andrew is a life-long Dundee FC fan, he and his son Lewis are season ticket holders in the Bobby Cox stand. He is the secretary on the Dee4Life board & is a member of the Glasgow Dees.

He has had a career in insight & marketing, including Diageo, Scottish & Newcastle, Smithkiline Beecham, Food Standards Scotland and the Chamber of Commerce. He was insight manager at the Scottish Football Association from 2016 to 2021. He agrees with the Jock Stein phrase ‘football is nothing without fans’ and believes that football clubs belong to their communities.

Andrew lives in southside Glasgow and is a keen park runner. He is also involved with FoodTrain, supporting older people to live well.

Drew Main

Elected to SD Scotland board until July 2027

Drew has been on the Board of the Pars Supporters Trust for a number of years. He and his colleagues played a key part in rescuing DAFC from administration in 2013. Drew was elected as Chair of the Pars Supporters Trust in 2017 and as such, is the supporter’s representative on the Board of Dunfermline Athletic.

He is a season ticket holder at East End Park and has followed the Pars home and away for over 30 years.

Drew works as a freelance mechanical design engineer specialising in product design. His clients include multi-national companies such as Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and NCR.

Euan Macfarlane

Elected to SD Scotland board until July 2028

Euan is a member of the board of Club 1872 which has overseen over £3 million in investment to Rangers Football Club as well as growing Club 1872’s shareholding.

Euan also has 20 years business experience working in the IT industry holding roles as a director, senior manager and global process engineering. He currently heads up global capacity planning and leads the strategy for modernising workforce planning through automation and AI adoption.

Euan also invests much of his personal time supporting charity work for CHAS (Children’s Hospices across Scotland) as well as supporting organisations such as the Rangers Charity Foundation.

Louise Strutt

Elected to SD Scotland board until July 2029

Details to follow…

Graeme Baxter

Appointed to SD Scotland board to represent the Association of Tartan Army Clubs

Graeme is a Cost Accountant for an Oil & Gas firm based in Dunfermline, and joined the board in February 2018.

Graeme represents the Association of Tartan Army Clubs, where he hold the role of Vice Chair. ATAC work closely with the Scottish FA and Scotland Supporters Club on a number of matters impacting supporters of the National Team, particularly surrounding safety, security and ticketing issues for away travel. Graeme is also involved in running his local supporters club, the Dunfermline Tartan Army. As well as following Scotland, Graeme is a long time season ticket holder at Raith Rovers and recently joined the board of the Raith Supporters Trust.

Ian Baird

Co-opted to the SD Scotland board in July 2024

Details to follow…