When Dan Evans was a young man,he had ambitions to make it as a top-flight rugby union player with Saracens. However, as is the way of the sport for ruffians played by gentlemen, a serious leg injury and dodgy shoulders put paid to that.
There are parallels with his 15 months running Speedy Hire. All the appendages haven’t quite been working properly and the company, as sports coaches like to say these days, is not presenting the best version of itself. Its latest warning took 25 per cent off the share price and the stock is trading at a 12- year low.
Speedy Hire hires out tools, plant and equipment mainly to the construction industry, although recently it has opened what it hopes will be
