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What is our Managerial situation? **Andy Hughes Has His Say - Page 3**
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Crawley on twitter replied to someone as below on Riga.
@DiscoEnergy 1h
@RichCawleySLP you heard anything about Rigas contract?
Richard Cawley @RichCawleySLP 34m
@DiscoEnergy Expectation is that he won't be back.
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How does Cawley know that?roseandcrown said:Crawley on twitter replied to someone as below on Riga.
@DiscoEnergy 1h
@RichCawleySLP you heard anything about Rigas contract?
Richard Cawley @RichCawleySLP 34m
@DiscoEnergy Expectation is that he won't be back.
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The plot thickens.1
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Interested in the views of others in the PR communications business, here is a situation where there is no news, but your customer base is waiting expectantly for something. Do you just keep quiet, as the owners are doing, until there is something to say or do you give an update which maybe just saying thsi is the process and we hope to have an answer by x date. Of course if you then don't hit x date there is another pr exercise that needs to be undertaken. I'm probably of the view of the secondary option0
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We can only hope there is a plot3
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felix_31 said:
How does Cawley know that?roseandcrown said:Crawley on twitter replied to someone as below on Riga.
@DiscoEnergy 1h
@RichCawleySLP you heard anything about Rigas contract?
Richard Cawley @RichCawleySLP 34m
@DiscoEnergy Expectation is that he won't be back.
Cawley has been the "go to" local journalist for CAFC for sometime and so has good connections to the Club.
Doesn't make what he says correct (and he has been wrong, or at least what he has claimed to be happening hasn't in the past) but does have good sources.
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Colour me disappointedroseandcrown said:Crawley on twitter replied to someone as below on Riga.
@DiscoEnergy 1h
@RichCawleySLP you heard anything about Rigas contract?
Richard Cawley @RichCawleySLP 34m
@DiscoEnergy Expectation is that he won't be back.1 -
Roly you better have a decent alternative up your sleeve or I may have to enter panic mode earlier than expected. This I usually reserve for August. JR as manager is pretty much the only area us lifers agree on. Sort it out Roly!2
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If Riga does not come back it will only add to my concerns as he has made it clear that he would be happy to. My great concern is that we will be in the hands of RD's football experts who didn't fill me with confidence last season. Developments in the next week or so will be both interesting and crucial IMO.0
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http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=16571
Pretty clear, if it wasn't already, that Duchatelet isn't remotely bothered about scoring popularity points, otherwise he'd have gone for the easy win and signed up Riga a couple of weeks ago.
He will therefore also not be remotely concerned that my opinion of him is completely negative.
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@RichCawleySLP: Exclusive:Andy Hughes: Why haven't #cafc appointed Jose Riga? http://t.co/cj95nMnwbt1
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Andy Hughes has told Charlton: Pull out all the stops to keep Jose Riga.
There is uncertainty over who will be in charge of the South Londoners next season as the head coach only arrived on a short-term deal.
And even though Riga did his job - keeping the Addicks in the Championship - he has still not been confirmed as taking the helm in the future.
Hughes has warned that Charlton run the risk of losing key players - and also failing to attract them - if they do not move quickly in filling the role.
He said: “Charlton have still not named a manager and they need to get that nailed down - they are going to miss out on players and existing players. For me Jose Riga is the number one choice. The players like him, the staff like him and he likes the club and area - and he has got a feel for Championship football now, he knows what it takes.
The players and staff want him to stay. They need to do what it takes to keep him here. It is vitally important that Roland Duchatelet employs someone this week. They are going to miss recruitment. Other clubs are moving on players. They are missing out. I don't understand the time taken, why is it so long?
They need to appoint Jose Riga as quick as they can. I don't understand why they are even contemplating bringing another coach in. Jose Riga came in when the club was in a tough position and he managed the situation well."9 -
careful Hughesy, I'm sure you'll be labelled a bed-wetting panic merchant....16
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Mr Hughes you may act the clown but you speak sense - thank you2
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Who does Hughes play for ?0
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Surely it's not because RD still believes his SL cast offs and second tier european players are good enough for the championship and doesn't want Riga cos he disagrees?0
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My worry is that Riga is his own man and whilst that was fine when we were desperate, his approach may not be compatible with the network plan. Note his preference for existing players over network players when he managed us. Note also the frustration the network had with Chrissy over not rating/picking the players they had brought in. I have said all along - the first sign of things getting better will be the signing of Riga. I have never thought this would be a certainty though for the potential reasons above. We all know RD has a vision - we have to pray that it isn't boll***s.3
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I'll trust the word of a player from within the camp and whose mates will be thinking the same. Can we start judging now? We can't "wait until the end of June" as many on here keep suggesting. We need to act now.
“Charlton have still not named a manager and they need to get that nailed down - they are going to miss out on players and existing players....They are going to miss recruitment. Other clubs are moving on players. They are missing out."6 -
Duchatelet is not stupid. He knows Riga and Jose was the person that he turned to when Powell left. He will know Riga is a good candidate and will have no doubt by now that Jose would be prepared to take the job. Riga has stated that. I'm sure things were already being put in place before Riga's arrival to sound out alternatives to Chris and perhaps it is those candidates that RD is talking with before making his decision.
Yes we want a decision soon for the reasons Hughes has stated but more importantly we want the right decision.
Next week would be fine by me. If it's not Riga then it's because RD thinks the alternative is better. I don't believe he has invested in Charlton to see us fail. Let's wait and see what happens. Even if we have never heard of him let's not go into meltdown. How many of us had heard of Jose ?
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Why would not having a manager be an issue to signing players. There are many posters on here, far more qualified than Hughes, who have long since put my mind at rest that having a manager is irrelevant to us as they will not be signing the players anyway and Man Utd bid on a player when they did not have a manager and we are comparable to them!4
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Not much we can do - everybody is on holiday!0
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From the renowned and reliable source DiscoEnergy (who is very welcome at parties).roseandcrown said:Crawley on twitter replied to someone as below on Riga.
@DiscoEnergy 1h
@RichCawleySLP you heard anything about Rigas contract?
Richard Cawley @RichCawleySLP 34m
@DiscoEnergy Expectation is that he won't be back.0 -
The source is Richard Cawley not DiscoEnergyvff said:
From the renowned and reliable source DiscoEnergy (who is very welcome at parties).roseandcrown said:Crawley on twitter replied to someone as below on Riga.
@DiscoEnergy 1h
@RichCawleySLP you heard anything about Rigas contract?
Richard Cawley @RichCawleySLP 34m
@DiscoEnergy Expectation is that he won't be back.
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Duchatalet has a masterplan, he just can't find a
mpuppet willing to implement it for him...
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Riga is going up north to manage Leeds after Hughesy told him how great it was up there.18
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What do you class as failing? Cos I reckon, from what I've seen so far, that Charlton scraping to survival in the Championship with a team of Network players would be deemed as reasonably successful by Duchatelet - he would, after all, not be incurring any significant extra costs as he's already paying these players' wages elsewhere anyway. I think most supporters would class that as a failure - certainly I can't imagine that any Charlton fan would class that as a success.ShootersHillGuru said:
Next week would be fine by me. If it's not Riga then it's because RD thinks the alternative is better. I don't believe he has invested in Charlton to see us fail. Let's wait and see what happens. Even if we have never heard of him let's not go into meltdown. How many of us had heard of Jose ?1 -
On the budget we had it was a success we stayed up last season .MrLargo said:
What do you class as failing? Cos I reckon, from what I've seen so far, that Charlton scraping to survival in the Championship with a team of Network players would be deemed as reasonably successful by Duchatelet - he would, after all, not be incurring any significant extra costs as he's already paying these players' wages elsewhere anyway. I think most supporters would class that as a failure - certainly I can't imagine that any Charlton fan would class that as a success.ShootersHillGuru said:
Next week would be fine by me. If it's not Riga then it's because RD thinks the alternative is better. I don't believe he has invested in Charlton to see us fail. Let's wait and see what happens. Even if we have never heard of him let's not go into meltdown. How many of us had heard of Jose ?0 -
With StephensCallumcafc said:Riga is going up north to manage Leeds after Hughesy told him how great it was up there.
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I'm not worried yet but I'd like a new manager in by next week.JessieAddick said:Andy Hughes' said exactly what many of us have been saying for some time. I wish I could just say 'let's wait and see' but I can't. The current situation looks really worrying.
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