Should a mini bus that Valley Gold has purchased for the Academy be used for the CEO and Head Coach to be ferried around in?
The only reason I can think a mini bus was there is that they live further up the A12, which we know is not the case. This bit about them not all going back to Sparrows Lane is BS, they could have had a drop off point on the M25 ( the QE bridge sounds a good place). If it was a VG minibus more reason to withdraw from it.
They do live further up the A12. I just wish they'd stay there.
Was out yesterday with some friends telling the 2 lads about the going on's at CAFC gave them the best laugh they had all day....what a bloody shambles and laughing stock we have become.
I can't imagine they did leave easily through the main entrance otherwise evidence would have been seen via video or photo. There was well over 1000 fans protesting when i left around 6pm, they wouldn't of cleared out that quick unless the police intervened
I can imagine KM and KF making a hurried, and hopefully in their minds, an anonymous exit via a side door onto a minibus, but in a laundry basket? Come off it, it's the stuff of fantasy,and wilful fantasy at that. People want to believe it because it lends further weight to the hope that KM is rattled, will crumble under the pressure and resign; it's what a lot of us want, but it is wishful thinking at this point and no more.
The same is true of the Varney's emails and a potential buyer in KAH Sports Ltd which we have since discovered was not the case. Varney must take some responsibility here, his opening gambit in his introductory email was creatively ambiguous to say the least and it was not unreasonable to assume that KAH Sports Ltd were the potential investors and RD might be willing to sell.They weren't and he wasn't, no matter how much we wanted it to be the case.
No matter how much we dislike it, at the present time, this is what is:
RD owns the club and has no intention of selling
KM is his CEO and has no intention of quitting
KF is the manager and fuck knows what his intentions might be
We have an understrength squad in the relegation zone
So what to do?
Keep protesting, we cannot allow the momentum to tail off; boycott catering etc, a blessing in disguise; The Trust to keep grinding away at KM's indifference; support the team; in effect, more of the same.
I said some time ago that in an age of entitlement and importunateness, we need patience by the lorry-load.There is no boil-in- the- bag solution to this mess.It will take time.
Of course the basket stuff was made up. It is called a joke. But Miere or Fraeye were sufficiently vexed by it it seems to get there staff to tweet denials on their Saturday evening off. So the joke will continue. Miere hid in the dirty kit.
I never assumed the buyer was KEH, in fact I said on here it was most likely not them. Varney and VOTV never said it was them either.
Doesn't mean there wasn't a real buyer waiting.
The laundry basket is untrue but still funny as a chant.
I didn't say you, VOTV or Varney assumed that KEH was the buyer. What I did say was that Varney was creatively ambiguous in his initial email and it was understandable why it could be construed that KAH were the potential investors.
Neither did I say that there wasn't a real buyer waiting, just that it wasn't KAH.
I never assumed the buyer was KEH, in fact I said on here it was most likely not them. Varney and VOTV never said it was them either.
Doesn't mean there wasn't a real buyer waiting.
The laundry basket is untrue but still funny as a chant.
I didn't say you, VOTV or Varney assumed that KEH was the buyer. What I did say was that Varney was creatively ambiguous in his initial email and it was understandable why it could be construed that KAH were the potential investors.
Neither did I say that there wasn't a real buyer waiting, just that it wasn't KAH.
I think the point of that is to show that Varney was and is a credible person - contrary to the advice they receive from Richard Murray.
As has been pointed out on other threads, there's a video of KF signing autographs outside the ground after the game, not appearing in any rush to dive into a laundry basket.
Why our fans were asking for his autograph, I'll never understand.
I'm hoping one of them is doing the "get Karel to unwittingly sign a resignation letter" trick.
Perhaps KM and KF travelled back in the minibus alone so KM can tell him he has lost his job and packup over the weekend, without anyone except the driver being around. You can but hope, if so, let us hope RD and KM travel somewhere in a minibus
Seems to be conflicting accounts of what happened post match with some saying it was an orderly retreat by Fraeye and the fragrant Ms Meire, others that they completed an evacuation via the kit van more befitting the last days of a tin-pot dictatorship. Clubs employees have gone onto social media to call the BBC reporter who first published the claim a "liar" (rather apt given Meire's reputation) so does anyone actually know what did happen? Suspect the laundry basket will feature in future protests regardless ...
The laundry basket story is true in the way poetry is true. Sometimes poetry provides a more meaningful insight into life than dry explanations, and poetry is a very enduring art form. This year is the 400'th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, and his work is remembered and revered and respected even to this day.
The laundry basket is all kinds of metaphors for the state of our club, the characters involved, and indeed the particularities of yesterdays abject showing at Colchester United. Indeed the seed of the laundry basket story was planted not even by one of our own, but an Essex and Colchester BBC man, and that seed has borne fruit.
Poetically truthful fruit.
The next protest should definitely include a large laundry basket passed over the heads of the crowd, with images of Katrien, Karel, Roland and Richard that appear when the lid is opened. even more than one laundry basket, it will make good visuals, and certainly attract the attention of the media, and stick in the minds of many.
I suspect Fraeye jumped in the laundry basket after the game - there are of course a couple of holes in the base for his legs & he ran, Scooby Doo style round the corridors - stopping still if anyone came near & then very slowly raising his head with basket lid style hat to peep around before scuttling on again.
The next protest should definitely include a large laundry basket passed over the heads of the crowd, with images of Katrien, Karel, Roland and Richard that appear when the lid is opened. even more than one laundry basket, it will make good visuals, and certainly attract the attention of the media, and stick in the minds of many.
Brilliant idea.
And I agree, it's a fantastic metaphor for our ownership.
The next protest should definitely include a large laundry basket passed over the heads of the crowd, with images of Katrien, Karel, Roland and Richard that appear when the lid is opened. even more than one laundry basket, it will make good visuals, and certainly attract the attention of the media, and stick in the minds of many.
Brilliant idea.
And I agree, it's a fantastic metaphor for our ownership.
One big basket with rolly polly holding strings of Pinocchio, dick head Murray and the clown.
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People want to believe it because it lends further weight to the hope that KM is rattled, will crumble under the pressure and resign; it's what a lot of us want, but it is wishful thinking at this point and no more.
The same is true of the Varney's emails and a potential buyer in KAH Sports Ltd which we have since discovered was not the case. Varney must take some responsibility here, his opening gambit in his introductory email was creatively ambiguous to say the least and it was not unreasonable to assume that KAH Sports Ltd were the potential investors and RD might be willing to sell.They weren't and he wasn't, no matter how much we wanted it to be the case.
No matter how much we dislike it, at the present time, this is what is:
RD owns the club and has no intention of selling
KM is his CEO and has no intention of quitting
KF is the manager and fuck knows what his intentions might be
We have an understrength squad in the relegation zone
So what to do?
Keep protesting, we cannot allow the momentum to tail off; boycott catering etc, a blessing in disguise; The Trust to keep grinding away at KM's indifference; support the team; in effect, more of the same.
I said some time ago that in an age of entitlement and importunateness, we need patience by the lorry-load.There is no boil-in- the- bag solution to this mess.It will take time.
"back with the laundry! You traveled back with the laundry backkkk withhhhh the laundry" with a follow up of
"lie in a minute! She's gonna lie in a minute"
Doesn't mean there wasn't a real buyer waiting.
The laundry basket is untrue but still funny as a chant.
Neither did I say that there wasn't a real buyer waiting, just that it wasn't KAH.
The laundry basket is all kinds of metaphors for the state of our club, the characters involved, and indeed the particularities of yesterdays abject showing at Colchester United. Indeed the seed of the laundry basket story was planted not even by one of our own, but an Essex and Colchester BBC man, and that seed has borne fruit.
Poetically truthful fruit.
The next protest should definitely include a large laundry basket passed over the heads of the crowd, with images of Katrien, Karel, Roland and Richard that appear when the lid is opened. even more than one laundry basket, it will make good visuals, and certainly attract the attention of the media, and stick in the minds of many.
And I agree, it's a fantastic metaphor for our ownership.