Tomorrows email brought forward in light of club statement
Club Statement
Dear Katrien,
In light of tonight's club statement I have had to bring my daily email forward a few hours. Yes that's 2 emails from me in one day. May I also add that this statement has come at a very inconvenient time. It is during the late evening hours of the night that I am furiously swiping right on Tinder, winking at posh totty on the Inner Circle, and wincing at some of the winks I get on match.com (I'm not lying, I will show you when we finally get to meet).
Anyway, I'm speechless, actually no, that's not right, this is an email, I'm....what's the correct term here, what's the speechless equivalent when writing an email. I'll come back to that.
Are you okay? Is Roland okay? Have you been out on the lash? Has Roland just done a few lines of condensed milk, got charged and thought he'd tell it like it is (or how he sees it)?
That statement is probably one of the greatest pieces of literature in the history of not only Charlton Athletic, not only football, but of all the ancients texts and classics the world over. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Confucius, Marx, Luther King and Cliff Richard couldn't have penned something as magnanimous or as insightful as that if they all combined their mighty intellect twenty times over.....
Where did you come up with it? Who came up with it? Why did they come up with it? Who said it was a good idea to run with it?
The content????? Why are the club claiming Roland has met with the fans? Neither you nor Roland got back to me about my invitation for dinner at an award winning Thai restaurant. No one got back to me about 'Rolling with Roland', my film dedicated to our leader. When I offered to take Roland with us on the coach to Sheff Wed on Saturday, here we are, 3 days away, nothing, zero, zip, nilch, nadda. I was going to sit Roland next to the 31 year man. I was going to buy Roland a coffee from a Costa at a services. Have you ever bought a coffee from a motorway service station? Minimum price a small deposit on a house!!!! Newport Pagnell, Leicester Forest East, it doesn't matter. It's expensive. I had my legal team writing to the Eagles to ask to use the rights to 'Life in the fast lane' as Roland sits on the coach, the camera panning round his head. I was going to sell my father's mug and programme collection to finance this venture in case the British Film Council didn't see the potential.
Roland never met with me. You can't release a statement saying Roland has met with the fans. The trip for 5 lucky winners to go to Roland's half baked football factory hasn't even happened yet. You've jumped the gun.
Please issue a retraction immediately and go back to ignoring the protests, it's just 2% of our fan base, a few idiots, nothing to worry about.
I'm off to bed now. By the time I wake up I want to imagine this is all just a bad dream and we can get back to focusing on the important things like target 20k and more sofas.
Good night
Sent from my iPhone
That is one of your best ones yet!
I hope you will publish your efforts in a book when these clowns finally leave town.
Henry Irving should have a museum exhibition of them, alongside tonight's statement. And all the other inane regime statements.
I was invited to the Training Ground today along with other hospitality customers. We were accompanied by the Senior Management team and prior to the tour we had a chance to put some questions to KM. I don't think she was expecting it and seemed a bit rattled that about half of us were asking questions that she didn't like.
I had hoped that there would have been a Q & A session with the SMT at the end, but that was with JJ, Ademola & Alou Diarra.
As we were leaving I went up to her on my own and took the opportunity to ask her if she was going to respond to CARD's statement and whether they would be meeting the Trust. During that conversation she said to me that Roland had met with some fans. I thought nothing of that at the time, but for it to appear in the 'statement' tonight seems a bit of a coincidence.
That's interesting. Joking aside, who on earth could those fans have been? How would they have been got together, when he only visited for a few hours on a non matchday.
His cabby from London City airport to the Valley and back, but he quickly changed the subject and asked how the traffic has been.
Tomorrows email brought forward in light of club statement
Club Statement
Dear Katrien,
In light of tonight's club statement I have had to bring my daily email forward a few hours. Yes that's 2 emails from me in one day. May I also add that this statement has come at a very inconvenient time. It is during the late evening hours of the night that I am furiously swiping right on Tinder, winking at posh totty on the Inner Circle, and wincing at some of the winks I get on match.com (I'm not lying, I will show you when we finally get to meet).
Anyway, I'm speechless, actually no, that's not right, this is an email, I'm....what's the correct term here, what's the speechless equivalent when writing an email. I'll come back to that.
Are you okay? Is Roland okay? Have you been out on the lash? Has Roland just done a few lines of condensed milk, got charged and thought he'd tell it like it is (or how he sees it)?
That statement is probably one of the greatest pieces of literature in the history of not only Charlton Athletic, not only football, but of all the ancients texts and classics the world over. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Confucius, Marx, Luther King and Cliff Richard couldn't have penned something as magnanimous or as insightful as that if they all combined their mighty intellect twenty times over.....
Where did you come up with it? Who came up with it? Why did they come up with it? Who said it was a good idea to run with it?
The content????? Why are the club claiming Roland has met with the fans? Neither you nor Roland got back to me about my invitation for dinner at an award winning Thai restaurant. No one got back to me about 'Rolling with Roland', my film dedicated to our leader. When I offered to take Roland with us on the coach to Sheff Wed on Saturday, here we are, 3 days away, nothing, zero, zip, nilch, nadda. I was going to sit Roland next to the 31 year man. I was going to buy Roland a coffee from a Costa at a services. Have you ever bought a coffee from a motorway service station? Minimum price a small deposit on a house!!!! Newport Pagnell, Leicester Forest East, it doesn't matter. It's expensive. I had my legal team writing to the Eagles to ask to use the rights to 'Life in the fast lane' as Roland sits on the coach, the camera panning round his head. I was going to sell my father's mug and programme collection to finance this venture in case the British Film Council didn't see the potential.
Roland never met with me. You can't release a statement saying Roland has met with the fans. The trip for 5 lucky winners to go to Roland's half baked football factory hasn't even happened yet. You've jumped the gun.
Please issue a retraction immediately and go back to ignoring the protests, it's just 2% of our fan base, a few idiots, nothing to worry about.
I'm off to bed now. By the time I wake up I want to imagine this is all just a bad dream and we can get back to focusing on the important things like target 20k and more sofas.
Fill your boots folks. They want to hear from you at fans@cafc.co.uk
This puzzles me.
What's happened since that statement about the new email address went live? Or the statement yesterday with the empty platitudes? This is a complete U turn.
The truth be told I can only think he or she is watching our response and realised it's a lost cause. Combined with drink you get embarrassment.
It pains me to say, but if that is the case and Katrien has been reading and reacted this way... then I genuinely fear for mental well-being. I worry not only for her state of mind but her safety. She needs to be removed as soon as possible and, dare I say it, as an employer Roland needs to look after her for a while as his duty of care.
I despise the woman for what she's done but this U turn and the way that statement is worded does still make me concern for her well being as a fellow human being.
If you are reading this Katrien, resign. It WILL blow over if you go, most likely by the time you've sorted yourself out. Yes you'll need to rebuild your reputation but so have lots of people. No job is worth your mind, take it from me.
I totally agree about a duty of care. It must feel godawful being in Katriens shoes right now, and on a human level it is miserable and harmful what's happening. I am not interested in saying anybody 'deserves' it, even if true, but I hope somebody somewhere can realise that Katrien needs to be cared for in some appropriate way or other, and can offer that care.
Exactly Seth.
I dread to think what her days become, you could even argue that todays announcement of the new email address was purely to remove the strain on her own personal inbox.
If Katrien did post this I'm still blaming Roland. I may not see eye to eye with her but she deserves some care from Roland now. He's potentially destroying his own assistant now.
It's weird, but this statement is the first time I've genuinely wanted to reach out to her - not about football, but about life. She needs to realize this is just a job for her, she deserves better than to be Roland's personal human shield and she most likely needs recovery time.
Further to my earlier post - did the clubs new Comms manager have any input into this debacle today......my personal opinion is that she must have - so just weeks after her meeting supporters at a branch event, it appears that she has been brainwashed by KM that what she says goes. ......
Yes however I don't think it meant " what she says goes.... on the OS"
Media reports think the last par is part of the statement and not attempted clarification of what KM said in Dublin. Another PR own goal. You couldn't make it up.
I want to know the particulars? The Charlton comms 'team' at Ebbsfleet is Olly presumably, and likely as not Louis was sitting next to him as the button was pushed or whatever. Does that mean that we have Olly, updating on the Kent Cup, getting urgent instructions on his email or phone to upload a statement about to arrive in his inbox onto the club website. Is that how it works? Or was it Mel who was doing it as she was at the match?
Doesn't matter who it was that did it? Let's not play detective - the criminal is not the poster but the author.
Media reports think the last par is part of the statement and not attempted clarification of what KM said in Dublin. Another PR own goal. You couldn't make it up.
I've just asked a friend who runs her own successful PR company and she said this; "They are beyond parody. This is a Ricky Gervais sketch where in rehearsals he says 'Na, they will never believe this'.... It's a disgrace and no amount of PR spin can recover it."
Media reports think the last par is part of the statement and not attempted clarification of what KM said in Dublin. Another PR own goal. You couldn't make it up.
But.. But... If something backfires from something backfiring what way does it actually fire?!
I want to know the particulars? The Charlton comms 'team' at Ebbsfleet is Olly presumably, and likely as not Louis was sitting next to him as the button was pushed or whatever. Does that mean that we have Olly, updating on the Kent Cup, getting urgent instructions on his email or phone to upload a statement about to arrive in his inbox onto the club website. Is that how it works? Or was it Mel who was doing it as she was at the match?
Doesn't matter who it was that did it? Let's not play detective - the criminal is not the poster but the author.
When I wrote that I was still partially in 'it must be a spoof' land.
I dread to think what her days become, you could even argue that todays announcement of the new email address was purely to remove the strain on her own personal inbox.
If Katrien did post this I'm still blaming Roland. I may not see eye to eye with her but she deserves some care from Roland now. He's potentially destroying his own assistant now.
It's weird, but this statement is the first time I've genuinely wanted to reach out to her - not about football, but about life. She needs to realize this is just a job for her, she deserves better than to be Roland's personal human shield and she most likely needs recovery time.
Resign Katrien, please.
(Waits for the impending "hah gaaaayyyyy" gif!)
This moments of humanity make me really proud to be Charlton. To be honest as the evening has gone on I've started feeling sorry for whoever did this. They must be so lost and so angry.
My favourite part about the shit that goes on at this club is imagining the reactions these idiots have when stuff like this goes out. Katrien's fixed grin when the beach balls went on the pitch was incredible, and I love the idea that the ownership has constructed this car crash of an email, posted it triumphantly, then looked at the reactions a few minutes later and gone 'wait...shit'
*I think the difference is also because fans don't see themselves as customers and they go to the restaurants with their families every week and they go to the cinema but if they aren't satisfied with the product will they go and scream to the people in charge of it? No they don't
Erm yes they do actually... For example I ordered a Pizza Hut the other week, not a top star restaurant but it took over an hour to arrive with me having to phone twice asking where it is.
I didnt ask for it but a few days later I received an email apologising for the Service with a free £10 voucher
You poor bastard, fancy having to order ANOTHER meal from Pizza Hut.
Off to sleep, but with over 500 posts in less than 90 minutes the reaction has been swift and decisive. Expecting casualties tomorrow. Time to up the ante.
Louis Mendez @LouisMend 54s55 seconds ago Gravesend, South East Louis Mendez Retweeted James Windham It's not fake. I'm in the press box at a Charlton U21 game and watched it get published #cafc
That poor media relations lady, even she must realise what a numpty she's now working for....... and just after she's set up a new email address!
It seriously looked like a drunk fan has hacked the website, I'm gobsmacked.
I am truly and genuinely shocked and the belated attempt to rectify the 'customer' mistake at this stage? Even having been told its not fake I still can't quite believe that a 'business' which is what it purports to be, would allow this unfettered rant with its incredible PS to be published. Not only Katrien Meire's position but surely that also now of Mel Baroni must be untenable. This is melt down stuff!!!!!
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I dread to think what her days become, you could even argue that todays announcement of the new email address was purely to remove the strain on her own personal inbox.
If Katrien did post this I'm still blaming Roland. I may not see eye to eye with her but she deserves some care from Roland now. He's potentially destroying his own assistant now.
It's weird, but this statement is the first time I've genuinely wanted to reach out to her - not about football, but about life. She needs to realize this is just a job for her, she deserves better than to be Roland's personal human shield and she most likely needs recovery time.
Resign Katrien, please.
(Waits for the impending "hah gaaaayyyyy" gif!)
"They are beyond parody. This is a Ricky Gervais sketch where in rehearsals he says 'Na, they will never believe this'.... It's a disgrace and no amount of PR spin can recover it."
This is like the inception of balls ups.
Completely underplays how disrespectful the statement is.
Even having been told its not fake I still can't quite believe that a 'business' which is what it purports to be, would allow this unfettered rant with its incredible PS to be published. Not only Katrien Meire's position but surely that also now of Mel Baroni must be untenable. This is melt down stuff!!!!!