The senior management talk about learning from mistakes and working hard to get the club back on track but there's no evidence of this. In fact everything they do deepens the rift between supporters and the club and increases the level of opposition.
The netting, brainless body searches of OAPs and one-sided heavy handed stewarding yesterday tell us that they have learnt jack and are not working to get us back to any level of normality. They either don't want to or don't know how to.
Now I won't be renewing my season ticket but I will be going to a number of away matches and going to the occasional home match, particularly where protest events are planned. And I'll be moving from the Upper West to parts of The Valley where I can get more involved.
I suspect there are many like me that won't be renewing but want to support the protests. The matches remain our best opportunity for visible protest.
The challenge for CARD and something for many of us to ponder is how we adapt our tactics for the next phase. Yesterday convinced me that we can keep the protests going despite the falling attendances and that Charlton Athletic is a cause worth fighting for.
It is worth thinking about for Charlton season ticket holders that buying a game by game ticket is a lot easier with the cinema style booking on the website. There will be lots of space and unless very attached to your particular seat, holding off the season ticket purchase to make your point to Duchatelet is worth considering. If you want to pick your games, it seems a lot easier, pick your seat and print off your ticket, no messing around with waiting for tickets to be posted or picked up.
I am not renewing either (unless Duchatelet sells up). Looking forward to attending a few away games & a few designated protest home games. Lots of opportunities to embarrass and shame Duchatelet before the season starts. Its just matter of time, & if not when before Duchatelet sells up.
Whoever was the enemy of who yesterday, it certainly wasn't Charlton Supporters/Hooligans verses Burnley Supporters/Hooligans.
The mood music throughout my lifetime has nearly always been about rival sets of hooligan fans going at each other, and there has been some justification in that.
However what the establishment and media have to be dragged kicking and screaming towards, is the notion that no, not all football fans are hyped for trouble. It is a minority, a tiny minority at that, if the inquest into Hillsborough said anything it is not to assume fans are troublemakers.
So yesterday we still had those old assumptions writ large. We, you and me and everybody we see around us at matches, are seen as the enemy, we are the enemy in the eyes of the idiots that are supposed to keep us safe and happy, and then to tell the truth about us.
'Expect trouble' those security people are told, 'Trust no one', 'You are the goodies, they are the baddies'.
It is to their overwhelming credit that the last people Charlton supporters wanted to have a go at, and the last people the Burnley supporters wanted to have a go at, was each-other. Thousands of fans of both sides completely get that in an instant.
However when managing situations it is not thousands of people who make the call is it? There are pinch point individuals like match commanders, private security bosses, and people at the club like Tony Keohane. football authority observers and advisors, if those people are not clear sighted or clear headed we have had it.
My contention is that those individuals, due to either ignorance, prejudice, personal agenda's or money considerations often can't see the wood from the trees. For many of those individuals common sense is uncommon sense. I think there are exceptions, people who are prepared to make the effort to understand and deal with things well, as all involved with CARD have done every step of the way, some regime representatives have not got the credit they probably deserve to keep things as well managed as they can in these circumstances.
But
Police and security on riot setting, netting, Am fucking nesty bins, and search dogs all scream of ignorance and overkill.
Yes regime, you will continue to have to deal with problems we will continue to cause, and your reaction certainly yesterday has been disproportionate. Do you lot on the regime really want this to continue? The options you are choosing are making things worse, are you so stupid you can't see that?
Good post. The main mass of supporters only turned their attention away from facing the directors box when the police line reformed in front of the goal, first to face the emptying north stand and then to face the crowd on the pitch. When the crowd noticed the police line and turned to face them, the the crowd attention was drawn to the sofa, which got partially obliterated. The police & stewards tried to control events but completely lost the plot on a number of occassions as events overrun them. The club yet again failing to see the wood for the trees & missing the point entirely.
It is to Charlton & Burnley supporters credit that the show of unity between Burnley celebration & Charlton despair / anger turned ok. No thanks to the blue bibbed stewards, police or the club in general.
The comments are well made and should demonstrate to the regime that they are " fighting" dedicated, able, decent people. Yes it's wrong and shows the mind set of the club that 60/70 years old are searched going into the ground. The actions of the fans, protests outside and inside the ground are because the situation is that "we" are now angry. RD and KM etc are not competent to run the club. Unfortunately the situation has reached total confrontation. KM is of limited ability but has an excess of arragance. RD also demonstrates he has no concern for Charlton. If he had any intention of putting things right KM would have been moved on before now. Jose Riga has gone as far as he dare by saying he is leaving because of the " structure of the club". If RD believes that he carries on as he is and hopes next season the club are top half of League 1, then he is MAD.
I agree with this, was planning on doing exactly this, moving around and finding our spot for season ticket renewal once the senile one moves on.
Have been slightly knocked about today by the ex missus saying that, in the absence of me buying Charlton season tickets, she's going to take the boy to West Ham when she can next season.
I agree with this, was planning on doing exactly this, moving around and finding our spot for season ticket renewal once the senile one moves on.
Have been slightly knocked about today by the ex missus saying that, in the absence of me buying Charlton season tickets, she's going to take the boy to West Ham when she can next season.
We will see about that.
Fuck that Neil, sign over the bloody house instead.....
Has Katrien lost weight? I can't imagine all the grief she is getting is doing her health any favours. She should jack it in for her own well-being if nothing else. It's only a job. Why live this miserable life as Roland's flak-magnet? Have some self respect!
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Has Katrien lost weight? I can't imagine all the grief she is getting is doing her health any favours. She should jack it in for her own well-being if nothing else. It's only a job. Why live this miserable life as Roland's flak-magnet? Have some self respect!
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Sounds like he'd get on well with SD's Dad.
Not to brag, but my dad has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. That's not to say he doesn't spout random stream of consciousness nonsense, it's just very educated nonsense .
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Sounds like he'd get on well with SD's Dad.
Not to brag, but my dad has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. That's not to say he doesn't spout random stream of consciousness nonsense, it's just very educated nonsense .
Nonsense = nonsense. A few years in Uni doesn't equal intelligence, sorry, and verbal diarrhea is not eloquence. Keep it simple is a good rule of thumb.
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Sounds like he'd get on well with SD's Dad.
Not to brag, but my dad has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. That's not to say he doesn't spout random stream of consciousness nonsense, it's just very educated nonsense .
Nonsense = nonsense. A few years in Uni doesn't equal intelligence, sorry, and verbal diarrhea is not eloquence. Keep it simple is a good rule of thumb.
No, but a few years in Uni does equal an education.
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Sounds like he'd get on well with SD's Dad.
Not to brag, but my dad has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. That's not to say he doesn't spout random stream of consciousness nonsense, it's just very educated nonsense .
Nonsense = nonsense. A few years in Uni doesn't equal intelligence, sorry, and verbal diarrhea is not eloquence. Keep it simple is a good rule of thumb.
No, but a few years in Uni does equal an education.
Shook Motta's hand and wished him well and good luck in the future after the game in the car park. Seemed a very nice man being friendly with everyone as he wanted to just get to his car and out.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if he enjoyed the protests. Shame he won't be with us next season as he's a good player.
Looking at who I saw come out yesterday, I can't name one who I genuinely believe will be around next season.
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Sounds like he'd get on well with SD's Dad.
Not to brag, but my dad has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. That's not to say he doesn't spout random stream of consciousness nonsense, it's just very educated nonsense .
Nonsense = nonsense. A few years in Uni doesn't equal intelligence, sorry, and verbal diarrhea is not eloquence. Keep it simple is a good rule of thumb.
No, but a few years in Uni does equal an education.
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Sounds like he'd get on well with SD's Dad.
Not to brag, but my dad has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. That's not to say he doesn't spout random stream of consciousness nonsense, it's just very educated nonsense .
Nonsense = nonsense. A few years in Uni doesn't equal intelligence, sorry, and verbal diarrhea is not eloquence. Keep it simple is a good rule of thumb.
No, but a few years in Uni does equal an education.
Does it?
Depends what you did there I guess.
Really!! Touched a raw spot has it. :-)
Not really.
It's just the inference seemed to be that if you went to university you had "an education " and if you didn't you didn't.
Personally I don't think it's that simple. But maybe hat wasn't what was meant.
I have been reflecting on the match on Saturday and believe it is the most profoundly depressing 90 minutes I have ever spent at a Football match. Even when we received leaflets that we were losing The Valley I don’t believe I felt like I do now as I truly don’t see any hope. The Football match against Burnley was totally irrelevant nobody was taking much interest, Burnley fans aside, it was all about the protest and getting rid of the regime meaning that the situation with the club is the only issue what happens on the pitch doesn’t matter anymore.
In response the club did several things that was both disproportionate and ill thought out. The first was to place a 20ft net in front of the North Stand which was there to prevent fans going onto the pitch, well if that was the fear why not at the away end? Doesn’t make any logical sense. There has been a lot of discussion about safety and I agree to some extent that it could have potentially caused problems, luckily it didn’t but somehow I found it insulting that I as a lifelong supporter had to be penned in because I might try and get on the pitch? The second was the presence of a load of bully boy stewards whose default setting was aggression, did it really take four/five of them to tackle the fan on the pitch? The aggressive search on the way in? the illogical and random confiscation of plastic bottles of drink? Whats to stop someone buying inside the ground and lobbing that? Just plain stupid!!
Why is this depressing? Because almost universally at other clubs we are admired for our history and the way fans fought back to get the club back to the Valley and the general friendly atmosphere, yet here we were being treated like the very worst of all Football fans by a regime who’s only answer to the problems besetting the club is the blame those who support it, there is 0% self-awareness on the part of either Duchatelet or Meire they are like the lunatic in the asylum who thinks it’s the rest of the world that’s mad. Moreover what comes next? Riga has gone so we get another no mark from The Network, probably most of the team on Saturday will be gone by end of June and we will be left with the dross plus whatever unknown’s they can dredge up from the other clubs Duchatelet owns.
Normally I am already looking forward to the next season but not now, I have yet to make my mind up whether to renew my season ticket or not, I do not want to support this regime in any way and I don’t want to watch another season of crap like we have just endured, alternatively I also don’t want the club I have been watching for 55 years go into a terminal decline due to underfunding it is a dilemma. I don’t believe Duchatelet will funnel funds into the right place i.e. on the field, employing a good British Manager and he certainly won’t get rid of his “Fly on the wall” KM so the situation becomes worse again. I also don’t believe he will sell up any time this is now a battle of wills between us the fans and him the owner and all indications are he is not a man who likes to lose.
I want to congratulate CARD who have been fantastic in this whole situation and applaud their efforts to try and bring the plight of the club to public attention they deserve our thanks and credit but as it is i find it all deeply depressing. Hope somebody is able to change that for us.
We played quickly in the first half: bright and probing. Good moves - until Lookman misplaced the simplest of passes, and Harriott muffed the one-on-one with the keeper.
Our strikers are comical; who needs Nogoals? Vetokele is free, ball at feet - and it skids under his boot. He did the same at The Valley two years ago against Millwall, and it was comical again today.
I like Simon Church: he sprints at the defender, makes a block. It has taken our 'strikers' two seasons to understand. They are hopeless and funny, sauntering without intent. Calamity Harriott does a double step-ever, then trips over himself.
Lookman is a child, stumbling over a beach-ball, a toddler crashing in to the plastic furniture in a the back garden of a pebble-dashed semi in Strood. It has taken has four years for our keeper to release the ball: quickly, kick low and accurate, set the strikers free. Elliot did it accurately - it helps.
After the debacle at Bolton a few weeks ago, Jackson said: "It's all our fault." He said: We have failed you.
He is damn right.
I think you're being incredible harsh. To say Harriott fluffed his lines is ridiculous, Heaton made an absolutely brilliant save. Lookman at times lacks a final product/decision making but he's 18 and he should have won a penalty early on. I agree that Igor struggled, but to compare him, or any of them, to Churchy...
Gonna hope the drink is speaking a bit on this one.
@SDAddick. Meet Mr. @Viewfinder. You'll get him after a while. He's a pain in the arse with verbal diarrhea, thinks he can write but actually writes bollox to get a reaction.
Sounds like he'd get on well with SD's Dad.
Not to brag, but my dad has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. That's not to say he doesn't spout random stream of consciousness nonsense, it's just very educated nonsense .
Nonsense = nonsense. A few years in Uni doesn't equal intelligence, sorry, and verbal diarrhea is not eloquence. Keep it simple is a good rule of thumb.
No, but a few years in Uni does equal an education a huge debt.
In the 2nd half there were 5 mins of delay plus 2 goals and 6 substitutions, yet only 1 minute of added time was played, this is according to the "official" Press Association text commentary
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I am not renewing either (unless Duchatelet sells up). Looking forward to attending a few away games & a few designated protest home games. Lots of opportunities to embarrass and shame Duchatelet before the season starts. Its just matter of time, & if not when before Duchatelet sells up.
It is to Charlton & Burnley supporters credit that the show of unity between Burnley celebration & Charlton despair / anger turned ok. No thanks to the blue bibbed stewards, police or the club in general.
Yes it's wrong and shows the mind set of the club that 60/70 years old are searched going into the ground.
The actions of the fans, protests outside and inside the ground are because the situation is that "we" are now angry.
RD and KM etc are not competent to run the club.
Unfortunately the situation has reached total confrontation. KM is of limited ability but has an excess of arragance. RD also demonstrates he has no concern for Charlton. If he had any intention of putting things right KM would have been moved on before now.
Jose Riga has gone as far as he dare by saying he is leaving because of the " structure of the club".
If RD believes that he carries on as he is and hopes next season the club are top half of League 1, then he is MAD.
Have been slightly knocked about today by the ex missus saying that, in the absence of me buying Charlton season tickets, she's going to take the boy to West Ham when she can next season.
We will see about that.
Depends what you did there I guess.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if he enjoyed the protests. Shame he won't be with us next season as he's a good player.
Looking at who I saw come out yesterday, I can't name one who I genuinely believe will be around next season.
It's just the inference seemed to be that if you went to university you had "an education " and if you didn't you didn't.
Personally I don't think it's that simple. But maybe hat wasn't what was meant.
In response the club did several things that was both disproportionate and ill thought out. The first was to place a 20ft net in front of the North Stand which was there to prevent fans going onto the pitch, well if that was the fear why not at the away end? Doesn’t make any logical sense. There has been a lot of discussion about safety and I agree to some extent that it could have potentially caused problems, luckily it didn’t but somehow I found it insulting that I as a lifelong supporter had to be penned in because I might try and get on the pitch? The second was the presence of a load of bully boy stewards whose default setting was aggression, did it really take four/five of them to tackle the fan on the pitch? The aggressive search on the way in? the illogical and random confiscation of plastic bottles of drink? Whats to stop someone buying inside the ground and lobbing that? Just plain stupid!!
Why is this depressing? Because almost universally at other clubs we are admired for our history and the way fans fought back to get the club back to the Valley and the general friendly atmosphere, yet here we were being treated like the very worst of all Football fans by a regime who’s only answer to the problems besetting the club is the blame those who support it, there is 0% self-awareness on the part of either Duchatelet or Meire they are like the lunatic in the asylum who thinks it’s the rest of the world that’s mad. Moreover what comes next? Riga has gone so we get another no mark from The Network, probably most of the team on Saturday will be gone by end of June and we will be left with the dross plus whatever unknown’s they can dredge up from the other clubs Duchatelet owns.
Normally I am already looking forward to the next season but not now, I have yet to make my mind up whether to renew my season ticket or not, I do not want to support this regime in any way and I don’t want to watch another season of crap like we have just endured, alternatively I also don’t want the club I have been watching for 55 years go into a terminal decline due to underfunding it is a dilemma. I don’t believe Duchatelet will funnel funds into the right place i.e. on the field, employing a good British Manager and he certainly won’t get rid of his “Fly on the wall” KM so the situation becomes worse again. I also don’t believe he will sell up any time this is now a battle of wills between us the fans and him the owner and all indications are he is not a man who likes to lose.
I want to congratulate CARD who have been fantastic in this whole situation and applaud their efforts to try and bring the plight of the club to public attention they deserve our thanks and credit but as it is i find it all deeply depressing. Hope somebody is able to change that for us.