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There is so much more but this is a long posting and you will probably never read it Richard. However, in the unlikely event you do there is one other function that a Message Board provides. It allows fans who have no real access to the hierarchy of the Club to voice their views in a meaningful way (the fans@cafc e-mail has seemingly collapsed and never fulfilled its proper function anyway). These same fans who have been summarily dismissed by Meire as mere customers who should know their place and who should be treated as idiots for believing they have any sense of ownership or attachment to the club,
It is this, a shared experience, a shared community, a shared history which binds us together and allows us not only to express our shared grievances on this site but provides the mechanism by which the fans will play their part in working together as they did before to be custodians of the spirit of the club if not its physical assets and to carry this spirit through to a brighter future.
Whatever happens, you, Richard Murray will probably still be sitting in the Directors box next season in your designer sunglasses and 'attempt to look cool' insouciance. However, if Duchâtelet and his mind-numbingly dim assistant are still in place then some of the empty seats at The Valley which surround you will once have been occupied by fans who have attended for decades but who can no longer continue to finance a regime which treats it customers/fans with such open contempt. One of those empty seats will be mine and you will forgive me Richard if I state that the respect in which I held you previously is long gone. From my seat at The Valley I see you nearby sitting next to the now totally discredited Katrien Meire home game after home game – no one else but you. But here’s the funny thing I never see you talking to her during the game – are you not enjoying your match-day experience together?
So, finally, is your sole function now a shoulder for Katrien to cry on? It was notable at the Burnley game that you both disappeared at half-time following the Liar Banner. Had you provided more guidance perhaps it wouldn’t have come to that or does she simply ignore you and go her own sweet way with everything?
Here’s the rub Richard – you are a successful businessman who has in my opinion been duped. You must know that Meire was inserted into the CEO role by Duchâtelet as a sinecure – she can do whatever she likes, say whatever she likes, act with total disregard to professional standards and be utterly useless in the role without threat of censure by Duchâtelet. In any other business to have allowed Meire to continue as CEO after her performance over the past 6 months would be professional suicide for the incumbent and possibly terminally damaging for the business.
But you Richard, despite all your experience, continue to offer support to this deluded woman and her so-called visionary (read Crackpot) boss. It does beggar belief and if there is one clue, one hint, one alarm bell going off which you should have picked up on last year then you might, you just might have realised what kind of people you were dealing with when Katrien Meire stated in Brussels on September 28th 2015 “I don’t care about the history of the Club”.
A little bit of Charlton died that day Richard but perhaps you didn’t know about it.
After all it was only reported on the Message Boards and you don’t read those do you?
PS If you PM me Richard (not quite sure how though for the reasons already statea) I will provide my full name and contact details should you wish to take issue with any of the above comments.
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said a word.
If anyone here knows Brian and/or Keith, please have a word with them now. Tell them how important it is that we fight to rid ourselves of the current regime. Tell them what a boost it would give the supporters if they would openly come out and support the cause; or if they're not up to that, at least if they could distance themselves from the people who are doing so much damage to our club.