Enjoyed that. As @Oh_Yoni_Boy said, very therapeutic. Here's my parting missive:
Matchday experience is primarily about watching football. I don't expect my team to win every game nor do I expect Galactico level skills; I do expect a professional performance from adult footballers, not ramshackle efforts from inexperienced youths and crocked continentals. It is a sad indictment of this survey, the league and my club that not one of the questions here related to performances on the pitch. Over the last year, by far the most interesting things to happen at The Valley on match days have been the demonstrations. I will not be there to see them in this coming season. None of the peripheral things you have mentioned here will persuade me to go to Charlton. There is a real problem with our game at the moment. People like Duchatelet, Oyston and Cellino should not be allowed to be involved in football (I'm sure that as well as feedback from Charlton fans you'll hear plenty from Blackpool and Leeds as well). These people have no interest in football and are destroying clubs that should be central to their communities. The football league needs to get a grip of this and change its rules to prevent these wreckers from destroying our clubs. All the time you are messing around with questions about floodlights (wtf?) and car parking, you are fiddle whilst Rome burns.
P.S. In this questionnaire I gave top marks to Charlton's community activities. The league needs to know that these are not run by directly the club - our CEO loves to lake the credit for others' work.
Enjoyed that. As @Oh_Yoni_Boy said, very therapeutic. Here's my parting missive:
Matchday experience is primarily about watching football. I don't expect my team to win every game nor do I expect Galactico level skills; I do expect a professional performance from adult footballers, not ramshackle efforts from inexperienced youths and crocked continentals. It is a sad indictment of this survey, the league and my club that not one of the questions here related to performances on the pitch. Over the last year, by far the most interesting things to happen at The Valley on match days have been the demonstrations. I will not be there to see them in this coming season. None of the peripheral things you have mentioned here will persuade me to go to Charlton. There is a real problem with our game at the moment. People like Duchatelet, Oyston and Cellino should not be allowed to be involved in football (I'm sure that as well as feedback from Charlton fans you'll hear plenty from Blackpool and Leeds as well). These people have no interest in football and are destroying clubs that should be central to their communities. The football league needs to get a grip of this and change its rules to prevent these wreckers from destroying our clubs. All the time you are messing around with questions about floodlights (wtf?) and car parking, you are fiddle whilst Rome burns.
P.S. In this questionnaire I gave top marks to Charlton's community activities. The league needs to know that these are not run by directly the club - our CEO loves to lake the credit for others' work.
Also gave top marks for community activities.
I would assume this survey is a clubs led initiative designed to share marketing data to target their efforts in getting us to buy their crap and spend money on match day. Doubt clubs were interested in finding out what fans really felt.
I couldn't resist a parting shot across the EFL's bows as to why they allow unfit owners like Douchbag and Oysten to ruin clubs and that they must be held accountable for what is being allowed to happen.
So did I, before reading your post.
I enjoyed competing that. Regretably, Charlton scored 0/10 on many questions and yes I also asked why the FL allowed owners that have stated that they don't care whether the team wins or not. Their fit & proper rules need updating to take account of the new sheisters buying football clubs.
Enjoyed that. As @Oh_Yoni_Boy said, very therapeutic. Here's my parting missive:
Matchday experience is primarily about watching football. I don't expect my team to win every game nor do I expect Galactico level skills; I do expect a professional performance from adult footballers, not ramshackle efforts from inexperienced youths and crocked continentals. It is a sad indictment of this survey, the league and my club that not one of the questions here related to performances on the pitch. Over the last year, by far the most interesting things to happen at The Valley on match days have been the demonstrations. I will not be there to see them in this coming season. None of the peripheral things you have mentioned here will persuade me to go to Charlton. There is a real problem with our game at the moment. People like Duchatelet, Oyston and Cellino should not be allowed to be involved in football (I'm sure that as well as feedback from Charlton fans you'll hear plenty from Blackpool and Leeds as well). These people have no interest in football and are destroying clubs that should be central to their communities. The football league needs to get a grip of this and change its rules to prevent these wreckers from destroying our clubs. All the time you are messing around with questions about floodlights (wtf?) and car parking, you are fiddle whilst Rome burns.
P.S. In this questionnaire I gave top marks to Charlton's community activities. The league needs to know that these are not run by directly the club - our CEO loves to lake the credit for others' work.
Have the survey. Went with both barrels...and then reloaded a couple of times! Would love the League to ask Clubs for their comments on their individual reports. And to insist that they do so!!
Is that a role the Football League expect every club to have?
I'm sure we used to have someone, it's probably been tagged on to someone's role down there.
Is it also worth us all asking the "EFL" to release the results?
Maybe that's something the Trust can take forwards?
Definitely. At least, we will try. I am not sure it is their plan.
By the way, at the Supporter Summit, the new EFL chairman, Ian Lenagan, gave the opening address. Here is the "official" CAST write up on what he said.
What it does not say is that nearly everyone considered both his speech and his appointment to be hugely unimpressive, and he faced a barrage of hostile questions, of which Steve's was just the first.
The consensus is that he is a Rugby league man, building himself a "position" in sport.
We need to put him and others under scrutiny, but we cannot do it alone, which is why alliances with other Trusts are so important.
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Matchday experience is primarily about watching football. I don't expect my team to win every game nor do I expect Galactico level skills; I do expect a professional performance from adult footballers, not ramshackle efforts from inexperienced youths and crocked continentals. It is a sad indictment of this survey, the league and my club that not one of the questions here related to performances on the pitch. Over the last year, by far the most interesting things to happen at The Valley on match days have been the demonstrations. I will not be there to see them in this coming season. None of the peripheral things you have mentioned here will persuade me to go to Charlton. There is a real problem with our game at the moment. People like Duchatelet, Oyston and Cellino should not be allowed to be involved in football (I'm sure that as well as feedback from Charlton fans you'll hear plenty from Blackpool and Leeds as well). These people have no interest in football and are destroying clubs that should be central to their communities. The football league needs to get a grip of this and change its rules to prevent these wreckers from destroying our clubs. All the time you are messing around with questions about floodlights (wtf?) and car parking, you are fiddle whilst Rome burns.
P.S. In this questionnaire I gave top marks to Charlton's community activities. The league needs to know that these are not run by directly the club - our CEO loves to lake the credit for others' work.
I would assume this survey is a clubs led initiative designed to share marketing data to target their efforts in getting us to buy their crap and spend money on match day. Doubt clubs were interested in finding out what fans really felt.
I enjoyed competing that. Regretably, Charlton scored 0/10 on many questions and yes I also asked why the FL allowed owners that have stated that they don't care whether the team wins or not. Their fit & proper rules need updating to take account of the new sheisters buying football clubs.
Have the survey. Went with both barrels...and then reloaded a couple of times! Would love the League to ask Clubs for their comments on their individual reports. And to insist that they do so!!
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By the way, at the Supporter Summit, the new EFL chairman, Ian Lenagan, gave the opening address. Here is the "official" CAST write up on what he said.
What it does not say is that nearly everyone considered both his speech and his appointment to be hugely unimpressive, and he faced a barrage of hostile questions, of which Steve's was just the first.
The consensus is that he is a Rugby league man, building himself a "position" in sport.
We need to put him and others under scrutiny, but we cannot do it alone, which is why alliances with other Trusts are so important.