"All the things I’d heard about [before I came], haven’t been the case. I think if you asked them both they’d say maybe they underestimated how things worked in England and that’s where things fell down a little bit.”
Given that Karl hadn't actually taken charge of a match when he said this, he might be jumping the gun a bit.
What a worthless puff piece. Even the picture is wrong. The Guardian are so desperate for money, they will have jumped out of their skins for the Pitch PR shilling. Wankers.
The Telegraph carried a similar interview, with the same picture of Nugent. They also captioned it as being Robinson.
Of course she's tried to give you everything you've asked for. They're desperate to make things work. Especially after their first English manager didn't work out as hoped.
Everyone wants to get on with their new boss, I understand that. Of course it's a good move to publicly say something nice about them to help cement a spirt of good will. I get that too. The trouble is that your employers are so hideously bad and your praise so gushing that it immediately calls into question your professional judgement. They haven't just made a few errors, they have presided over three years of absolute shitty-shit. Their errors are so consistent, and in some cases so huge, that it makes you wonder if they deliberately get things wrong just to enjoy the schadenfreude. I don't seriously believe that's that case, but it really does seem that they have developed some strange variation of the Midas Touch, lets call it the Merde Touch, because everything they get their hands on turns to crap.
I wish you every success in your new job, Karl. I hope that you can get Charlton promoted. But please, before making any more outrageous statements about the quality of our ownership, I seriously suggest that you acquaint yourself with some of the facts as to what has happened here:
By selling our best players
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By bringing in incompetent network replacements
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By interfering in team selections
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By sacking a brilliant manager who loved the club
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By trying (and failing) to run a player farm
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By tying up the player budget with crocked players and those who cannot be shifted
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By offering the less than unique proposition of being able to watch the Premiership stars of the future (we could do that by watching the reserve teams of Prem sides, if that was our interest)
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By playing a youngster who was so ill, he collapsed at half time
…that’s where things fell down a little bit (literally)!
By refusing to engage with supporters groups until they realised it was a PR disaster
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By concocting sham supporter groups to claim that they are engaging
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By continually lying to fans
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By calling fans weird and then trying to redefine the English language in an attempt to wriggle out of it
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By closing the ticket office midweek
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By giving over ticketing space to an NHS call centre
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By imposing a fine on people buying tickets on the day
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By posting a message {…} on the intranet claiming that fans want the club to fail
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By declaring war with fans on national radio
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By employing an illegally unidentified goon-squad who attacked fans
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By declaring that certain words aren’t allowed to be used in the Stadium
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By stating in the Belgian press that they care nothing for the history of the club
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By producing an advert so out of kilter with common decency, that the ASA banned it
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By continually sacking managers (watch your back Karl) and claiming that things got better every time
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By appointing a manager without a work permit
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By imposing a ‘interim coach’ who was hopeless, but not seeking a replacement until after he’d been sacked
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By fleeing from a match in a laundry van
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By posting a photo of the wrong player on a memorial tribute
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By causing the Head of Communications to resign just weeks after taking the post
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By leaving senior management posts unfilled
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By selling chips in portions of just 14
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By cocking up vouchers compensating displaced fans so that they had no opportunity to use them
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By using the club captain as a human shield
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By using a fifteen year old boy as a smokescreen for proper communications
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By using the club’s resources to promote their own self interests rather than those of the club
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By not attending matches and letting your absence demonstrate that you don’t care
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By publicly stating that the club are only 1.5% of your interests
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By getting the club to its lowest league position ever
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By presiding over an unprecedented fall in attendances (enjoy the support from all those empty seats, Karl)
…that’s where things fell down a little bit!
By racking up £30+ million in debts and charging the club interest on those debts
If the Trust haven't heard back from Robinson in the next couple of weeks, then I'll suggest we simply send him Stig's list. (By the way, the letter was hand delivered to the training ground, so he most certainly should have received it.)
Read Stig's list to a Liverpool fan earlier. He knew about the protests ( especially the flying pigs) but his jaw dropped open as I went down that list. He said they just sound completely ridiculous. That's almost the difficulty, getting the message about just how disastrous they actually are. If weird means unique, then I vote we say that "fell down a little bit" actually means "fucking hopeless."
They are so bad, I think there's plenty of stuff not on the list. As soon as I'd posted it, I remembered that they tried to blame the post office for their own inefficiencies in sending out tickets and the kerfuffle about disabled supporters accessing the lounges. I didn't want to post straight away though because I'd already had a telling off from Scabby Horse for daring to remind people anything negative.
I actually don't share as much animosity towards Katrien as most on here. She is the mouthpiece for Roland and has to face the music when Roland makes ridiculous decisions and statements.
She wouldn't have said what she said on Talksport about Russel Slade if she knew he was in danger. She's said it and Roland has totally undermined her.
Why she doesn't just walk away confuses me.
She was offered a fantastic job as CEO of CAFC and took it (as we all would have?). She is now a rabbit in the headlights but realises if she walks away she goes back to being a junior lawyer on peanuts with a tarnished reputation. She'll hang around all the time Roland wants her to. No self respect/pride, no clue, no future.
Yann & Dale were homesick... it's easier to get to France and t'north from Bournemouth & Brighton respectively as the public transport system in London is not fit for purpose & the roads permanently grid locked. The players both forced moves on that basis
By bringing in incompetent network replacements
Racist xenophobic fans.
By interfering in team selections
You say this but we may have stayed up had the managers not stubbornly ignored my suggestion of the "snowflake" 4- 3- 4-2-1-3 formation with the quarterbacks shooting from the free throw line for a try & using the whole ring.
By sacking a brilliant manager who loved the club
Karel Fraeye lost 14 on the trot & fans were calling for his sacking
By trying (and failing) to run a player farm
We were exploiting EU subsidies for this. Will need to reassess post Brexit. Racist xenophobic fans.
By tying up the player budget with crocked players and those who cannot be shifted
If the player has one bad knee he must learn to run with the other knee. It's unique that modern players don't wish to do this
By offering the less than unique proposition of being able to watch the Premiership stars of the future (we could do that by watching the reserve teams of Prem sides, if that was our interest)
A Spurs cabbie assured me that Charlton is better than Spur's reserves and even their first team experience so he will watch us now.
By playing a youngster who was so ill, he collapsed at half time
You rather we discriminate against the sick?
By refusing to engage with supporters groups until they realised it was a PR disaster
Have you seen some of them? Would you sit in a room with them?
By concocting sham supporter groups to claim that they are engaging
Simply not true. Only this week we have met with Addis Ababa Addicks, Target Return to Selhurst & a lady in the queue at the post office who told me her son's train to work passes the Valley.
By continually lying to fans
We've not lied once in 7 years of funding CAFC & delivering Champions league football
By calling fans weird and then trying to redefine the English language in an attempt to wriggle out of it
This was misinterpreted. We have never called fans "weird" and deem this a freakish allegation from the immensely strange group of misfits and oddballs that follow the club.
By closing the ticket office midweek
We've been been able to fund 3 sofas & pie cam for this minor inconvenience.
By giving over ticketing space to an NHS call centre
You really do hate the sick
By imposing a fine on people buying tickets on the day
It is not a "fine" but a House DJ surcharge
By posting a message {…} on the intranet claiming that fans want the club to fail
Have you never accidentally sent an email before finishing typ
By declaring war with fans on national radio
Would you rather we did so on international television? We will look into this.
By employing an illegally unidentified goon-squad who attacked fans
This was nothing to do with the club. Intelligence suggests it was Red Division making a stand against the tartan blanket siddarn' brigade. Werthers originals are still being found on the concourses as I type. It was always going to boil over between such a partisan and sectarian collective of fans inside a pressure cooker of a club
By declaring that certain words aren’t allowed to be used in the Stadium
We've worked too hard to let "supposed fans" drag the terraces back to the 1970s. Think of the children potty mouth.
By stating in the Belgian press that they care nothing for the history of the club
By producing an advert so out of kilter with common decency, that the ASA banned it Chris Powell suggested the advert in a email & it's sadly why we had to let him go. The email was very detailed & choreographed right down the the shade of the stilettos. This will be revealed in Roland's podcast, episode 1 due to air next week and downloadable from ITunes.
By continually sacking managers (watch your back Karl) and claiming that things got better every time
We've learned from this & are already succession planning by scouting the top European leagues for a replacement in case things don't work out with Chris O'Lough... Karl Robinson. In fact one of our 12 year old scouts recently complained he missed a whole week of Cubs because he was watching games in suburban Albania & northern Lichtenstein.
By appointing a manager without a work permit
Racist xenophobic fans.
By imposing a ‘interim coach’ who was hopeless, but not seeking a replacement until after he’d been sacked
Come on...it gave the excellent witty chant "Get interim, fuck 'em up!" and you cannot put a price on that sort of comedy.
By fleeing from a match in a laundry van
Jealous. Suppose you got the train. Yawn.
By posting a photo of the wrong player on a memorial tribute
This was pretty fucking unforgivable. Still, one mistake in 3 years huh.
By causing the Head of Communications to resign just weeks after taking the post
We're working hard to replace this role & our next HoC will be our Alex Ferguson. Maybe even Alex Ferguson. I've interviewed 297 suitable candidates whilst writing this response.
By leaving senior management posts unfilled
There is no one currently available to respond to this.
By selling chips in portions of just 14
Perhaps you can take extra ones from your shoulder huh? #LOLZ BANTZ
By cocking up vouchers compensating displaced fans so that they had no opportunity to use them
We will be sending replacement vouchers to be used at last Thursday's Littlewoods cup game versus Stockport County.
By using the club captain as a human shield
No the club shield is still the sword and hand. You're mistaken.
By using a fifteen year old boy as a smokescreen for proper communications
I believe the children are our are future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of pride to make it easier Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
By using the club’s resources to promote their own self interests rather than those of the club
If you can't see the value in residential aromatherapy courses then I pity you
By not attending matches and letting your absence demonstrate that you don’t care
I'm shy.
By publicly stating that the club are only 1.5% of your interests
I have lots of interests. It's healthy to... how you say?....not keep all your hens home to roost in one basket better than 2 in a bush.
By getting the club to its lowest league position ever Judge us on results not tables.
By presiding over an unprecedented fall in attendances (enjoy the support from all those empty seats, Karl)
We're working closely with Target 5k to rectify this & expect to reopen the covered end & East stand ahead of our opening Vanarama fixture in 2019. Have you seen the nice new south stand sing though-focus on the positives & don't sweat the small stuff.
By racking up £30+ million in debts and charging the club interest on those debts
Depressing that he seems to have come in believing everything is great at the club and the only problem is that Meire and Duchatalet are misunderstood.
OK, he wanted the job and we can hardly expect him to attack his boss from the off. But there are limits
I actually don't share as much animosity towards Katrien as most on here. She is the mouthpiece for Roland and has to face the music when Roland makes ridiculous decisions and statements.
She wouldn't have said what she said on Talksport about Russel Slade if she knew he was in danger. She's said it and Roland has totally undermined her.
Why she doesn't just walk away confuses me.
She was offered a fantastic job as CEO of CAFC and took it (as we all would have?). She is now a rabbit in the headlights but realises if she walks away she goes back to being a junior lawyer on peanuts with a tarnished reputation. She'll hang around all the time Roland wants her to. No self respect/pride, no clue, no future.
They are so bad, I think there's plenty of stuff not on the list. As soon as I'd posted it, I remembered that they tried to blame the post office for their own inefficiencies in sending out tickets and the kerfuffle about disabled supporters accessing the lounges. I didn't want to post straight away though because I'd already had a telling off from Scabby Horse for daring to remind people anything negative.
Still doing your trolling Henry I see. We can't all claim to be ITK, or wish to imply we are, so it's only polite to identify something as pure speculation or BS.
Still doing your trolling Henry I see. We can't all claim to be ITK, or wish to imply we are, so it's only polite to identify something as pure speculation or BS.
Still doing your trolling Henry I see. We can't all claim to be ITK, or wish to imply we are, so it's only polite to identify something as pure speculation or BS.
"All the things I’d heard about [before I came], haven’t been the case. I think if you asked them both they’d say maybe they underestimated how things worked in England and that’s where things fell down a little bit.”
Given that Karl hadn't actually taken charge of a match when he said this, he might be jumping the gun a bit.
What a worthless puff piece. Even the picture is wrong. The Guardian are so desperate for money, they will have jumped out of their skins for the Pitch PR shilling. Wankers.
The Telegraph carried a similar interview, with the same picture of Nugent. They also captioned it as being Robinson.
Pitch PR should offer more accurate press briefings, considering the cost of their services
"All the things I’d heard about [before I came], haven’t been the case. I think if you asked them both they’d say maybe they underestimated how things worked in England and that’s where things fell down a little bit.”
Given that Karl hadn't actually taken charge of a match when he said this, he might be jumping the gun a bit.
What a worthless puff piece. Even the picture is wrong. The Guardian are so desperate for money, they will have jumped out of their skins for the Pitch PR shilling. Wankers.
The Telegraph carried a similar interview, with the same picture of Nugent. They also captioned it as being Robinson.
Pitch PR should offer more accurate press briefings, considering the cost of their services
They are too busy pleading with Katrien not to talk to anyone. That's a full time job, so other mistakes will happen.
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(By the way, the letter was hand delivered to the training ground, so he most certainly should have received it.)
That's almost the difficulty, getting the message about just how disastrous they actually are.
If weird means unique, then I vote we say that "fell down a little bit" actually means "fucking hopeless."
is this on yr list stig?
Stig, do you know you're a bit of a star?
OK, he wanted the job and we can hardly expect him to attack his boss from the off. But there are limits
Does anybody want to add to this?