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Martin Samuel drops a tonne of excrement on Katrien Meire in The Mail...

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  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,759
    One of the big boys going to town on her ... good stuff.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    thewolfboy said:

    Why are the Football League bothering with our hapless Katrien when they can choose Carolyn Still of mansfield Town who is younger, prettier and no doubt much better at her job than Ms Meire?

    :smile:


  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,219
    Tunwellsaddick said:

    I would love her to get the job at the FA. They won't know what hit them. She has proved her incompetence over and over again so, should fit right in. Could be quite a show.

    I would be happy to give her a glowing reference.....
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,074
    Any chance a copy of this can be sent to Roland? He would then be fully aware it's not just the fans that see a problem with her incompetence.
  • Jayajosh
    Jayajosh Posts: 2,880
    edited January 2017
    With articles like that, we'll never get rid of her.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,185
    She obviously can't even do lunch effectively. Look at the guff Brady gets him to write about the Olympic Stadium

    PS, don't forget, tonight 19.30, BBC1 London
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,582
    shirty5 said:

    If she needs a reference, then I will gladly pass one on to the FA.

    It wouldn't be a bad idea to send them some unsolicited references if we can figure out who needs to get them.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,417
    In fairness, she has some skills. She was issuing 'alternative facts' long before Donald Trump cottoned on to the idea.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,481
    edited January 2017
    Ormiston Addick said:

    SDAddick said:

    Ormiston Addick said:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4145894/FA-need-hire-women-not-Charlton-s-Katrien-Meire.html

    Holy shit, how many other CEO's of League One teams are so incompetent that they make the Premier League obsessed national press?

    Great work Katrien, you have finally made the big time, might have been an idea to sort the day job out first before creating a media profile for yourself.

    It certainly would not be entirely unreasonable to compare Meire to US nut-job politician Sarah 'Hillbilly' Palin, both very similar in their backgrounds and conduct.

    No, they're very much not. Katrien is a lawyer, Sarah Palin has a high school diploma. Just because they're women in the spot light who were both given jobs they weren't qualified for does not make them the same.

    Yes, I am standing up for KM here to a degree, but only because Sarah Palin was drastically less qualified and given a job exponentially more serious.
    Sorry mate, will have to disagree here.

    KM might have a law degree but worth remembering that George W Bush had an MBA and went to Yale, don't prove a damn thing.

    I think they are very similar, Palin got noticed by Bill Kristol and launched onto the national stage when she was nowhere near qualified to do so.

    The same happened with Meire, she came under Roland's wing and somehow got parachuted into the CEO slot of a football club despite no experience as CEO or in football at all.

    Both of them were then very quickly exposed because they had no idea what they were doing - something that was easily identifiable as soon as they went before the media and public.
    An interesting take and fair enough, especially if you isolate Sarah Palin in 2008. I think of her mostly in the 8-9 years hence, in which she has doubled and trippled down on the crazy, and has this strange cult-like following (and yes I know some would argue that comparison is apt as well). Also, @aliwibble had a good shout for Conway, because I think she knows better than the things she says.

    I just reread my post from yesterday, posted then didn't check this thread again until this morning, and I think it came across as more exasperated than I meant it too. I was simply trying to say "these two things aren't the same." Sorry to you Ormiston if it felt like an attack, it really wasn't meant to be. And that's before we get into the fact that you had a very well thought out reason for your comparison.

    Oh Bill Kristol. It's sad because he gets called really nasty anti-semitic things by White Nationalists, and yet in the Jewish tradition I would also like to say some not so pleasant things about him. Another conversation for another time.

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  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,481
    BDL said:



    Forgot all about this, wonder who else she wined and dined. Didn't go well though did it.

    Bet this article can't be found on Google in a few weeks!
    Is she really doing that?!?!?!

    Honestly, between the Google scrub and doing that, those are pretty standard PR things for someone looking to transform their image. I don't really begrudge her any of that. But it's the fact that it just doesn't work. I mean she even had a decent start to the window--I think we got good money for Lookman and JFC and Page are, I think going to be very good long term signings, and Byrne can do it at this level. But it just always goes awry for her.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,889
    PragueAddick said:

    She obviously can't even do lunch effectively. Look at the guff Brady gets him to write about the Olympic Stadium

    PS, don't forget, tonight 19.30, BBC1 London

    For those outside the London area with Sky it's on channel 954, already skyplussed Prague :wink:
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    We shouldn't get too excited by KM getting slagged off in the daily fail by an odious fat gobshite like Samuel. If that pr!ck tells you it's raining, always best to stick your hand out the window to check. She is just an excuse for Jabba the misogynist to have a tedious grumble on one of his dreary peeves at one of his pet hates, the FA. We all know that clueless fuckw!ts running discredited shambles like the FA get harangued by handwringers about equality and diversity and as a result they might appoint egotwits like KM to positions they are ill qualified to fill. MS doesn't give two sh!ts for Charlton's predicament he's just a lazy old school hack with column inches to pad.
    Being derided for inadequacy by the daily fail is akin to being called insensitive and unpopular by Katie Hopkins.
    Katrien and Roly will just mark down the Mail as unintelligent and not knowing what's best for de president's cloob.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    bazjonster said:

    thewolfboy said:

    Why are the Football League bothering with our hapless Katrien when they can choose Carolyn Still of mansfield Town who is younger, prettier and no doubt much better at her job than Ms Meire?

    :smile:


    Holy crap.

    No brainer.

    Already more respectful, respectable, relevant and competent then Meire
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Martin Samuel knows a thing or 2 about football.

    Someone that actually does the job he is supposed to.

    Report on what is real, down to earth and important.

    Not many out there.
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,252
    Now THAT is an article. Well informed, haven't pulled any punches either... Why doesn't she get it that she should just fuck off out of the club? Incapable, incompetent and unqualified.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,185
    Dave2l said:

    Martin Samuel knows a thing or 2 about football.

    Someone that actually does the job he is supposed to.

    Report on what is real, down to earth and important.

    Not many out there.

    I'm tempted to pull out some of the articles the fat toad has written to order defending West Ham's great taxpayer swindle, including attacking Charlton fans for daring to speak up against it.

    But this is not the place. It is a good article supporting our concerns, as have been Rod Liddle's, despite him being a slimy Spanner.

  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    PragueAddick said:

    Dave2l said:

    Martin Samuel knows a thing or 2 about football.

    Someone that actually does the job he is supposed to.

    Report on what is real, down to earth and important.

    Not many out there.

    I'm tempted to pull out some of the articles the fat toad has written to order defending West Ham's great taxpayer swindle, including attacking Charlton fans for daring to speak up against it.

    But this is not the place. It is a good article supporting our concerns, as have been Rod Liddle's, despite him being a slimy Spanner.

    Oh....

    Well the good news from my perspective is that I currently only give a crap about Charlton and getting Roland and his incompetent sidekick

    :smile:

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,509
    SDAddick said:

    Ormiston Addick said:

    SDAddick said:

    Ormiston Addick said:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4145894/FA-need-hire-women-not-Charlton-s-Katrien-Meire.html

    Holy shit, how many other CEO's of League One teams are so incompetent that they make the Premier League obsessed national press?

    Great work Katrien, you have finally made the big time, might have been an idea to sort the day job out first before creating a media profile for yourself.

    It certainly would not be entirely unreasonable to compare Meire to US nut-job politician Sarah 'Hillbilly' Palin, both very similar in their backgrounds and conduct.

    No, they're very much not. Katrien is a lawyer, Sarah Palin has a high school diploma. Just because they're women in the spot light who were both given jobs they weren't qualified for does not make them the same.

    Yes, I am standing up for KM here to a degree, but only because Sarah Palin was drastically less qualified and given a job exponentially more serious.
    Sorry mate, will have to disagree here.

    KM might have a law degree but worth remembering that George W Bush had an MBA and went to Yale, don't prove a damn thing.

    I think they are very similar, Palin got noticed by Bill Kristol and launched onto the national stage when she was nowhere near qualified to do so.

    The same happened with Meire, she came under Roland's wing and somehow got parachuted into the CEO slot of a football club despite no experience as CEO or in football at all.

    Both of them were then very quickly exposed because they had no idea what they were doing - something that was easily identifiable as soon as they went before the media and public.
    An interesting take and fair enough, especially if you isolate Sarah Palin in 2008. I think of her mostly in the 8-9 years hence, in which she has doubled and trippled down on the crazy, and has this strange cult-like following (and yes I know some would argue that comparison is apt as well). Also, @aliwibble had a good shout for Conway, because I think she knows better than the things she says.

    I just reread my post from yesterday, posted then didn't check this thread again until this morning, and I think it came across as more exasperated than I meant it too. I was simply trying to say "these two things aren't the same." Sorry to you Ormiston if it felt like an attack, it really wasn't meant to be. And that's before we get into the fact that you had a very well thought out reason for your comparison.

    Oh Bill Kristol. It's sad because he gets called really nasty anti-semitic things by White Nationalists, and yet in the Jewish tradition I would also like to say some not so pleasant things about him. Another conversation for another time.
    WTF....has all that got to do with the Martin Samuel article?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,264
    StigThundercock said:

    We shouldn't get too excited by KM getting slagged off in the daily fail by an odious fat gobshite like Samuel. If that pr!ck tells you it's raining, always best to stick your hand out the window to check. She is just an excuse for Jabba the misogynist to have a tedious grumble on one of his dreary peeves at one of his pet hates, the FA. We all know that clueless fuckw!ts running discredited shambles like the FA get harangued by handwringers about equality and diversity and as a result they might appoint egotwits like KM to positions they are ill qualified to fill. MS doesn't give two sh!ts for Charlton's predicament he's just a lazy old school hack with column inches to pad.
    Being derided for inadequacy by the daily fail is akin to being called insensitive and unpopular by Katie Hopkins.
    Katrien and Roly will just mark down the Mail as unintelligent and not knowing what's best for de president's cloob.

    Regardless of his personal intentions, it all helps. She's ill equipped to deal with this on her own. Green Rubashow will have no answer and no help. Bevington if still about will realise her card is marked by senior national journalists and it's like anything, her reputation is crap. No amount of Google cleansing can help her if the likes of Samuel think she's incompetent.

    Having someone like Jo Tongue on her side is like having an unmbrella in a tornado
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,378
    If she can get a full time job at the FA and us rid of her I'm all for her furthering her career. If she makes a success of it that's good, (however unlikely), if she doesn't she either gets the sack or stays in a job surrounded by like minded people.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,092
    Just had a little preview of tonights feature on BBC London news. I think Boris and co might be hiding behind the sofa on this one!.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,113
    PragueAddick said:

    She obviously can't even do lunch effectively. Look at the guff Brady gets him to write about the Olympic Stadium

    PS, don't forget, tonight 19.30, BBC1 London

    For those like me, whose tv boxes are automatically tuned to one of the less interesting regions, BBC1 London is on Sky Channel 954.
  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    Having made the right decision every time (10 so far) she would be perfect for the FA. I suspect she hired Allardyce on her secondment.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    kentaddick said:

    The FA don't like a scandal and the press sniffing around decisions like this. Can see them knocking katrien on the head

    I can dream can't I?
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,031
    c4fcdenmark said:

    Having made the right decision every time (10 so far) she would be perfect for the FA. I suspect she hired Allardyce on her secondment.

    Isn't it 7 managers (8 if you count Powell but not appointed by the regime).
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,735
    EveshamAddick said:

    c4fcdenmark said:

    Having made the right decision every time (10 so far) she would be perfect for the FA. I suspect she hired Allardyce on her secondment.

    Isn't it 7 managers (8 if you count Powell but not appointed by the regime).
    See page one for the correct answer

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