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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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I thought a fanzine had a competition like thatFumbluff said:
Did the club run it? Or was it a Goodbye Horse competition?MartinCAFC said:1997 / 98 the club ran it's Dream Valley competition anyone remember this? It was like a fantasy football based from within the Charlton squad at the start of the season with all the players having prices but you had to stay within a budget so couldn't just pick all the best players.
I ended up winning it, turns out i'd picked the same team as 4 or 5 other managers but the tie breaker was to be the closest to the average attendance for the season which I was closest to and ended up winning the £500 prize.
Can't remember if the club ran it before / after again though.2 -
Ahem.oohaahmortimer said:
I thought a fanzine had a competition like thatFumbluff said:
Did the club run it? Or was it a Goodbye Horse competition?MartinCAFC said:1997 / 98 the club ran it's Dream Valley competition anyone remember this? It was like a fantasy football based from within the Charlton squad at the start of the season with all the players having prices but you had to stay within a budget so couldn't just pick all the best players.
I ended up winning it, turns out i'd picked the same team as 4 or 5 other managers but the tie breaker was to be the closest to the average attendance for the season which I was closest to and ended up winning the £500 prize.
Can't remember if the club ran it before / after again though.3 -
Certainly Goodbye Horse ran one as I won "Manager of the Month" and still have the lovely plastic trophy somewhere to prove it!Fumbluff said:
Did the club run it? Or was it a Goodbye Horse competition?MartinCAFC said:1997 / 98 the club ran it's Dream Valley competition anyone remember this? It was like a fantasy football based from within the Charlton squad at the start of the season with all the players having prices but you had to stay within a budget so couldn't just pick all the best players.
I ended up winning it, turns out i'd picked the same team as 4 or 5 other managers but the tie breaker was to be the closest to the average attendance for the season which I was closest to and ended up winning the £500 prize.
Can't remember if the club ran it before / after again though.
Maybe @Algarveaddick can shed some light?1 -
Airman Brown said:Blogger is reliable. His sources may not be.
Have you heard anything about supposed American Interest Airman?0 -
Dream Valley was overseen by CASC, if I recall, and in the early years the rankings appeared in VOTV. I tried unsuccessfully to get the Mercury to carry them when I was sports editor. I think Goodbye Horse probably took them over later after we dropped them.Weegie Addick said:
Certainly Goodbye Horse ran one as I won "Manager of the Month" and still have the lovely plastic trophy somewhere to prove it!Fumbluff said:
Did the club run it? Or was it a Goodbye Horse competition?MartinCAFC said:1997 / 98 the club ran it's Dream Valley competition anyone remember this? It was like a fantasy football based from within the Charlton squad at the start of the season with all the players having prices but you had to stay within a budget so couldn't just pick all the best players.
I ended up winning it, turns out i'd picked the same team as 4 or 5 other managers but the tie breaker was to be the closest to the average attendance for the season which I was closest to and ended up winning the £500 prize.
Can't remember if the club ran it before / after again though.
Maybe @Algarveaddick can shed some light?0 -
Similar sources. There seem to be a few new people sniffing around, but the line from LDT is that they are at a very early stage.Mal said:Airman Brown said:Blogger is reliable. His sources may not be.
Have you heard anything about supposed American Interest Airman?
Whether that’s true or not, it’s hard to have any confidence in anyone being able reach a deal with Duchatelet, given people who were serious buyers have been unable to do so.8 -
I think you are right @Airman Brown - but I don't really remember, it was a loooong time ago.
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1998, '' And Ilic has saved it ''26
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Yep, it will be the same old story. The moment they end up talking to the Shitweasel they'll realise they've got more chance of sorting out a universally popular Brexit deal than reaching a sensible agreement with our deluded, greedy owner.Airman Brown said:
Similar sources. There seem to be a few new people sniffing around, but the line from LDT is that they are at a very early stage.Mal said:Airman Brown said:Blogger is reliable. His sources may not be.
Have you heard anything about supposed American Interest Airman?
Whether that’s true or not, it’s hard to have any confidence in anyone being able reach a deal with Duchatelet, given people who were serious buyers have been unable to do so.
Plus ca change.....6 -
Hope this is true, but if he hasn't sold us at any point in the past 18 months (the timeframe in which we're led to believe he decided he'd had enough) then i can't see him deciding to sell now we're potentially flirting with promotion to the premier league.Mal said:Dave from The blog "Drinking During The Game" stated this today in his blog : "Finally, I heard mutterings from several sources last night that "he will be gone in three weeks" and twice that an American consortium was in talks to end the Duchatelet nightmare. Given history, we have to be sceptical but it will happen one day and soon would be tremendous"
If you were him you wouldn't sell now, you'd at least wait another 2-3 months and see if we can keep the good form up, as if Bowyer could pull off miracle number 2 then he gets his money back.1 - Sponsored links:
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If he is getting the money he wants then he will sell now instead of gambling on an unlikely promotion.3
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If he sells now, he can say we are in a better league position than when he bought us.
Go on Roland, we'll even let you say you've won if that's what it takes for your ego.25 -
Best game ever played at Wembleyhappyvalley said:1998, '' And Ilic has saved it ''2 -
If you were Roland you do something ridiculous and stupid. Like sell the club now and then see it re-sold next season for double or triple what you sold it for.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
Hope this is true, but if he hasn't sold us at any point in the past 18 months (the timeframe in which we're led to believe he decided he'd had enough) then i can't see him deciding to sell now we're potentially flirting with promotion to the premier league.Mal said:Dave from The blog "Drinking During The Game" stated this today in his blog : "Finally, I heard mutterings from several sources last night that "he will be gone in three weeks" and twice that an American consortium was in talks to end the Duchatelet nightmare. Given history, we have to be sceptical but it will happen one day and soon would be tremendous"
If you were him you wouldn't sell now, you'd at least wait another 2-3 months and see if we can keep the good form up, as if Bowyer could pull off miracle number 2 then he gets his money back.3 -
All he has to do is put a clause for promotion to trigger an additional fee.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
Hope this is true, but if he hasn't sold us at any point in the past 18 months (the timeframe in which we're led to believe he decided he'd had enough) then i can't see him deciding to sell now we're potentially flirting with promotion to the premier league.Mal said:Dave from The blog "Drinking During The Game" stated this today in his blog : "Finally, I heard mutterings from several sources last night that "he will be gone in three weeks" and twice that an American consortium was in talks to end the Duchatelet nightmare. Given history, we have to be sceptical but it will happen one day and soon would be tremendous"
If you were him you wouldn't sell now, you'd at least wait another 2-3 months and see if we can keep the good form up, as if Bowyer could pull off miracle number 2 then he gets his money back.2 -
Anyone who's anyone knows any legit rumor deadline should be 2 weeks in length, amateurs!3
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no its generally optimal as a time frame for any take over rumour, just out of reach but enough to pique the interest2
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Everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out the year canters lost his virginity!Sage said:Gutted I missed page 1995. Crazy to think @ForeverAddickted started secondary when I would only have been about 2-3 weeks old.
Just have to settle for being 2 in 1997.
The page numbers are the most exciting thing on this thread now.
I wonder if we get to page 2020 before the turn of the new year, the internet will just explode..?4 -
Is your bum still hurting?cantersaddick said:
Everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out the year canters lost his virginity!Sage said:Gutted I missed page 1995. Crazy to think @ForeverAddickted started secondary when I would only have been about 2-3 weeks old.
Just have to settle for being 2 in 1997.
The page numbers are the most exciting thing on this thread now.
I wonder if we get to page 2020 before the turn of the new year, the internet will just explode..?12 - Sponsored links:
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That reads like you’re hopeful it’ll happen in 2020 mate....if that’s true then I wish you good luck...cantersaddick said:
Everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out the year canters lost his virginity!Sage said:Gutted I missed page 1995. Crazy to think @ForeverAddickted started secondary when I would only have been about 2-3 weeks old.
Just have to settle for being 2 in 1997.
The page numbers are the most exciting thing on this thread now.
I wonder if we get to page 2020 before the turn of the new year, the internet will just explode..?3 -
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Still no ceo then.0
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Came close in 2013.Fumbluff said:
That reads like you’re hopeful it’ll happen in 2020 mate....if that’s true then I wish you good luck...cantersaddick said:
Everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out the year canters lost his virginity!Sage said:Gutted I missed page 1995. Crazy to think @ForeverAddickted started secondary when I would only have been about 2-3 weeks old.
Just have to settle for being 2 in 1997.
The page numbers are the most exciting thing on this thread now.
I wonder if we get to page 2020 before the turn of the new year, the internet will just explode..?2 -
Back in the day, Grandson Jimmy organized a competition (first guess) and I'm sure as everyone's date was passed, there was just One man standing, who said December 2020.
From memory I'm sure the prize was a Week in Benidorm with Thomas Cook.
Who was mystic meg ?3 -
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just found this thread languishing on page 2 !!!!0 -
*batedcantersaddick said:
Everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out the year canters lost his virginity!Sage said:Gutted I missed page 1995. Crazy to think @ForeverAddickted started secondary when I would only have been about 2-3 weeks old.
Just have to settle for being 2 in 1997.
The page numbers are the most exciting thing on this thread now.
I wonder if we get to page 2020 before the turn of the new year, the internet will just explode..?
(I have nothing else to contribute to the thread right now, but just wanted to see it bumped again)0 -
Page 2 and beyond is where it belongs. Roland is eyeing the premiership, nobody is breaking down his door to buy us and all the fans are as happy as larry.golfaddick said:BUMP
just found this thread languishing on page 2 !!!!2 -
*baitedChizz said:
*batedcantersaddick said:
Everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out the year canters lost his virginity!Sage said:Gutted I missed page 1995. Crazy to think @ForeverAddickted started secondary when I would only have been about 2-3 weeks old.
Just have to settle for being 2 in 1997.
The page numbers are the most exciting thing on this thread now.
I wonder if we get to page 2020 before the turn of the new year, the internet will just explode..?
(I have nothing else to contribute to the thread right now, but just wanted to see it bumped again)
I also have nothing to add, but it was clearly a fish pun
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Master baited my fishing rodcafcpolo said:
*baitedChizz said:
*batedcantersaddick said:
Everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out the year canters lost his virginity!Sage said:Gutted I missed page 1995. Crazy to think @ForeverAddickted started secondary when I would only have been about 2-3 weeks old.
Just have to settle for being 2 in 1997.
The page numbers are the most exciting thing on this thread now.
I wonder if we get to page 2020 before the turn of the new year, the internet will just explode..?
(I have nothing else to contribute to the thread right now, but just wanted to see it bumped again)
I also have nothing to add, but it was clearly a fish pun1
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