According to Colin Philip Aiken will be the new Chairman of Charlton. He was at the Valley yesterday.
Aiken was named as the chairman (of AFC) in the original Mail Online story in April 2017. The Mail story has proven pretty accurate, although they never identified Muir as involved. Can’t think who did. The only reason to think the Aiken chairman stuff may be untrue is that 1) it was suggested to me Muir would be chairman a few weeks back and 2) Aiken recently denied any continuing involvement - as @Curb_It has reported. I still think one of the guys in the directors’ box looks like a relative of Aiken.
You should, it was on the cover on Voice of the Valley : - )
That can’t be right. I don’t have any sources, apparently.
You would struggle to find space on the peninsular now. Time has moved on and the Chinese developers are building housing and retail everywhere. Much more profitable than a stadium.
The Valley is landlocked by narrow roads and the railway. Any alternative use would be limited by this.
One further point this is what Balfour Beatty do
• Construction services: Design, construction management, refurbishment and fit out, mechanical and electrical services, civil engineering, ground engineering and rail engineering.
• Support services: Installation, upgrade and maintenance of water, gas and electricity networks; rail renewals; street and public space management, operation and maintenance.
• Infrastructure investments: A portfolio of long term (Public Private Partnership ('PPP') concessions in the United Kingdom, primarily in the education, health and roads/street lighting sectors.
Not really in stadium construction.
You may well be right, but they did build the London Aquatic centre, I remember it well as one of my sons worked on it, as a Balfour employee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Aquatics_Centre The company did have quite a restructure programme a couple of years ago, Luckily my son escaped the cull. This was largely due to loosing out on contracts, or so the staff were told at the time? .....although the demise of 'Carillion' may well have shown that to be a wise business plan. I asked my son who is also a CAFC fan, and although he is hardly rubbing shoulders with the higher management, he is thought to be a capable chairman, at least at the shop floor level so to speak......
One of the reason the Aussies went for Charlton was, according to my contact, the fact that we have a great stadium, good enough for the premier league. Whether they’re ambitious enough to think we might one day need to expand it or move I don’t know.
If Philip Aiken is to be our new chairman, why does his other job have anything to do with us. Because he is in construction it doesn't mean we are moving or developing the ground. How many chairmen of football clubs, with other jobs, bring their work together with football. This may be the thought of someone like Sunleys, who only bought us to develop The Valley. I believe that Aiken being Australian could be more important than he is in construction, but as I am not ITK, who agrees with my thoughts anyway, probably rubbish
You would struggle to find space on the peninsular now. Time has moved on and the Chinese developers are building housing and retail everywhere. Much more profitable than a stadium.
The Valley is landlocked by narrow roads and the railway. Any alternative use would be limited by this.
One further point this is what Balfour Beatty do
• Construction services: Design, construction management, refurbishment and fit out, mechanical and electrical services, civil engineering, ground engineering and rail engineering.
• Support services: Installation, upgrade and maintenance of water, gas and electricity networks; rail renewals; street and public space management, operation and maintenance.
• Infrastructure investments: A portfolio of long term (Public Private Partnership ('PPP') concessions in the United Kingdom, primarily in the education, health and roads/street lighting sectors.
Not really in stadium construction.
You may well be right, but they did build the London Aquatic centre, I remember it well as one of my sons worked on it, as a Balfour employee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Aquatics_Centre The company did have quite a restructure programme a couple of years ago, Luckily my son escaped the cull. This was largely due to loosing out on contracts, or so the staff were told at the time? .....although the demise of 'Carillion' may well have shown that to be a wise business plan. I asked my son who is also a CAFC fan, and although he is hardly rubbing shoulders with the higher management, he is thought to be a capable chairman, at least at the shop floor level so to speak......
If Philip Aiken is to be our new chairman, why does his other job have anything to do with us. Because he is in construction it doesn't mean we are moving or developing the ground. How many chairmen of football clubs, with other jobs, bring their work together with football. This may be the thought of someone like Sunleys, who only bought us to develop The Valley. I believe that Aiken being Australian could be more important than he is in construction, but as I am not ITK, who agrees with my thoughts anyway, probably rubbish
So Muir is on his way back to Oz, not because, as I had hoped, he had announced the sale of the club, but because he had to go back at this time.
In my last blog post on the subject I said:
‘It could alternatively mean that he intends to come back in two weeks in time, for the completion of the sale...’
I’m happy to stick with that @AFKABartram , so if I’m right can I I have my promote back please. Ta. [edit: winky emoji thing]
Things will hopefully progress in his absence, but with luck this will get concluded on his return, if not before, as I said. I imagine he may want to make the announcement himself, rather than have it leak out on CL (god knows why!). They were convinced it would happen last week, and I thought it might be a tad optimistic, but not by much.
At my ‘beer’ meeting my chap said two investors had to sign off on something, but that they had the backing, and the money wasn’t the issue. I believed him when he said that, so didn't ask further questions about it. I’m sticking with that.
The above are opinions of course, but most are based on impressions garnered at the beer meeting.
So let’s chill out and let events unfold now. I’m about to tip the leftover raspberry fool down the sink, and if anyone wants my recipe for the very nice beef and ale pie I made on Thursday, please let me know. Planning to make fish pie on Tuesday!
And I still have zero takers for the BBC Addicks, although I’m thinking of expanding it to BBBC Addicks with the inclusion of Brixton.
As said previously, thanks for sharing both your thoughts and insight @JamesSeed . It’s appreciated and I wish you wouldn’t take so much to heart, a lot of of it is tongue in cheek.
Personally I’m hopeful for the future but ultimately the position is no different for me from when it was being leaked around in September, nearly nine months ago, that it is ‘close’.
It stays at that status with me until the Club release a press notice saying ‘RD has agreed to sell the club, subject to EFL approval’, or if they skip that stage and announce the sale post EFL-approval.
Until that point, what ya man wants leaked out to you, the SLP, Airman etc are very enjoyable canapés, but it’s still not the main course.
My fear / suspicion is in two weeks time we’ll be calling the maitre-d over again and he will be saying it will arrive ‘very soon’.
As said previously, thanks for sharing both your thoughts and insight @JamesSeed . It’s appreciated and I wish you wouldn’t take so much to heart, a lot of of it is tongue in cheek.
Personally I’m hopeful for the future but ultimately the position is no different for me from when it was being leaked around in September, nearly nine months ago, that it ‘close’.
It stays at that status with me until the Club release a press notice saying ‘RD has agreed to sell the club, subject to EFL approval’, or if they skip that stage and announce the sale post EFL-approval.
Until that point, what ya man wants leaked out to you, the SLP, Airman etc are very enjoyable canapés, but it’s still not the main course.
My fear / suspicion is in two weeks time we’ll be calling the maitre-de over again and he will be saying it will arrive ‘very soon’.
And when the wisest of posts hit the nail on the head the rest can go home
As said previously, thanks for sharing both your thoughts and insight @JamesSeed . It’s appreciated and I wish you wouldn’t take so much to heart, a lot of of it is tongue in cheek.
Personally I’m hopeful for the future but ultimately the position is no different for me from when it was being leaked around in September, nearly nine months ago, that it ‘close’.
It stays at that status with me until the Club release a press notice saying ‘RD has agreed to sell the club, subject to EFL approval’, or if they skip that stage and announce the sale post EFL-approval.
Until that point, what ya man wants leaked out to you, the SLP, Airman etc are very enjoyable canapés, but it’s still not the main course.
My fear / suspicion is in two weeks time we’ll be calling the maitre-de over again and he will be saying it will arrive ‘very soon’.
[I take very little to heart. My tongue is often in cheek too. Must use more emoji things.]
We all clutch at straws Barters, it's human nature. Even the fact that they're very keen to visit the museum makes the pulse race, not just because it shows they're still in business, but also that they're either genuinely interested in the club's history, or know how important it is to make it look like they are. Such a change from the Meire years.
All this 'wait til the Club release a Press release' stuff is blather and you know it ;-) You'd be out of business if we did. If the Maitre d' is called into action, so be it. The speculation, intrigue, and debate is fun. If I didn't enjoy that aspect, I'd just stick my info on my blog, and announce it on Twitter. Where would we be without canapés?
And as I said, they're hardly going to want the announcement to be made on a fans' forum, no matter how popular it is, so in the meantime, bring on the speculation and the bullshit and the occasional nugget of info.
My Jack-Chi is suitably starved and ready to be let loose on Mr Seed.
Seriously though, if Muir flies back to the UK early we will all get excited again!
If he ’ever’ flies back to the UK we will all get excited again!
I doubt Mr Muir would be leaving Melbourne any earlier than next Sunday; next Saturday night is the annual Dreamtime at the 'G match between Essendon (the club which Mr Muir both supports and serves as a director) and Richmond (the reigning Premiers).
This is one of the big showpiece matches on the AFL calendar with 70,000+ expected at the MCG to watch two of the oldest and biggest AFL rivals, all wrapped up in a major celebration of the indiginous people and culture with spectacular pre-match ceremonies.
I don't support either team but it's an occasion that I wouldn't turn down a ticket for!
According to Colin Philip Aiken will be the new Chairman of Charlton. He was at the Valley yesterday.
Aiken was named as the chairman (of AFC) in the original Mail Online story in April 2017. The Mail story has proven pretty accurate, although they never identified Muir as involved. Can’t think who did. The only reason to think the Aiken chairman stuff may be untrue is that 1) it was suggested to me Muir would be chairman a few weeks back and 2) Aiken recently denied any continuing involvement - as @Curb_It has reported. I still think one of the guys in the directors’ box looks like a relative of Aiken.
You should, it was on the cover on Voice of the Valley : - )
That can’t be right. I don’t have any sources, apparently.
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But only when I was in my early teens.
The company did have quite a restructure programme a couple of years ago, Luckily my son escaped the cull. This was largely due to loosing out on contracts, or so the staff were told at the time? .....although the demise of 'Carillion' may well have shown that to be a wise business plan. I asked my son who is also a CAFC fan, and although he is hardly rubbing shoulders with the higher management, he is thought to be a capable chairman, at least at the shop floor level so to speak......
I absolutely agree.
It’s probably rubbish
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In my last blog post on the subject I said:
‘It could alternatively mean that he intends to come back in two weeks in time, for the completion of the sale...’
I’m happy to stick with that @AFKABartram , so if I’m right can I I have my promote back please. Ta. [edit: winky emoji thing]
Things will hopefully progress in his absence, but with luck this will get concluded on his return, if not before, as I said. I imagine he may want to make the announcement himself, rather than have it leak out on CL (god knows why!).
They were convinced it would happen last week, and I thought it might be a tad optimistic, but not by much.
At my ‘beer’ meeting my chap said two investors had to sign off on something, but that they had the backing, and the money wasn’t the issue.
I believed him when he said that, so didn't ask further questions about it. I’m sticking with that.
The above are opinions of course, but most are based on impressions garnered at the beer meeting.
So let’s chill out and let events unfold now. I’m about to tip the leftover raspberry fool down the sink, and if anyone wants my recipe for the very nice beef and ale pie I made on Thursday, please let me know.
Planning to make fish pie on Tuesday!
And I still have zero takers for the BBC Addicks, although I’m thinking of expanding it to BBBC Addicks with the inclusion of Brixton.
Personally I’m hopeful for the future but ultimately the position is no different for me from when it was being leaked around in September, nearly nine months ago, that it is ‘close’.
It stays at that status with me until the Club release a press notice saying ‘RD has agreed to sell the club, subject to EFL approval’, or if they skip that stage and announce the sale post EFL-approval.
Until that point, what ya man wants leaked out to you, the SLP, Airman etc are very enjoyable canapés, but it’s still not the main course.
My fear / suspicion is in two weeks time we’ll be calling the maitre-d over again and he will be saying it will arrive ‘very soon’.
And when the wisest of posts hit the nail on the head the rest can go home
The End
Seriously though, if Muir flies back to the UK early we will all get excited again!
We all clutch at straws Barters, it's human nature. Even the fact that they're very keen to visit the museum makes the pulse race, not just because it shows they're still in business, but also that they're either genuinely interested in the club's history, or know how important it is to make it look like they are. Such a change from the Meire years.
All this 'wait til the Club release a Press release' stuff is blather and you know it ;-) You'd be out of business if we did. If the Maitre d' is called into action, so be it. The speculation, intrigue, and debate is fun. If I didn't enjoy that aspect, I'd just stick my info on my blog, and announce it on Twitter. Where would we be without canapés?
And as I said, they're hardly going to want the announcement to be made on a fans' forum, no matter how popular it is, so in the meantime, bring on the speculation and the bullshit and the occasional nugget of info.
This is one of the big showpiece matches on the AFL calendar with 70,000+ expected at the MCG to watch two of the oldest and biggest AFL rivals, all wrapped up in a major celebration of the indiginous people and culture with spectacular pre-match ceremonies.
I don't support either team but it's an occasion that I wouldn't turn down a ticket for!
Maybe.
I'm sure @Henry Irving will give me a glowing reference!
Ha, still love us.