- as well as the asbestos issue, She said theirs 'potential' in Jimmy Seed stand. This worried me.
This worries me too, was chatting to someone today that has my respect in that what they're saying isn't just hearsay, but that C Parkes confirmed there's plans for the South Stand and that when asked he didn't dismiss the talk of flats, eek.
- as well as the asbestos issue, She said theirs 'potential' in Jimmy Seed stand. This worried me.
This worries me too, was chatting to someone today that has my respect in that what they're saying isn't just hearsay, but that C Parkes confirmed there's plans for the South Stand and that when asked he didn't dismiss the talk of flats, eek.
My take on this is he's got previous for doing this at other clubs he owns. It is completely the type of thing he wants to do, and you can bet that if he can do it he will.
My take on this is he's got previous for doing this at other clubs he owns. It is completely the type of thing he wants to do, and you can bet that if he can do it he will.
- as well as the asbestos issue, She said theirs 'potential' in Jimmy Seed stand. This worried me.
This worries me too, was chatting to someone today that has my respect in that what they're saying isn't just hearsay, but that C Parkes confirmed there's plans for the South Stand and that when asked he didn't dismiss the talk of flats, eek.
Building flats in the corners of the Jimmy Seed Stand? Surely this isn't the reason they've conveniently cleared the adjacent East and West stand sections? No, they wouldn't spin up safety issues to cover their subterfuge would they?
Whatever they say they will be doing it for the best of the club.
I have mentioned before that his club St Truiden is so awful in it's architecture and design it is almost as if the building has been established to actively drive fans away. If Roland is salivating about sweating the asset of the South Stand I bet it happens quicker than the training ground. Seriously St Truidens ground makes Dartford's Princes Park seem like the San Siro.
My take on this is he's got previous for doing this at other clubs he owns. It is completely the type of thing he wants to do, and you can bet that if he can do it he will.
Exactly, this is very worrying times...
But STILL there are fans that put their fingers in their ears, singing "la la la " ad infinitum whilst others use their time , energy & cash finding ways to fight the vermin's fiendish plans...
Ask Coventry fans if they wish they'd been more proactive before it was too late.
All the way through she looked like she was disinterested, annoyed and quite frankly bored. I didn't think it would be possible but my opinion of her is even less after meeting her.
If she's still there next year, we're in huge trouble
Disturbingly I can see no reason why the utterly dreadful woman will not be here come August. Same goes for her grinning puppet Robinson who celebrated the first goal by looking straight up at the directors' box and punching the air. He knows who he has to keep sweet.
- as well as the asbestos issue, She said theirs 'potential' in Jimmy Seed stand. This worried me.
This worries me too, was chatting to someone today that has my respect in that what they're saying isn't just hearsay, but that C Parkes confirmed there's plans for the South Stand and that when asked he didn't dismiss the talk of flats, eek.
Building flats in the corners of the Jimmy Seed Stand? Surely this isn't the reason they've conveniently cleared the adjacent East and West stand sections? No, they wouldn't spin up safety issues to cover their subterfuge would they?
Whatever they say they will be doing it for the best of the club.
Now, where's my medication.
I honestly didn't think of that. Have a horrible feeling you may be right but hopefully the planning permission will either fall through or, based on their training ground scheme, will take 20 years to go through. Hopefully by then they would have long gone!
She believes as she is remunerated as a CEO and not a director it doesn't need to be disclosed. We'll check that out.
From a brief check if all directors remuneration is under £200k it doesn't need to be...
The £200k threshold, if not breached, appears to mean that the individual highest paid director's remuneration need not be disclosed.
My reading is that the total directors' remuneration still has to be disclosed - and since Meire is almost certainly the only paid director the exemption won't help her, even if she falls below the threshold.
In any case, the accounts do disclose that remuneration - as zero.
I took from the way it has been worded that they might argue she is paid as chief executive and not as a director but the legislation I've seen does not appear to accommodate such a transparent dodge.
For avoidance of doubt, all of Waggott, Kavanagh and Prothero had their pay disclosed in the accounts.
Clearly they got this past the auditors so they must have an argument, but the law is there for a reason. I see no reason she shouldn't have to comply with it and every reason to embarrass her if the club is breaking it to protect her from the scrutiny it enables.
Otherwise it might as well be argued the club shouldn't have to publish any other individual aspect of its accounts if it didn't feel like it.
To be honest, it's Roland's money to fritter. The club recently advertised for a painter with a whopping 8 pounds an hour zero hours contract. If Katrien is earning more than that, it's too much. In fact for the damage she has done, I would hope for simply hsving zero hours.
I have mentioned before that his club St Truiden is so awful in it's architecture and design it is almost as if the building has been established to actively drive fans away. If Roland is salivating about sweating the asset of the South Stand I bet it happens quicker than the training ground. Seriously St Truidens ground makes Dartford's Princes Park seem like the San Siro.
Edit and apology. JIMMY SEED STAND
I went to the pre-season game there in 2015.
If you did not know this was the ground you could have carried on walking past thinking it was a retail unit with offices and restaurants.
This is not simply a disillusioned anti regimer talking for the sake of a rant but I have to say that the St Truiden stadium is without doubt the most sterile god awful place you could imagine......absolutely dreadful. I wouldn't let that bastard Duchatalet within a thousand miles of a planning committee......if the story is true, then GREENWICH COUNCIL BEWARE!!!
Quick summary - - South Stand is safe. It has asbestos in roof so IF that is taken down / the stand altered there would be safety issues around the asbestos. - She loves the club and loves working for Charlton so she doesn't want to leave. - They've learnt from mistakes (again). - We will lose money whether in this league or the Champs (most depressing part for me - we're screwed no matter what). - The debt doesn't matter (including interest) as we're not paying it and Roland knows he won't get it back. We therefore suggested he write off the debt, that was avoided and then the meeting ended. - We have new tick-boxes for signing players. There are 6 criteria players have to meet (but as long as they meet 4 we'll buy them). We actually now call old bosses / physios etc. to make sure the players are what they say on the tin (wonder what we used to do, just hope?) Karl knows League 1 and what type of player it will take to get out. And lastly an agreement that players weren't trying hard enough / the players bought didn't care.
That's a rough and ready summary. Personally - more depressed after hearing that than before I went in!
To be fair, I love doing the deals and for the first time this summer I worked alongside an English manager and I could see what an advantage that is in the game having much more contacts. When I negotiate a deal with another chief executive or with the board or the owner and then Russell would phone the manager and asked if this would happen. I think that’s why we were so successful in recruiting players this summer because from both angles we could put pressure on making the deals happen. I think we have the experience and the team to successfully recruit players.
Katrien Meire at the TalkSport interview with Jim White!
This is not simply a disillusioned anti regimer talking for the sake of a rant but I have to say that the St Truiden stadium is without doubt the most sterile god awful place you could imagine......absolutely dreadful. I wouldn't let that bastard Duchatalet within a thousand miles of a planning committee......if the story is true, then GREENWICH COUNCIL BEWARE!!!
Seriously guys. This this and this a zillion times over.
All the way through she looked like she was disinterested, annoyed and quite frankly bored.
That sentence could easily have come from the previous QandA (Southend). She is certainly annoyed that she is duty bound to appear before fans where she has to face questions about her accountability for failings that she does not recognise as such (especially when RD is evidendtly telling her she is doing a good job).
I guess the sub-plot to that is that we are all stupid because we cannot see what Roland is seeing.
She will also try to find one 'positive' and return to it again and again throughout the meeting. This time it was apparently the training ground - last time it was the new website.
If TR has tried to get her to engage properly with fans at these QandAs he has failed miserably. She clearly doesn't want to be there and treats difficult questions as is they are something divorced from her stewardship but which in any event have been successfully answered before.
I was furious coming out of the pre-Southend QandA and those feelings have just erupted again.
The woman simply fails to understand the levels of damage she is inflicting on this club whilst purporting to 'live and breath' Charlton Athletic. Can't go on without punching the screen.
She was asked if there had been any work whatsoever on looking at alternative uses for any part of The Valley and her first words in response were something like 'nothing concrete' she then moved on to talk about the training ground and putting a roof on the concourse of the East Stand.
She was also asked whether there was ever a scenario she could see where the club was sold and ground retained by RD and her response was along the lines of 'that is not on the agenda so I won't answer'
Overall she looked nervous and not happy to be there (not really surprising as it was never going to be an easy audience).
I do think her salary is a non-issue, it's a private company and therefore up to them as to whether they release that information. Personally I would take the same stance as her in the situation and I found that line of questioning a little uncomfortable because of that, but that is just me!
Oh and as for Tony Keohone, (I think that is how it is spelt) he did not come across at all well to me, I really hope he does not have much influence or pay !
She was asked if there had been any work whatsoever on looking at alternative uses for any part of The Valley and her first words in response were something like 'nothing concrete' she then moved on to talk about the training ground and putting a roof on the concourse of the East Stand.
She was also asked whether there was ever a scenario she could see where the club was sold and ground retained by RD and her response was along the lines of 'that is not on the agenda so I won't answer'
Overall she looked nervous and not happy to be there (not really surprising as it was never going to be an easy audience).
I do think her salary is a non-issue, it's a private company and therefore up to them as to whether they release that information. Personally I would take the same stance as her in the situation and I found that line of questioning a little uncomfortable because of that, but that is just me!
Oh and as for Tony Keohone, (I think that is how it is spelt) he did not come across at all well to me, I really hope he does not have much influence or pay !
Oi you lot those of us that are blindly hoping they are off soon don't like to be reminded how unlikely it is and what they intend to force upon us next.
Where can I order a bunker? I need to wait this lot out like the fallout from anow atomic bomb..........hopefully they don't last as long.
She was asked if there had been any work whatsoever on looking at alternative uses for any part of The Valley and her first words in response were something like 'nothing concrete' she then moved on to talk about the training ground and putting a roof on the concourse of the East Stand.
She was also asked whether there was ever a scenario she could see where the club was sold and ground retained by RD and her response was along the lines of 'that is not on the agenda so I won't answer'
Overall she looked nervous and not happy to be there (not really surprising as it was never going to be an easy audience). I do think her salary is a non-issue, it's a private company and therefore up to them as to whether they release that information. Personally I would take the same stance as her in the situation and I found that line of questioning a little uncomfortable because of that, but that is just me!
Oh and as for Tony Keohone, (I think that is how it is spelt) he did not come across at all well to me, I really hope he does not have much influence or pay !
It's not. It's the law. Do you think any of her predecessors wanted their salary disclosed, or that people working in other private companies do?
Mind you, she's done so much damage that Charlton will soon be exempt - reclassified as a "small business" instead of a medium-sized one.
Clearly if it is against the law it is an issue but I suspect there are a number of loopholes which can be exploited by a cleaver accountant and that is what will have happened here.
Clearly if it is against the law it is an issue but I suspect there are a number of loopholes which can be exploited by a cleaver accountant and that is what will have happened here.
Odd really it never occurred to the clever accountant who was himself chief executive and had to disclose his salary then. Joyes v Kavanagh would be a rather one-sided contest, I think.
Joyce's is not our accountant though. You can see who that is by seeing who it was Who signed them off and then googling the company and him. He seems of reasonable pedigree and I would be surprised if someone like that would put his name to something not legal.
She was asked if there had been any work whatsoever on looking at alternative uses for any part of The Valley and her first words in response were something like 'nothing concrete' she then moved on to talk about the training ground and putting a roof on the concourse of the East Stand.
She was also asked whether there was ever a scenario she could see where the club was sold and ground retained by RD and her response was along the lines of 'that is not on the agenda so I won't answer'
Overall she looked nervous and not happy to be there (not really surprising as it was never going to be an easy audience).
I do think her salary is a non-issue, it's a private company and therefore up to them as to whether they release that information. Personally I would take the same stance as her in the situation and I found that line of questioning a little uncomfortable because of that, but that is just me!
Oh and as for Tony Keohone, (I think that is how it is spelt) he did not come across at all well to me, I really hope he does not have much influence or pay !
Her salary and terms of employment are definitely an issue. Her employment seems deliberately set up to conceal it. She is a director, but receives zero remuneration for that position. She is supposedly the CEO of Charlton but her salary doesn't appear anywhere in the company accounts. I can only assume she is a Staprix employee, sub-contracted to provide management services (badly!) to Charlton Athletic.
It is a pretty poor example of corporate governance when the only directors are the sole 100% shareholder, an employee entirely dependent on the patronage of the 100% shareholder and a desperate hanger-on waiting for a £4m pay-off. No accountability whatsoever.
She was asked if there had been any work whatsoever on looking at alternative uses for any part of The Valley and her first words in response were something like 'nothing concrete' she then moved on to talk about the training ground and putting a roof on the concourse of the East Stand.
She was also asked whether there was ever a scenario she could see where the club was sold and ground retained by RD and her response was along the lines of 'that is not on the agenda so I won't answer'
Overall she looked nervous and not happy to be there (not really surprising as it was never going to be an easy audience).
I do think her salary is a non-issue, it's a private company and therefore up to them as to whether they release that information. Personally I would take the same stance as her in the situation and I found that line of questioning a little uncomfortable because of that, but that is just me!
Oh and as for Tony Keohone, (I think that is how it is spelt) he did not come across at all well to me, I really hope he does not have much influence or pay !
Her salary and terms of employment are definitely an issue. Her employment seems deliberately set up to conceal it. She is a director, but receives zero remuneration for that position. She is supposedly the CEO of Charlton but her salary doesn't appear anywhere in the company accounts. I can only assume she is a Staprix employee, sub-contracted to provide management services (badly!) to Charlton Athletic.
It is a pretty poor example of corporate governance when the only directors are the sole 100% shareholder, an employee entirely dependent on the patronage of the 100% shareholder and a desperate hanger-on waiting for a £4m pay-off. No accountability whatsoever.
She definitely 'said' she was employed by Charlton, and that her salary appears in the accounts (but lumped in with everyone else).
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Whatever they say they will be doing it for the best of the club.
Now, where's my medication.
If Roland is salivating about sweating the asset of the South Stand I bet it happens quicker than the training ground.
Seriously St Truidens ground makes Dartford's Princes Park seem like the San Siro.
Edit and apology.
JIMMY SEED STAND
Ask Coventry fans if they wish they'd been more proactive before it was too late.
JIMMY SEED STAND
JIMMY SEED STAND
JIMMY SEED STAND
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Got it yet?
My reading is that the total directors' remuneration still has to be disclosed - and since Meire is almost certainly the only paid director the exemption won't help her, even if she falls below the threshold.
In any case, the accounts do disclose that remuneration - as zero.
I took from the way it has been worded that they might argue she is paid as chief executive and not as a director but the legislation I've seen does not appear to accommodate such a transparent dodge.
For avoidance of doubt, all of Waggott, Kavanagh and Prothero had their pay disclosed in the accounts.
Clearly they got this past the auditors so they must have an argument, but the law is there for a reason. I see no reason she shouldn't have to comply with it and every reason to embarrass her if the club is breaking it to protect her from the scrutiny it enables.
Otherwise it might as well be argued the club shouldn't have to publish any other individual aspect of its accounts if it didn't feel like it.
If you did not know this was the ground you could have carried on walking past thinking it was a retail unit with offices and restaurants.
I wouldn't let that bastard Duchatalet within a thousand miles of a planning committee......if the story is true, then GREENWICH COUNCIL BEWARE!!!
Katrien Meire at the TalkSport interview with Jim White!
This this and this a zillion times over.
All the way through she looked like she was disinterested, annoyed and quite frankly bored.
That sentence could easily have come from the previous QandA (Southend). She is certainly annoyed that she is duty bound to appear before fans where she has to face questions about her accountability for failings that she does not recognise as such (especially when RD is evidendtly telling her she is doing a good job).
I guess the sub-plot to that is that we are all stupid because we cannot see what Roland is seeing.
She will also try to find one 'positive' and return to it again and again throughout the meeting. This time it was apparently the training ground - last time it was the new website.
If TR has tried to get her to engage properly with fans at these QandAs he has failed miserably.
She clearly doesn't want to be there and treats difficult questions as is they are something divorced from her stewardship but which in any event have been successfully answered before.
I was furious coming out of the pre-Southend QandA and those feelings have just erupted again.
The woman simply fails to understand the levels of damage she is inflicting on this club whilst purporting to 'live and breath' Charlton Athletic. Can't go on without punching the screen.
She was also asked whether there was ever a scenario she could see where the club was sold and ground retained by RD and her response was along the lines of 'that is not on the agenda so I won't answer'
Overall she looked nervous and not happy to be there (not really surprising as it was never going to be an easy audience).
I do think her salary is a non-issue, it's a private company and therefore up to them as to whether they release that information. Personally I would take the same stance as her in the situation and I found that line of questioning a little uncomfortable because of that, but that is just me!
Oh and as for Tony Keohone, (I think that is how it is spelt) he did not come across at all well to me, I really hope he does not have much influence or pay !
Where can I order a bunker? I need to wait this lot out like the fallout from anow atomic bomb..........hopefully they don't last as long.
Mind you, she's done so much damage that Charlton will soon be exempt - reclassified as a "small business" instead of a medium-sized one.
It is a pretty poor example of corporate governance when the only directors are the sole 100% shareholder, an employee entirely dependent on the patronage of the 100% shareholder and a desperate hanger-on waiting for a £4m pay-off. No accountability whatsoever.