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NewsShopper Blog: Why Roland Duchatelet and Katrien Meire have proved Addicks fans wrong this summer

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,467
    I would partially agree with the article...but not the comments about Katrien, which are giving her FAR too much credit
  • Northstandpieeater
    Northstandpieeater Posts: 730
    Horses for courses one blogger writes the regime have proved people wrong in the newshopper whilst another writes a scathing piece in this months Football 2018. For me both articles were written from opposite view points and both taking their individual view point to the extreme. It would be nice in relation to both blogs that the regime was forgotten and the blogs written with a genuine viewpoint of how they see the season panning out. Top six for me and according to poll that seems to be the general consensus.

  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,428
    So BRAVO Katrien... For what... Letting the manager do his job and not saying anything herself publicly.

    Jeez, anyone have RD's number, I could do with 'overpaid CEO' on my CV and could do the above very easily.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Simply win and get promotion.
    Anything else is unacceptable abject failure.
  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    hudson-son-son said:

    Uboat said:



    It's either been written as a favour for her or it's someone who really hates the protests. Hard to believe it's a genuine viewpoint.

    First thought was a classic counter opinion article to get people seething and more clicks. Did make me laugh that even the most positive of articles only had us as playoffs...

    Just nonsense isn't it, I'm a little more quietly optimistic than last year but it's still an unbalanced squad with plug gap frees and loans with a lot of hope relying on players who haven't reached the heights people are projecting for them this year (our forwards to score more, Kashi to stay fit and the young guys to fit straight in and be consistent).

    Doesn't appear that they learn from mistakes, more just throw enough shit at a wall and hope some new approach sticks.
    In fairness they have learned from their mistakes. They are not dropping totally inadequate players from the Network into our squad. They are not appointing a 'mate' as manager that has no idea how to manage a British club and they haven't sacked Robinson and gave him a chance to build his own squad/team after a run of results that would have all the other managers sacked.

    In reality they made fewer mistakes last summer than in previous years and the club made strides forward while Slade was in charge. I suspect that Robinson has also improved both the quality of the squad and the atmosphere in the dressing room.

    However, the previous mistakes were so disastrous they would have struggled to perform as badly as that for long, even if they wanted to. All they have done now is what they should have done* at the very start and by waiting for so long they have made the club much worse off as a result. Even with them giving Robinson a chance to build a decent side I'm not convinced that we are even very likely to get out of this god forsaken division, something that we had done and moved on from by the time they got here.

    The suggestion that KM might be what our club needs just, literally, destroys any credibility that the author might have!

    * They shouldn't have needed to do any of this, of course as they shouldn't have sacked Powell in the first place!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Pay shed loads to a top top PR company for months , try tp trample on TRUE fans who criticize the tossers who have destroyed decades of work and thats the best they can do ? a "blogger writing bollox" Bravo Katie save the money on PR spend it on the team----o and fuck off tsking the poodles when u go
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,951
    Apart from a crowd congratulating a knight who has just jousted his way to victory, does anybody really say 'Bravo' any more?
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,859
    We will see.

    And if we do have a storming season it will be despite Duchatelet and Meire, not because of them.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,378
    edited August 2017
    Does Philip Marks even exist?

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,964
    kings hill addick said:

    AFKABartram said:

    This guy has been pushing a Katrien agenda for quite a while in numerous articles. You have to wonder whether it's either to generate a reaction, or there is an alternative agenda

    It wouldn't be the first time a blogger had been offered 'special treatment' to do the club's bidding.
    If that involves Sue Perks, that sounds like a threat rather than an offer.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,414
    So may people getting carried away with the idea of promotion like it has already been achieved. There's a lot of football to be played between now and then. We currently have 0 points on the board. I want us to get promoted as much as anyone but it could quite easily all come crashing down to earth.
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,758
    The Red Robin said:

    Does Philip Bacon even exist?

    I'm not sure but, there have been sighting rumours of him peering out of Daisy's ar$e.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    cantersaddick said:

    So may people getting carried away with the idea of promotion like it has already been achieved. There's a lot of football to be played between now and then. We currently have 0 points on the board. I want us to get promoted as much as anyone but it could quite easily all come crashing down to earth.

    This
  • Northstandpieeater
    Northstandpieeater Posts: 730
    cantersaddick said:

    So may people getting carried away with the idea of promotion like it has already been achieved. There's a lot of football to be played between now and then. We currently have 0 points on the board. I want us to get promoted as much as anyone but it could quite easily all come crashing down to earth.

    But that's preseason for you, isn't it better to get carried away and have your hopes dashed then not hope at all. Always better to be glass half full rather then glass half empty.
  • cafcwill
    cafcwill Posts: 1,299
    Northstandpieeater said:

    cantersaddick said:

    So may people getting carried away with the idea of promotion like it has already been achieved. There's a lot of football to be played between now and then. We currently have 0 points on the board. I want us to get promoted as much as anyone but it could quite easily all come crashing down to earth.

    But that's preseason for you, isn't it better to get carried away and have your hopes dashed then not hope at all. Always better to be glass half full rather then glass half empty.
    That glass smashed the moment they sold Yann, they've been trying to repair it with Duct tape ever since, and failing each time
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,414
    Northstandpieeater said:

    cantersaddick said:

    So may people getting carried away with the idea of promotion like it has already been achieved. There's a lot of football to be played between now and then. We currently have 0 points on the board. I want us to get promoted as much as anyone but it could quite easily all come crashing down to earth.

    But that's preseason for you, isn't it better to get carried away and have your hopes dashed then not hope at all. Always better to be glass half full rather then glass half empty.
    Yep and I'm one for getting carried away when it comes to predicting what will happen on the pitch.

    However to use this to justify the ownership have been proved right or have 'won' or even learned from their mistakes is ridiculous.

    Maybe there will be justification for saying they have changed and learned 9 months down the line. But right now it's a ridiculous idea.
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,592
    Full marks to Phil Marks!
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,731
    Whoever wrote that has no real understanding of the situation and how much shit the club is in.

    No mention of the debt that has been created by joke decisions by a joke owner and useless CEO, look where we are now in terms of position in the league and debt owed to where we were when they took over.

    Beggars belief that the any news worthy paper could run such an article without being paid to do so.

    I'll tell you what if Roland "forgives his debt to the club" and gets us back to where we were when he took over, I will forgive him.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,866
    Henry Irving said:

    Let's not judge them on what they done over the past three years but on what might happen over the next nine months

    Was genuinely thinking of starting a thread along thelse lines.

    You would have to have been living on the moon for past 3 years to not be aware of the actions that have caused the contempt many of us feel for the ownership.

    However working on the premise they're here to stay in the near term it would be interesting to critique the ownership and management of the club this season solely on events, actions and results this season...almost as if they just turned up this summer.

    Whilst I share the disdain of many for track record and material responsibility in the detioration with much of the club's fanbase sometimes judgement and objectivity can become clouded by these past events leading to a failure to appropriately recognise positivity and good things that may occur (understandable in the shadow of all the bad things they've historically bestowed on CAFC).

    Will be interesting to judge them and relative success or failure solely on what unfolds on and off the pitch this season. In 9 months if they're still here we may have an indication of whether they have learned the required lessons to make a success of this club or whether it's business as usual.

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  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    Bravo to KM for spending her time in DFS and Dubai and not interfering in team matters. Funnily enough, everything works better...
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,582
    AddicksAddict said:

    kings hill addick said:

    AFKABartram said:

    This guy has been pushing a Katrien agenda for quite a while in numerous articles. You have to wonder whether it's either to generate a reaction, or there is an alternative agenda

    It wouldn't be the first time a blogger had been offered 'special treatment' to do the club's bidding.
    If that involves Sue Perks, that sounds like a threat rather than an offer.
    And owners of other pro regime websites also get a treat here and there!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    After Norwich, and Djiksteel's showing Robinson was 'told' he couldn't sign a right back.
    Doesn't sound like a free hand to me.
  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,978
    edited August 2017
    The Red Robin said:

    Does Philip Marks even exist?

    Yes he does, I know him to say hello to.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,648
    edited August 2017
    Henry Irving said:

    Let's not judge them on what they done over the past three years but on what might happen over the next nine months

    You can't judge on what might happen though can you. I take it this was cheek in tongue?
  • BartleyPark
    BartleyPark Posts: 430
    Ridiculous PR nonsense. To think a fan wrote that is unimaginable and insulting.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,455
    Nah... fack em!
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,901
    edited August 2017
    HarryLime said:

    Lets just see how this season pans out.
    If you swap the names of Robinson for Slade and the names of Clarke,Fosu and Amos for Novak,Ajose and Rudd, it could well have been written a year ago.
    Maybe save the article as a template and knock one out again at the start of next season.

    Fixed that for you mate as the circus clearly turns the blogger on :smirk: .
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,737
    This article is the definition of cringe
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,277
    Even I would take this nonsense at face value, the author has taken a huge risk writing this before the window closes.

    RD wants his money back, and cannot get it by selling the club. So he will do what he did at Standard, flog the best players to pay off his loans.

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