Come and meet the Accrington owner on Saturday
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I like Andy Holt.
The fact that he's happy to spend pre-match in a pub talking to a group of Charlton fans rather than in the lounges with RM & TK says it all.26 -
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Had a decent chat with Andy on the train. Proper football man. Really excited about watching Accrington play at The Valley.
Really nice to know we are still seemed as a big club.4 -
Did Buck really say that? He can go buck himself. I'm off to Twitter to give Andy some support with that.Curb_It said:
Edit..more about Bruce Buck
Buck’s involvement with Chelsea began through his position as European head of the American law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.[3] Skadden Arps specialises in mergers, acquisitions and capital market transactions, and Buck had personally done legal work on a number of acquisitions for the Russian company Siberian Oil (Sibneft), through which he came to advise Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich, formerly the majority shareholder in Sibneft.
The £140 million acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of the London Stock Exchange-listed company Chelsea Village plc was his first experience of taking over a football club.[citation needed]
Andy Holt, proper football man, Bruce Buck (fill in according to preference)...
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Not even a named partner.0
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BBC London just ran @LouisMend very good interview with Andy Holt and @Weegie Addick on behalf of CAST. Weegie as fluent as ever, pressed all the right buttons. "Very interesting" was Phil Parry's verdict as she finished.11
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Will there be a write up anywhere of the Q&A / Interview?0
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Yes, will be on castrust site early next week and will link on here.ForeverAddickted said:Will there be a write up anywhere of the Q&A / Interview?
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Buck has always been a w****r. Instrumental in the poaching of Parker IIRC, and rewrote history to make Chelsea seem less vile.3
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I’ll play it again on Charlton Live tomorrow as wellPragueAddick said:BBC London just ran @LouisMend very good interview with Andy Holt and @Weegie Addick on behalf of CAST. Weegie as fluent as ever, pressed all the right buttons. "Very interesting" was Phil Parry's verdict as she finished.
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Would loved to have seen him after the game and asked him if he was happy with the way his team behaved today. That includes the management staff who were a disgrace too.10
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Very good point.Boughtonaddicks said:Would loved to have seen him after the game and asked him if he was happy with the way his team behaved today. That includes the management staff who were a disgrace too.
Maybe someone can ask him via Twitter/Facebook etc.3 -
Any feedback from those there?0
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The_President said:
Very good point.Boughtonaddicks said:Would loved to have seen him after the game and asked him if he was happy with the way his team behaved today. That includes the management staff who were a disgrace too.
Maybe someone can ask him via Twitter/Facebook etc.
perhaps it was a hard fought game and that's just what happened. I don't think tweeting him about their behaviour makes alot of sense what are you expecting him to say?2 -
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Yes, it was a v good event - listen to Charlton Live tomorrow for a report with write up to follow on CAST website. In the meantime on the beers/ wine after that result. Up the Addicks!AFKABartram said:Any feedback from those there?
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I thought their behaviour was one of the worst I’ve ever seen, so personally do think it’s worth asking.superclive said:The_President said:
Very good point.Boughtonaddicks said:Would loved to have seen him after the game and asked him if he was happy with the way his team behaved today. That includes the management staff who were a disgrace too.
Maybe someone can ask him via Twitter/Facebook etc.
perhaps it was a hard fought game and that's just what happened. I don't think tweeting him about their behaviour makes alot of sense what are you expecting him to say?
He is after all putting himself out there as some sort of expert in how to run a club and yet his team seem very unprofessional.3 -
Football is very tribal and you tend to defend your own. I think their behaviour fell short at the end of the game and they were lucky three more players at least did not get sent off. They may have deserved a draw, but you can make an argument either way for the penalty which means you can't really complain to much about it. It wasn't the biggest miscarriage of justice imaginable which the behaviour of some of their players suggested it was.0
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Football is an emotional game, but it can be argued that IF Bowyer punched a player in the tunnel afterwards then he was in the wrong.1
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Great owner. Shithouse team.0
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So no one on here was there other than Weegie?
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Quite a few from here, actually! Guess they have all been on the beers too...AFKABartram said:So no one on here was there other than Weegie?
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It was face to fist rather than fist to face.ElfsborgAddick said:Football is an emotional game, but it can be argued that IF Bowyer punched a player in the tunnel afterwards then he was in the wrong.
Not even a booking.6 -
You can hear this interview via this link - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06w5ry9 Just head to 19 mins and 45 secsPragueAddick said:BBC London just ran @LouisMend very good interview with Andy Holt and @Weegie Addick on behalf of CAST. Weegie as fluent as ever, pressed all the right buttons. "Very interesting" was Phil Parry's verdict as she finished.
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Oh come on. The tactics of his team have little or nothing to do with him. As has been said on another thread, Taylor makes a habit of fouling keepers at corners and generally winding up the opposition. In the last few weeks we have had two goals disallowed because of him fouling at corners.Boughtonaddicks said:
I thought their behaviour was one of the worst I’ve ever seen, so personally do think it’s worth asking.superclive said:The_President said:
Very good point.Boughtonaddicks said:Would loved to have seen him after the game and asked him if he was happy with the way his team behaved today. That includes the management staff who were a disgrace too.
Maybe someone can ask him via Twitter/Facebook etc.
perhaps it was a hard fought game and that's just what happened. I don't think tweeting him about their behaviour makes alot of sense what are you expecting him to say?
He is after all putting himself out there as some sort of expert in how to run a club and yet his team seem very unprofessional.
Curbishley signed Andy Todd, a player who was well known for being dirty and combatative with a disciplinary record to prove it, a couple of weeks after he was sent off for punching Graeme Stuart ( who was also sent off ).
Curbishley was also the manager when a bloke called Lee Bowyer played for us. He used to niggle away fouling the opposition for the whole ninety minutes. Later in his career he got sent off for punching a player on his own team! Recreationally he “ smoked “ and smashed up fast food outlets. Can you imagine what kind of team a bloke like that would put out if he ever became a manager?He would probably sign a striker who would accumulate eight yellows and a red card in little more than half a season. Taylor has clearly been a great success for us but part of that is how he annoys the opposition.
Even at this level, Accrington are a tiny club and have to “ compete “. It seems that Accrington will avoid relegation this year. They are being professional. If they overdo that then it is up to the referee to deal with it.
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However, Holt employs the coaches who utilise these tactics. If i owned a company and some of my employees caused embarassment/wrongdoing then i would want some explaining.
Shouldnt laugh but after the supporter accidently kicks Bielik in the nuts, Bauer looks at Bielik on the floor, then scans his eyes around obviously quizically thinking 'what the fuck has happened there?'
Another anecdote from yesterday, was after the pen went in and Grant peeled off to the corner, Cullen giving it large to one of their players at the edge of the box.1 -
As I said above Accrington are a tiny club with tiny resources but it seems quite likely they will escape relegation. The clubs that should be embarrassed are Plymouth and Bradford whose average crowds couldn’t fit in Accrington’s ground.The_President said:However, Holt employs the coaches who utilise these tactics. If i owned a company and some of my employees caused embarassment/wrongdoing then i would want some explaining.
Shouldnt laugh but after the supporter accidently kicks Bielik in the nuts, Bauer looks at Bielik on the floor, then scans his eyes around obviously quizically thinking 'what the fuck has happened there?'
Another anecdote from yesterday, was after the pen went in and Grant peeled off to the corner, Cullen giving it large to one of their players at the edge of the box.2 -
may I ask you if you are old enough to have been at the Battle of he Bridge, Chelsea v Charlton in 1989.? You remember Paul Miller? He was an arsehole of the first order, but he kept us up that day, and his ridiculous equaliser isn't what I'm talking about. He's a legend because of that game, as are all the players in a red shirt that day. Now ask a Chelsea fan who was there that day, what they thought.Boughtonaddicks said:
I thought their behaviour was one of the worst I’ve ever seen, so personally do think it’s worth asking.superclive said:The_President said:
Very good point.Boughtonaddicks said:Would loved to have seen him after the game and asked him if he was happy with the way his team behaved today. That includes the management staff who were a disgrace too.
Maybe someone can ask him via Twitter/Facebook etc.
perhaps it was a hard fought game and that's just what happened. I don't think tweeting him about their behaviour makes alot of sense what are you expecting him to say?
He is after all putting himself out there as some sort of expert in how to run a club and yet his team seem very unprofessional.
He was signed to do a job, and he did it. And when he overstepped the mark the following season, sent off for spitting, it was Lennie who got rid.
@The_President raises the analogy of a company boss, but a top boss also delegates to senior managers the responsibility for employees that SM has selected. So that means the buck stops with Accy's manager.
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Being a 'tiny club' doesnt give them the licence to deploy the tactics that they clearly used yesterday.Mametz said:
As I said above Accrington are a tiny club with tiny resources but it seems quite likely they will escape relegation. The clubs that should be embarrassed are Plymouth and Bradford whose average crowds couldn’t fit in Accrington’s ground.The_President said:However, Holt employs the coaches who utilise these tactics. If i owned a company and some of my employees caused embarassment/wrongdoing then i would want some explaining.
Shouldnt laugh but after the supporter accidently kicks Bielik in the nuts, Bauer looks at Bielik on the floor, then scans his eyes around obviously quizically thinking 'what the fuck has happened there?'
Another anecdote from yesterday, was after the pen went in and Grant peeled off to the corner, Cullen giving it large to one of their players at the edge of the box.4 -
I was at the talk - I think Andy Holt is a top bloke and had warm feelings towards AS after it; they're not so warm now after their players lost it and should have had enough sent off to get the game abandoned. Standing around giving a kicking to Taylor while he was on the floor was an utter disgrace. I understand why teams in Accrington's position are physical; Taylor winding them up doesn't excuse how they went about it yesterday.
That said, Andy Holt talks a lot of sense about how the game is run. In part, Accrington have to play the way they do because of their resources - same as Wimbledon, Rochdale, Oldham etc.8
