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Squad List - 30th May
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An excellent post, @N01R4M. I, unlike most, have not shared the euphoria of promotion. I went to The Valley for the first time in a good while to see the Doncaster game and didn’t feel the right things. I saw the potential of this great club, I witnessed the amazing atmosphere but I didn’t feel part of it. I didn’t go to Wembley for that reason and I’m glad I didn’t. Yes, I leapt out of my armchair when Bauer scored but the empty feeling returned quickly enough.N01R4M said:An interesting discussion, with many valid points.
As a protester - both at The Valley and in Belgium - and a contributer to actions such as contacting sponsors, the FA, the EFL and the national media, I know we have got under his skin, and has reacted by calling us names such as vinegar pissers.
However, I have always felt his mismanagement of CAFC as a business has been entirely down to his incompetence and lack of understanding of what motivates his "customers", the fans, and has not - so far - been motivated by revenge.
I agree with @Weegie Addick that his exit strategy is governed by his ego - his need to be proved right in his original idea that football can be managed at a profit, and to be able to present himself to the other fish swimming in his small pond as a visionary genius.
At the outset it was reported that one reason for appointing KM as CEO was his belief that women kept a tighter rein on finances. Well, that may be true for competent women, but that is not a description anyone could apply to KM! At some point it appears he realised her management was losing him money hand over fist, and is now clearly intent on reversing that. Unfortunately, his ignorance of the football business, and the ways in which it differs frm selling electronic widgets, means he ends up being penny wise and pound foolish.
We can all see now is the optimum time to tie up a sale of the club, and that Bowyer & co. are a major asset of the business. Unfortunately, RD probably lacks the knowledge to appreciate this, and even if LdT has woken up & smelt the coffee, it is possible he lacks the balls to tell Roland what's what, for fear RD will shoot (as in fire) the messenger.
So where does this leave us, the fans?
At present there is little we can do, but if we reach 1 July with RD still the owner & contracts for Bowyer & co. still unresolved, I will be surprised if fan disquiet does not rise. If there appears to be a renewed taste for action - in England or in Belgium - there is then still time to plan protests for the new season.
As a fan of 50+ years, I don’t know where we go if this promotion is a disaster. I’m not sure there is any more energy for protests unless they come straight away if things go pear-shaped. And, have the protests worked? We may have got under his skin but that’s arguably all that’s been achieved. Do I want to get under Roland’s skin? Yes, I suppose I do but I’m not overly bothered. I just want the passion and management skill that Bowyer and the squad displayed last year to be seen in the boardroom.
RD, if nothing else, can be unpredictable. Maybe, there will be a competitive squad managed by Bowyer at the beginning of August. I am a doubter, but I would love to be wrong.1 -
Can somebody update the U23 section, there are several omissons I know of.0
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Goalkeepers
Dillon Philips 2021Right Backs Chris Solly 2020 Anfernee Dijksteel 2020 Centre Backs Patrick Bauer 2019 Jason Pearce 2020 Naby Sarr 2020 Left Backs Lewis Page 2020 Central Midfielders Joe Aribo 2019 Darren Pratley 2020 George Lapslie 2021 Albie Morgan Contract length not known Attacking Midfielders/Wingers Strikers Lyle Taylor 2020
Macauley Bonne 2022 - Signed for reported £200k from Clapton Orient on three year deal
Manager
Lee Bowyer 2020- signed one year contract for reported £400k PA
Updated on 18 June 2019 in expectation that whenever this updated a player signs4 -
Bump to help force a signing through soon.3
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Or an exit...if Lyle Taylor is revealed as a Palace player tomorrow, it's your fault!Scoham said:Bump to help force a signing through soon.1 -
Bonne signed from Clapton Orient ? Are you living in the past Henry? Too much time spent in that museum.0
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So 11 players if Aribo goes. 5 remaining from the Wembley starting XI. And rumours re Pratley and Dijksteel.0
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You can never spend too long in the Museumkillerjerrylee said:Bonne signed from Clapton Orient ? Are you living in the past Henry? Too much time spent in that museum.0 - Sponsored links:
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What about Toby Stevenson?0
