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  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Crusty54 said:
    J BLOCK said:
    7 new sales staff plus the COO plus Dan 

    That might be it or could be more, I don't know.
    So sales staff as opposed to the original post stating ticket office people. 
    The same thing?  Or were they trying to flog sub standard league 1 players?
  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,231
    edited June 2022
    Fumbluff said:
    Crusty54 said:
    J BLOCK said:
    7 new sales staff plus the COO plus Dan 

    That might be it or could be more, I don't know.
    So sales staff as opposed to the original post stating ticket office people. 
    What do you think the sales staff sell at a football club? Footballs?
    Hospitality, advertising and sponsorship.
  • paulfox
    paulfox Posts: 2,356
    edited June 2022
    cafcfan said:
    swordfish said:
    I think before jumping to conclusions as to whether UK employment law is being properly applied, it's worth mentioning that our Non-Exective Director, Leo Rifkind, works for Freshfield's, who specialize in many areas of international law.

    I'm not saying he's involved in the day to day running of the Club and is necessarily an expert in this field himself, but he'll probably know where to direct TS should the Sandgaard's seek his advice. I doubt they'd be 'winging it' as it were. 
    He doesn't anymore. Left 9 months ago. He's now an investment manager at Atai Life Sciences, whoever they are.


    Hmmm.

    Wonder why he's still listed as being in post on the OS....

    More less than positive information not for sharing with the fans ? 
    Tommy’s not on you’re Christmas card list anymore is he? 
  • BowSelecta
    BowSelecta Posts: 146
    Crusty54 said:
    Fumbluff said:
    Crusty54 said:
    J BLOCK said:
    7 new sales staff plus the COO plus Dan 

    That might be it or could be more, I don't know.
    So sales staff as opposed to the original post stating ticket office people. 
    What do you think the sales staff sell at a football club? Footballs?
    Hospitality, advertising and sponsorship.
    Correct answer is “pet memberships”
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    bobmunro said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Crusty54 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Dan Burke was the clubs Fans Liasion Officer, a role the club must have to be within the EFL rules. They may get around this by having the Fans Advisor (Lucy) cover that from the voluntary role
    I doubt that. Would think Fan Liaison Officer would be a proper paid role, or else it would be less than a box ticking exercise. 
    So they have made someone redundant when they will then replace them with someone else?
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens. 
    You can only make someone redundant if their job no longer exits. Their work can be incorporated into a new job description to appoint someone. Anyone being made redundant should be considered for other available jobs.
    That’s right. 

    If they have 2+ years service.
    Indeed. 
    But I can’t see how he could get away with sacking the fan liaison officer in order to make the role unpaid. The EFL wouldn’t accept someone doing it as a hobby type thing. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    JamesSeed said:
    bobmunro said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Crusty54 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Dan Burke was the clubs Fans Liasion Officer, a role the club must have to be within the EFL rules. They may get around this by having the Fans Advisor (Lucy) cover that from the voluntary role
    I doubt that. Would think Fan Liaison Officer would be a proper paid role, or else it would be less than a box ticking exercise. 
    So they have made someone redundant when they will then replace them with someone else?
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens. 
    You can only make someone redundant if their job no longer exits. Their work can be incorporated into a new job description to appoint someone. Anyone being made redundant should be considered for other available jobs.
    That’s right. 

    If they have 2+ years service.
    Indeed. 
    But I can’t see how he could get away with sacking the fan liaison officer in order to make the role unpaid. The EFL wouldn’t accept someone doing it as a hobby type thing. 
    Yes they do.
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,342
    JamesSeed said:
    bobmunro said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Crusty54 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Dan Burke was the clubs Fans Liasion Officer, a role the club must have to be within the EFL rules. They may get around this by having the Fans Advisor (Lucy) cover that from the voluntary role
    I doubt that. Would think Fan Liaison Officer would be a proper paid role, or else it would be less than a box ticking exercise. 
    So they have made someone redundant when they will then replace them with someone else?
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens. 
    You can only make someone redundant if their job no longer exits. Their work can be incorporated into a new job description to appoint someone. Anyone being made redundant should be considered for other available jobs.
    That’s right. 

    If they have 2+ years service.
    Indeed. 
    But I can’t see how he could get away with sacking the fan liaison officer in order to make the role unpaid. The EFL wouldn’t accept someone doing it as a hobby type thing. 
    It can be a volunteer doing the role 
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    swordfish said:
    cafcfan said:
    swordfish said:
    I think before jumping to conclusions as to whether UK employment law is being properly applied, it's worth mentioning that our Non-Exective Director, Leo Rifkind, works for Freshfield's, who specialize in many areas of international law.

    I'm not saying he's involved in the day to day running of the Club and is necessarily an expert in this field himself, but he'll probably know where to direct TS should the Sandgaard's seek his advice. I doubt they'd be 'winging it' as it were. 
    He doesn't anymore. Left 9 months ago. He's now an investment manager at Atai Life Sciences, whoever they are.


    Hmmm.

    Wonder why he's still listed as being in post on the OS....

    More less than positive information not for sharing with the fans ? 
    I think he meant he no longer works for Freshfield's, which I didn't know.
    That's right. As far as I know he's still non-exec director at Charlton.  (What's the difference between a Non-Exec director and a shopping trolley?  A shopping trolley has got a mind of its own but you get more food in a Non-Exec director.)  He is listed as "non-practising" so I assume he has not renewed his certificate and has left the profession.
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    Difficult without more information & context to know precisely what to make of this, but there’s something of a night of the long knives feel about it.
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  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,218
    edited June 2022
    JamesSeed said:
    bobmunro said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Crusty54 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Dan Burke was the clubs Fans Liasion Officer, a role the club must have to be within the EFL rules. They may get around this by having the Fans Advisor (Lucy) cover that from the voluntary role
    I doubt that. Would think Fan Liaison Officer would be a proper paid role, or else it would be less than a box ticking exercise. 
    So they have made someone redundant when they will then replace them with someone else?
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens. 
    You can only make someone redundant if their job no longer exits. Their work can be incorporated into a new job description to appoint someone. Anyone being made redundant should be considered for other available jobs.
    That’s right. 

    If they have 2+ years service.
    Indeed. 
    But I can’t see how he could get away with sacking the fan liaison officer in order to make the role unpaid. The EFL wouldn’t accept someone doing it as a hobby type thing. 
    Forest Green have their owner named as their SLO. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,218
    After today for anyone working at the football club, my guess they would be now more concerned what’s next and if their job is the next to go 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,885
    JamesSeed said:
    bobmunro said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Crusty54 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Dan Burke was the clubs Fans Liasion Officer, a role the club must have to be within the EFL rules. They may get around this by having the Fans Advisor (Lucy) cover that from the voluntary role
    I doubt that. Would think Fan Liaison Officer would be a proper paid role, or else it would be less than a box ticking exercise. 
    So they have made someone redundant when they will then replace them with someone else?
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens. 
    You can only make someone redundant if their job no longer exits. Their work can be incorporated into a new job description to appoint someone. Anyone being made redundant should be considered for other available jobs.
    That’s right. 

    If they have 2+ years service.
    Indeed. 
    But I can’t see how he could get away with sacking the fan liaison officer in order to make the role unpaid. The EFL wouldn’t accept someone doing it as a hobby type thing. 
    I doubt it’s his only role. 

    I assume the restructured team will see this assigned to someone else. 

    Let’s face it HR can organise this to suit them. It happens everywhere. 

    But what we don’t yet know is what TS has told the affected teams and how he intends to reorganise. 

    Maybe as blunt as not using as many staff as planned and scaling back. He may have jettisoned whatever Jockat set up. 

    It’s conjecture based on limited information. 
  • paulfox
    paulfox Posts: 2,356
    It’s a clusterfuck and has been so since the Danish egomaniac walked through the door.

    As soon as he got that fucking guitar out I knew we were in trouble.

    I am losing interest by the minute in the club, it just doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any longer with all this madness behind the scenes.

    Anyone who can’t see what’s going on right now at the club is simply in denial.

    Why can’t we just have a normal fucking owner?
    Just for a bit of balance here, I perfectly understand peoples concerns about the off the pitch situation.

    However for me personally, with the appointment of Garner, this is probably the most excited I’ve been going into a new season at this juncture in a while. This could of course all go in the gutter if we don’t continue to get some decent bodies through the door - but it does at the moment feel like recruitment mistakes of the past have been rectified and we have a clear plan that we are working towards.

    But the possibility of seeing an dynamic, forward thinking attacking Charlton far outweighs some shoddy shenanigans going on with the commercial behind the scenes side of the club (stuff which as an average fan wouldn’t even be recognisable to me on the most part if I didn’t go on social media).
    Yeah , but he got his guitar out!!!!!!!😤….. we still don’t know the facts surrounding today, would have thought more people would have spilled more beans. 
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    It’s a clusterfuck and has been so since the Danish egomaniac walked through the door.

    As soon as he got that fucking guitar out I knew we were in trouble.

    I am losing interest by the minute in the club, it just doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any longer with all this madness behind the scenes.

    Anyone who can’t see what’s going on right now at the club is simply in denial.

    Why can’t we just have a normal fucking owner?
    What is a normal owner? Simon Jordan? Darragh McAnthony? Murray? 
  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 4,496
    Very strange...this and rent arrears rumours. Perhaps our season tickets will be converted to Swindon in the Don Rogers stand !
    Rent was total made up rubbish.. 
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    edited June 2022
    Dazzler21 said:
    It’s a clusterfuck and has been so since the Danish egomaniac walked through the door.

    As soon as he got that fucking guitar out I knew we were in trouble.

    I am losing interest by the minute in the club, it just doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any longer with all this madness behind the scenes.

    Anyone who can’t see what’s going on right now at the club is simply in denial.

    Why can’t we just have a normal fucking owner?
    What is a normal owner? Simon Jordan? Darragh McAnthony? Murray? 
    John Berylson and Steve Parish to name two.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    JamesSeed said:
    bobmunro said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Crusty54 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JohnnyH2 said:
    Dan Burke was the clubs Fans Liasion Officer, a role the club must have to be within the EFL rules. They may get around this by having the Fans Advisor (Lucy) cover that from the voluntary role
    I doubt that. Would think Fan Liaison Officer would be a proper paid role, or else it would be less than a box ticking exercise. 
    So they have made someone redundant when they will then replace them with someone else?
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens. 
    You can only make someone redundant if their job no longer exits. Their work can be incorporated into a new job description to appoint someone. Anyone being made redundant should be considered for other available jobs.
    That’s right. 

    If they have 2+ years service.
    Indeed. 
    But I can’t see how he could get away with sacking the fan liaison officer in order to make the role unpaid. The EFL wouldn’t accept someone doing it as a hobby type thing. 
    Yes they do.
    Really? Disappointing. 
  • Let’s just go back to the Matt southall and co days shall we? 
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  • Let’s just go back to the Matt southall and co days shall we? 

    No let's not.  Why does it have to be so binary.  

    I've given two examples of normal chairmen who run their clubs sensibly and successfully above in Berylson and Parish.

    It doesn't have to be a choice between scum like ESI and the other circuses that have got their hands on our club over the past decade and what would pass as normal owners.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    It’s a clusterfuck and has been so since the Danish egomaniac walked through the door.

    As soon as he got that fucking guitar out I knew we were in trouble.

    I am losing interest by the minute in the club, it just doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any longer with all this madness behind the scenes.

    Anyone who can’t see what’s going on right now at the club is simply in denial.

    Why can’t we just have a normal fucking owner?
    Just for a bit of balance here, I perfectly understand peoples concerns about the off the pitch situation.

    However for me personally, with the appointment of Garner, this is probably the most excited I’ve been going into a new season at this juncture in a while. This could of course all go in the gutter if we don’t continue to get some decent bodies through the door - but it does at the moment feel like recruitment mistakes of the past have been rectified and we have a clear plan that we are working towards.

    The possibility of seeing a dynamic, forward thinking, attacking Charlton far outweighs some shoddy shenanigans going on with the commercial behind the scenes side of the club (stuff which as an average fan I feel wouldn’t even be recognisable to me on the most part if I didn’t go on social media).
    Providing it’s not a mirage.
  • Yann897
    Yann897 Posts: 1,530
    It’s a clusterfuck and has been so since the Danish egomaniac walked through the door.

    As soon as he got that fucking guitar out I knew we were in trouble.

    I am losing interest by the minute in the club, it just doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any longer with all this madness behind the scenes.

    Anyone who can’t see what’s going on right now at the club is simply in denial.

    Why can’t we just have a normal fucking owner?
    Just for a bit of balance here, I perfectly understand peoples concerns about the off the pitch situation.

    However for me personally, with the appointment of Garner, this is probably the most excited I’ve been going into a new season at this juncture in a while. This could of course all go in the gutter if we don’t continue to get some decent bodies through the door - but it does at the moment feel like recruitment mistakes of the past have been rectified and we have a clear plan that we are working towards.

    The possibility of seeing a dynamic, forward thinking, attacking Charlton far outweighs some shoddy shenanigans going on with the commercial behind the scenes side of the club (stuff which as an average fan I feel wouldn’t even be recognisable to me on the most part if I didn’t go on social media).
    Providing it’s not a mirage.
    Buying good players is a mirage ?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    It’s a clusterfuck and has been so since the Danish egomaniac walked through the door.

    As soon as he got that fucking guitar out I knew we were in trouble.

    I am losing interest by the minute in the club, it just doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any longer with all this madness behind the scenes.

    Anyone who can’t see what’s going on right now at the club is simply in denial.

    Why can’t we just have a normal fucking owner?
    Just for a bit of balance here, I perfectly understand peoples concerns about the off the pitch situation.

    However for me personally, with the appointment of Garner, this is probably the most excited I’ve been going into a new season at this juncture in a while. This could of course all go in the gutter if we don’t continue to get some decent bodies through the door - but it does at the moment feel like recruitment mistakes of the past have been rectified and we have a clear plan that we are working towards.

    The possibility of seeing a dynamic, forward thinking, attacking Charlton far outweighs some shoddy shenanigans going on with the commercial behind the scenes side of the club (stuff which as an average fan I feel wouldn’t even be recognisable to me on the most part if I didn’t go on social media).
    Providing it’s not a mirage.
    I don’t think you can have one without the other for sustainable success.  You can point to Powell under Jimenez and Bowyer under RD, but it wasn’t a blueprint for long term success.  

    Not to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm re: Garner, who I think is a good apt, all we’ve done so far is sign 3 out of contract players in League 2.  They, and the additional players we bring in under Garner may get us promoted, but I need to see it now before I believe it.  The last 2 years have been toilet.  Granted, TS inherited a shit show, and the amount of money he’s stuck in is very generous.  But I think that we have ongoing issues on the non playing side of the club that keep cropping up, we have an uncertain future on the playing side, albeit one that could possibly turn into dynamic, forward thinking, attacking football and I don’t think the 2 are a good combo for success 
  • cabbles said:
    It’s a clusterfuck and has been so since the Danish egomaniac walked through the door.

    As soon as he got that fucking guitar out I knew we were in trouble.

    I am losing interest by the minute in the club, it just doesn’t feel like it belongs to us any longer with all this madness behind the scenes.

    Anyone who can’t see what’s going on right now at the club is simply in denial.

    Why can’t we just have a normal fucking owner?
    Just for a bit of balance here, I perfectly understand peoples concerns about the off the pitch situation.

    However for me personally, with the appointment of Garner, this is probably the most excited I’ve been going into a new season at this juncture in a while. This could of course all go in the gutter if we don’t continue to get some decent bodies through the door - but it does at the moment feel like recruitment mistakes of the past have been rectified and we have a clear plan that we are working towards.

    The possibility of seeing a dynamic, forward thinking, attacking Charlton far outweighs some shoddy shenanigans going on with the commercial behind the scenes side of the club (stuff which as an average fan I feel wouldn’t even be recognisable to me on the most part if I didn’t go on social media).
    Providing it’s not a mirage.
    I don’t think you can have one without the other for sustainable success.  You can point to Powell under Jimenez and Bowyer under RD, but it wasn’t a blueprint for long term success.  

    Not to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm re: Garner, who I think is a good apt, all we’ve done so far is sign 3 out of contract players in League 2.  They, and the additional players we bring in under Garner may get us promoted, but I need to see it now before I believe it.  The last 2 years have been toilet.  Granted, TS inherited a shit show, and the amount of money he’s stuck in is very generous.  But I think that we have ongoing issues on the non playing side of the club that keep cropping up, we have an uncertain future on the playing side, albeit one that could possibly turn into dynamic, forward thinking, attacking football and I don’t think the 2 are a good combo for success 

    Let's face it re our signings so far there may be one, maybe two posters on here who actually know whether they are any good or not at this stage.  Most views are based on mere speculation from reading stuff on the internet and catching the odd glimpse of them perhaps. And hope/ optimism.

    Hopefully the players will do a good job and improve us but it feels a long long way from the Powell rebuild summer of 2011 and what followed that season at this stage.

    Still not replaced Washington for starters and are weaker up front for it at present than how we ended last term.



  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Can someone who knows what's actually happened do a precis of the actual situation?
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited June 2022
    Off_it said:
    Can someone who knows what's actually happened do a precis of the actual situation?
    A) We're all fucked, 

    Or ,

    B ) Everything is on the up,

    Or,

    C) Nobody has a clue really, but it's the close season, this is the internet and any old shit goes!
    Reckon it's something like -

    10% of A )

    10% of B )

    80% of C )

  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,623


    Not to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm re: Garner, who I think is a good apt, all we’ve done so far is sign 3 out of contract players in League 2. 
    One of which I'd a GK when we already had 2 here already. 

    Just over 4 weeks to go before the first game & our squad has hardly been improved. Unless either a seismic shift is made on recruitment& we suddenly bring in 3 or 4 quality additions or Garner somehow turns around a pitiful midfield into a goal scoring machine I fear the Championship may still be light years away. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,763
    edited June 2022
    Those transfers are coming. You’re mad if you think that’s all we’re bringing in. Those are just the ones we’ve able get done early and having three new faces has us ahead of most of the competition at this stage.

    Anyway, this isn’t the transfers thread but somehow it’s become the place for anyone who fancies a moan about anything to congregate for the day. We’ll see if that’s still the case tomorrow.