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Peter Varney asking for big crowd for Brighton match (Potential Buyers?)

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  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,482



  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,300
    carly burn said:



    WOW
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I couldn’t finish ‘From Portacabins to Porto Captains’ it was rambling, predictable, unstructured and unreadable without even a nice turn of phrase from time to time. It read to me like a chancer riding a wave to make a few quid, like it was written by a groupie who would soon move on to the next flavour of the month.
    I’ve read posts by @Grapevine49 of this parish that are ten times better than a whole book written by Mr Collins.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,383
    Who is mick collins?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    Journalist.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,482
    Covered End said:
    Journalist.
    You're thinking of his brother patrick.
    Mick is a scriptwriter.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    carly burn said:
    Covered End said:
    Journalist.
    You're thinking of his brother patrick.
    Mick is a scriptwriter.
    Patrick is his father not brother.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    Mick Collins is a freelance journalist whose writing has featured in a number of national newspapers. He is the author of The Rise and Rise of Charlton Athletic and lives in South East London with his wife and two daughters
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,383
    edited December 2022
    He was on Apollo-11, right ?
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 935
    KiwiValley said:
    He wa son Apollo -11 right ?
    Yeah. Obviously still bitter about not having made it onto the moons surface.

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  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,644
    I will never trust anything again - 

    We have been a joke for 15 years - 

    False dawn after false dawn - we are very luck to even be in business - 

    I hold zero hope and I hate everyone -

    (Turns out the light and leaves) 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,914
    Mick Collins is like Larry Hagman - a name fused together from Larry Holmes and Marvin Hagler, designed to confuse 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,240
    seth plum said:
    I couldn’t finish ‘From Portacabins to Porto Captains’ it was rambling, predictable, unstructured and unreadable without even a nice turn of phrase from time to time. It read to me like a chancer riding a wave to make a few quid, like it was written by a groupie who would soon move on to the next flavour of the month.
    I’ve read posts by @Grapevine49 of this parish that are ten times better than a whole book written by Mr Collins.
    Must have another read of it over Christmas. 
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    mascot88 said:
    I will never trust anything again - 

    We have been a joke for 15 years - 

    False dawn after false dawn - we are very luck to even be in business - 

    I hold zero hope and I hate everyone -

    (Turns out the light and leaves) 
    Pretty much sums up where I am. I'm just about broken by it all and even if a new owner comes in and it all appears to be great and what we want I think the cynicism is so strong in me that it would take a fair while to get my trust back.
  • talalsrightfoot
    talalsrightfoot Posts: 228
    Heard recently that the lady who paints kids faces on match (didnt know we had it, i assume its a west stand thing) has stopped as she was asked by club to accept her rates from 2013.

    Not the biggest issue in the world but indictive of where we are.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,004
    colthe3rd said:
    mascot88 said:
    I will never trust anything again - 

    We have been a joke for 15 years - 

    False dawn after false dawn - we are very luck to even be in business - 

    I hold zero hope and I hate everyone -

    (Turns out the light and leaves) 
    Pretty much sums up where I am. I'm just about broken by it all and even if a new owner comes in and it all appears to be great and what we want I think the cynicism is so strong in me that it would take a fair while to get my trust back.
    Yep feel similar.
    I find it hard to believe that a credible owner with honourable intentions would want to buy a struggling debt ridden third division football club, 
    Fees like it’ll be a wrong’un, someone with bugger all money, someone who wants to use the club (like the network thing mentioned) - or all three. 
    A mega rich Charlton fan (or fans) feels like the only way we make a comeback.

  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,874
    And Guess which "philosopher" said that...

    Jim Davidson 

    And people say he just a massive prick 
  • redbuttle
    redbuttle Posts: 1,985
    Dave2l said:
    And Guess which "philosopher" said that...

    Jim Davidson 

    And people say he just a massive prick 
    I don't....

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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,201
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    I wonder what is behind Collins's disdain.
    Don't come across many Charlton fans with a bad word to say about Peter Varney.
    Peter was okay but the Messiah he was not. I had a few issues with him back in the day. There were a number of things he could have handled much, much better than he did.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,874
    I can't say I have an opinion on Jim Davidson.

    A bloke that just tells jokes and supports Charlton. Not an awful lot wrong with that
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,841
    Dave2l said:
    And Guess which "philosopher" said that...

    Jim Davidson 

    And people say he just a massive prick 
    Don’t worry mate I got it!
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,757
    I am getting tired of it all. Varney must have a reason for asking us to attend this game so we just need to block out the noise and indeed doubts and give it a go. In all honesty, I don't enjoy watching my team as it is generally an experience that makes me angry. I'm a Charlton fan, I don't demand too much but what we have had for quite a few years now is not good enough. 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I was always going to go way before the Varney shenanigans. And way before the possible takeover shenanigans.
    Something will happen to make me abandon everything, but I don’t know what and when, but right now that moment is getting closer.
    I am weary of it all, and have little fight left in me.
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 1,772
    Sad to see the apathy is setting in. Keep the faith all. Without the fans there is no Charlton Athletic. Charlton has been going all these years because the club matters, it makes a difference. It isn't the owners club, it belongs to the fans we are the beating heart.
    There will be a brighter day, we've been blessed before, we will again. The dark times only make the good times brighter. COYA!
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,979
    Richard J said:
    carly burn said:
    Covered End said:
    Journalist.
    You're thinking of his brother patrick.
    Mick is a scriptwriter.
    Patrick is his father not brother.
    What about his sister and mother?
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,874
    paulsturgess said:
    Dave2l said:
    And Guess which "philosopher" said that...

    Jim Davidson 

    And people say he just a massive prick 
    Don’t worry mate I got it!

    Haha. Dolly Parton might help 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,201
    Amazing exchange. I can’t imagine what the backstory is. 
    Just when you think you’ve seen it all two of the grown ups have a tear up over Jim Davison and Teddy Roosevelt. 
  • Ducktapeshoerepairs
    Ducktapeshoerepairs Posts: 971
    This is a good home cup game and Varney’s plea aside, is it really that difficult for people to pay £15 to go to a home cup game? This is a site for football  fans right, isn’t that what football fans do ? Why so difficult to attend a reasonably priced home cup game ffs 

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