Slater denies offering Elliott chairman's role (SkySports link page 2)

Strange

"the board wish him well"

I fear another will be joining the leaving party

Can somebody please explain. I thought Slater was KCs representative and now KC has rportedly withdrawn his money - why is Slater stil chairman. I appreciate I am missing something but does anybody know what it is?

It wouldn't be up to Slater to offer Paul Elliott the job, would it? That would be the for the owners to do, not the current (on his way out) Chairman.

Davo55 said:

It wouldn't be up to Slater to offer Paul Elliott the job, would it? That would be the for the owners to do, not the current (on his way out) Chairman.

No, it probably wouldn't be up to him - but Slater has always been more of a spokesperson for the club than anything.

firstly, I can't see the Mirror making up a random story like that. We are not normally big enough to even warrant a mention so, imo, no smoke without fire. Secondly, doesn't read to me as if Slater will be around much longer no 'I'm Chairman and looking to remain so for the foreseeable future' so, once again imo, we will have a new Chairman sometime soon, if not Elliott then AN Other.

Interesting......

That Slater has denied this rumour when many others were ignored or not mentioned.


That its in the NS and not as far as I can see the SLP, the usual organ for CAFC semi-official news.


That this swift rebuttal begs the question of who leaked the news and why? Was the leak to scupper the idea?



And Dave Mehmet you can button it now. I've never tried to get in that pub : - )

perhaps they've realised the Newshopper is the Charlton paper...

To me, this has all the hallmarks of a leak from someone trying to gain the initiative or pre-empt something else, a bit like the Brown and Blair camps of old. MS has to promptly deny which is interesting. But why and who would use the Mirror, I can't remember anyone using the Mirror before? I reckon we need Bromley to bring forward its annual Murray Unminted evening.

Could it just be that we are denying a story which had a fairly prominent amount of space in the Mirror, a national newspaper, rather than the wall of silence that greeted a collection of rumours on here (no matter how near the truth any of them may have been / may still be).

Sounds reasonable to me, so apologies in advance for that! ;-)

Exactly why Many were saying it's odd and doesn't make sense

Not that Paul Elliott might not make a great chairman

Just how and why and by who

If you look at what slater said when discussing Varney and kav

It's just a reshuffle planned and fits with MS and TJ plans



Either someone is trying to shake the hornets nest to provoke a reaction

Or is someone is trying to let something out to see if we still have lose lips in the inner sanctum


One thing is for sure the whole place gets curiouser and curiouser

Here we go, we have lift off, this could reach 10 pages

Saga Lout said:

Yes, it's a bit surprising that the Mirror are reporting this, but maybe it's not because of us, maybe the interest is because the story involves Elliott?

And possibly a link there with the Mirror reporter, Darren Lewis who, to be very fair to him, has been quite complimentary to us in the past.

southamptonaddick said:

TelMc32 said:

Could it just be that we are denying a story which had a fairly prominent amount of space in the Mirror, a national newspaper, rather than the wall of silence that greeted a collection of rumours on here (no matter how near the truth any of them may have been / may still be).

Sounds reasonable to me, so apologies in advance for that! ;-)

Don't come on here with your "reasonable" assumptions.

Apologies southamptonaddick...I've had a glass of wine for lunch and moments of clarity tend to accompany glasses of claret!! I promise it won't happen again!!

;-)

guinnessaddick said:

TelMc32 said:

Saga Lout said:

Yes, it's a bit surprising that the Mirror are reporting this, but maybe it's not because of us, maybe the interest is because the story involves Elliott?

And possibly a link there with the Mirror reporter, Darren Lewis who, to be very fair to him, has been quite complimentary to us in the past.

southamptonaddick said:

TelMc32 said:

Could it just be that we are denying a story which had a fairly prominent amount of space in the Mirror, a national newspaper, rather than the wall of silence that greeted a collection of rumours on here (no matter how near the truth any of them may have been / may still be).

Sounds reasonable to me, so apologies in advance for that! ;-)

Don't come on here with your "reasonable" assumptions.

Apologies southamptonaddick...I've had a glass of wine for lunch and moments of clarity tend to accompany glasses of claret!! I promise it won't happen again!!

;-)

What won't happen again? The reasonable assumptons or having a glass of white?

Stick to the diet coke mate! Claret is red not white!! ;-)