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  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,063
    JessieAddick said:

    179 new posts overnight on this thread and I thought there was some sensational breaking news from the meeting revealed....

    exactly
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,358
    It's Friday morning now. Ready..?
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,769
    DealAddick said:

    Iain Liddle ‏@IainLiddle 2m

    Apologies to all @CAFCofficial fans waiting for the 'Meet the board' video on @CAFCPlayer. Technical gremlins. Will appear in the AM. #cafc

    Well, it's morning now, I'm watching episode *** of Breaking Bad and STILL no video !!!!

    How much more should we, the fans, the paying customers, have to wait ??????

    Feel a banner coming on .....

    :-)

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,769
    gilbertfilbert said:

    Norfolk_Addick said:

    Whos idea was it to announce it on Wednesday?

    Trying to communicate with the fans, the poor devils communicated too soon.

    Premature (e)communication ?

  • seriously_red
    seriously_red Posts: 5,741
    LoOkOuT said:

    seriously_red said:

    We don't have an IT manager at home but appear to be able to maintain uninterupted internet availability. Wonders of dongles and Virgin media. I worry that the CAFC back office today (& yesterday) is unable to prioritise and deliver the basics like a pitch, comms etc.

    Yeah cos providing a network for your Laptop and a couple of family iPads is the same as providing a network for an organisation the size of Charlton Athletic. And mowing your lawn every two weeks is like maintaining a professional football pitch.
    CAFC spend around £17M a year of which perhaps £6-7M is on the squad. It's a professional football club so I kinda expect the pitch, the promotional stuff and anything to do with a match day like floodlights to actually work - no excuses. Having a dongle providing 3G to a laptop costs about a tenner a month so yes it is exactly the same as a household or small business. And I expect there's a phone shop or PC world in Charlton so even if no dongle in the office then someone just shoots down the road and buys one to solve the problem.

    You are the "master administrator" of a site which has 2 million hits a month so I expect you know a lot more about IT than I do. If something goes wrong on this site then it gets fixed and you are doing this for free.

  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    But even I know that to use a dongle on business pc to overcome such an issue wouldn't work due to security settings otherwise the pc could be very exposed to virus and hacking
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,127
    edited January 2014
    so I expect you know a lot more about IT than I do
    So maybe, just maybe, Lookout is right??
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    DealAddick said:

    Iain Liddle ‏@IainLiddle 2m

    Apologies to all @CAFCofficial fans waiting for the 'Meet the board' video on @CAFCPlayer. Technical gremlins. Will appear in the AM. #cafc

    Must've got his desktop from Lidl ffs
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    I once had to use a 3g dongle for our network when the internet went down. We have adsl backup on a 100mb ethernet fibre nowadays. (I'm an IT manager for a small not for profit in reinsurance a membership co with about 30 staff)

    Could still go down though nothing is infallible.

    Also high quality video files are pretty big i wouldn't fancy uploading on a dongle but I guess its possible.

    Anyway not being critical, these guys are professionals trying to do their jobs. My only gripe is something like this shouldn't in my view be on a pay service.

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  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    LoOkOuT said:

    seriously_red said:

    We don't have an IT manager at home but appear to be able to maintain uninterupted internet availability. Wonders of dongles and Virgin media. I worry that the CAFC back office today (& yesterday) is unable to prioritise and deliver the basics like a pitch, comms etc.

    Yeah cos providing a network for your Laptop and a couple of family iPads is the same as providing a network for an organisation the size of Charlton Athletic. And mowing your lawn every two weeks is like maintaining a professional football pitch.


    Yeah and knocking one out a couple of times a week is like being the club physio...
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Just woke up. Anything?!?
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    razil said:

    I once had to use a 3g dongle for our network when the internet went down. We have adsl backup on a 100mb ethernet fibre nowadays. (I'm an IT manager for a small not for profit in reinsurance a membership co with about 30 staff)

    Could still go down though nothing is infallible.

    Also high quality video files are pretty big i wouldn't fancy uploading on a dongle but I guess its possible.

    Anyway not being critical, these guys are professionals trying to do their jobs. My only gripe is something like this shouldn't in my view be on a pay service.

    In my experience, a bad workman always blames his dongle, and if it ain't that, its his ethernet fibre
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,496
    It is going to be the anticlimax of the decade.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,320
    cfgs said:

    It is going to be the anticlimax of the decade.

    after all this build up how could it not : - )

  • redcarter
    redcarter Posts: 1,013
    That's 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,496
    Henry Irving said:

    cfgs said:

    It is going to be the anticlimax of the decade.

    after all this build up how could it not : - )

    Exactly they need to beef it up and have cheerleaders and a halftime show now, like the Super Bowl (not palARSE).

    In all seriousness I am just looking forward to our owner's mouth moving and words that are audible to the fan base coming out.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,240
    Let's think what gems could await us:

    "I was considering changing the team colours to match the Belgian international strip but Katrien haas told me you already play in red so that is ok'

    "I might change the club name to Charlton Muscle as that sounds manly and athletic. Oh wait a minute. "Athletic" sounds kinda athletic"

    Pass the woffles
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,129
    edited January 2014
    redcarter said:

    That's 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

    Yeah, I was cheesed off to have to read through all that dross in some slight hope that there'd be something of interest. Amended the title now, sorry it's too late for you though redcarter.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,212
    On the upside, to prevent this becoming an anti-climax Roland will have spent the night buying us a galactic. Like the time I forgot my wife's birthday, though in that occasion I got her a coat, not a footballer.

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  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 620
    Looking forward to it. Expecting a few cliches. Let's hope they have sorted out their Hayes 9600 smart modem.
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,590
    Has anyone managed to sleep a wink knowing the vid is late?
  • rambeau
    rambeau Posts: 63
    I'm very pleased this thread title was changed to warn about the first 11 pages not really involving meeting the board ...
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,934
    Use a mobile as a wifi hotspot... Job done
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,320
    edited January 2014
    My guess (no, I haven't seen the video) of what is covered

    Very happy to take over Charlton. Tradition, ground, fan base, glad to have RM on board - continuity and experience

    Lots of work to do Pitch, training ground, build on successful academy. Worse that we expected. Bring in new ideas and ways of doing things from business and abroad

    Ambitious, return to prem but not spend, spend, spend. Financial Fair Play, will use other clubs to strengthen Charlton, mutual benefits to all clubs, will have to be creative

    Want to stay up and will support the manager (vague non-committal statement leaving SCPs position up in the air)

    Fans very important, need them to back the team, great support in difficult times, future is bright.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,336
    But what about the beer?
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 3,002
    I gues he will say how pleased he is to own such a famous and community orientated club. Then he will explain he expects it to run on a sustainable buisness plan, and that there will not be major spending on bringing in players. That he will likely have to sell players to recoup money spent on buying the club including its debits.
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,813
    Nah, I think you've all got it wrong. It's clear to me that RD will go in depth as to the workings of his 11 goalkeepers on the pitch plan.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,496
    I think they are having to do another take as he has decided to sell, as he can't believe that nothing works in SE7.
  • SaySomething
    SaySomething Posts: 2,536
    'turn it off, turn it on again'

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