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Simon Francis: Charlton Shambles

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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,271
    LargeAddick said:

    Kap10 said:

    Seems like we are flavour of the month to get a pop, Francis, Varney, Sunday Supplement, The Late Show ....... just bore off!

    you forgot the Daily Fail, Evening SubStandard and Stuart Pearce. You begin to wonder if it's being orchastrated by person or persons unknown.

    Whom do you have in mind Large? And to what end?

  • Grapevine49
    Grapevine49 Posts: 1,000
    Prague

    I share LAs' view - No doubt more will be revealed at the appropriate time. There are just too many people behaving unprofessionally. When was the last time we had 3 articles in the national press within 8/9 days - The articles in The Mail were selective and unbalanced while snide and insulting in tone - Samuels & Collins are better writers than that.

    Then we have Mr Varney a Chief Executive of another football club at the behest of another investment house, coming perilously close to divulging confidential employee information. Such actions are very much out of character.

    For me to enunciate my speculative views on the motive and /or intent would be as inappropriate as some of the "pronouncements" of recent days. Maybe I just spent too many years around corporate politics but then again you do to recognize the signs of someone promoting a vested interest
  • seriously_red
    seriously_red Posts: 5,741
    Grapevine49 said:

    Prague

    I share LAs' view - No doubt more will be revealed at the appropriate time. There are just too many people behaving unprofessionally. When was the last time we had 3 articles in the national press within 8/9 days - The articles in The Mail were selective and unbalanced while snide and insulting in tone - Samuels & Collins are better writers than that.

    Then we have Mr Varney a Chief Executive of another football club at the behest of another investment house, coming perilously close to divulging confidential employee information. Such actions are very much out of character.

    For me to enunciate my speculative views on the motive and /or intent would be as inappropriate as some of the "pronouncements" of recent days. Maybe I just spent too many years around corporate politics but then again you do to recognize the signs of someone promoting a vested interest

    Now this starts to make sense. And you are wise not to speculate on the motive and intent. Such a shame that the results on the pitch are being so inconvenient by not fitting in with the parasites and xenophobic running this negative propaganda!
    All I want is for us to stay in this division and for our new owner to have the opportunity to do what it said on the brochure - keep the best and replace the rest.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,929
    PragueAddick said:

    LargeAddick said:

    Kap10 said:

    Seems like we are flavour of the month to get a pop, Francis, Varney, Sunday Supplement, The Late Show ....... just bore off!

    you forgot the Daily Fail, Evening SubStandard and Stuart Pearce. You begin to wonder if it's being orchastrated by person or persons unknown.

    Whom do you have in mind Large? And to what end?

    Prague, I have no one in mind and have not thought to what end if this is being somehow orchestrated. However, as Grapevine says, so much negative press is unprecedented especially when the media as a whole couldn't give a toss normally about anything outside the PL. It just all sit un easily with me for some reason.

  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,338
    LargeAddick said:

    PragueAddick said:

    LargeAddick said:

    Kap10 said:

    Seems like we are flavour of the month to get a pop, Francis, Varney, Sunday Supplement, The Late Show ....... just bore off!

    you forgot the Daily Fail, Evening SubStandard and Stuart Pearce. You begin to wonder if it's being orchastrated by person or persons unknown.

    Whom do you have in mind Large? And to what end?

    Prague, I have no one in mind and have not thought to what end if this is being somehow orchestrated. However, as Grapevine says, so much negative press is unprecedented especially when the media as a whole couldn't give a toss normally about anything outside the PL. It just all sit un easily with me for some reason.

    I am surprised that you are suprised. If CP had been sacked for bad results it would have been understandable. What most in football do not want to see is owners bullying managers into picking a team for obvious and understandable reasons and I will not insult you by explaining them.

    This has nothing to do with the new coach. It has nothing to do with being a Charlton supporter. It has nothing to do with your views on CP.

    It is quite simply wrong.

    It stinks.

    And this is why the press are all over the story. It is a wider issue than CAFC and I believe the issue has sullied our reputation.

    It has left a nasty taste in my mouth and increased my respect of Chris Powell.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,228
    Perhaps Francis knows that the word shambles (as in The Shambles in York) comes from the Middle English word shamel meaning "a place where meat is butchered and sold." In which case he's not far wrong.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Shambles 1 Bournemouth 0
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,380
    Redrobo said:

    LargeAddick said:

    PragueAddick said:

    LargeAddick said:

    Kap10 said:

    Seems like we are flavour of the month to get a pop, Francis, Varney, Sunday Supplement, The Late Show ....... just bore off!

    you forgot the Daily Fail, Evening SubStandard and Stuart Pearce. You begin to wonder if it's being orchastrated by person or persons unknown.

    Whom do you have in mind Large? And to what end?

    Prague, I have no one in mind and have not thought to what end if this is being somehow orchestrated. However, as Grapevine says, so much negative press is unprecedented especially when the media as a whole couldn't give a toss normally about anything outside the PL. It just all sit un easily with me for some reason.

    I am surprised that you are suprised. If CP had been sacked for bad results it would have been understandable. What most in football do not want to see is owners bullying managers into picking a team for obvious and understandable reasons and I will not insult you by explaining them.

    This has nothing to do with the new coach. It has nothing to do with being a Charlton supporter. It has nothing to do with your views on CP.

    It is quite simply wrong.

    It stinks.

    And this is why the press are all over the story. It is a wider issue than CAFC and I believe the issue has sullied our reputation.

    It has left a nasty taste in my mouth and increased my respect of Chris Powell.
    I think the various newspaper articles have been exaggerated, last night's team hardly suggested a yes man playing all RD's loan players?
    And while I'm not saying it's necessarily CP's fault, we are in a relegation scrap. If it had been Parky in the dugout, would people have been so supportive?
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,846
    @er.

    B- We won you lost.

    C- COYShambolicR!

  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,213
    Grapevine49 said:

    Prague
    The articles in The Mail were selective and unbalanced while snide and insulting in tone - Samuels & Collins are better writers than that.

    HAHAHAhaHa

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  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    JiMMy 85 said:

    Grapevine49 said:

    Prague
    The articles in The Mail were selective and unbalanced while snide and insulting in tone - Samuels & Collins are better writers than that.

    HAHAHAhaHa
    The Daily Mail in anti-foreigner article shocker.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,260
    So when the RD fanclub aren't lecturing people about not always looking for conspiracies they are busy unearthing a monstrous conspiracy against their new hero?
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Gurdianistas in anti foreigner shock
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,057
    not as shambolic as your right peg my son!
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,860
    Nominated for Championship player of the month.....
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,900
    Rothko said:

    Nominated for Championship player of the month.....

    Every dog has his day.
  • floydroadfaithfull
    floydroadfaithfull Posts: 4,778
    Rothko said:

    Nominated for Championship player of the month.....

    Who is?

  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,929
    thought he had a decent game at the valley for bournemouth ...he wasnt the worst right back ever to play for us ,unfortunate to be associated with a bad period we were going through at the time maybe hed be quite effective with us now with Lawrie right mid
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,177
    no doubt if he wins the award he'll put it straight in one of the stands
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,577
    Just picked up on some comments mid March. How ironic that some of those ridiculing the network critics or concerns are now putting forward a conspiracy theory of a campaign against RD.

    Complete and utter nonsense in my opinion simply because people ITK have concerns and opinions that don't support your own. I am surprised that this line hasn't been taken to task before.

    Things are looking better now we have had a few more points under our belt. Perhaps we can all cheer staying up next month and move on to being something like a normal football club once again and all largely pull together. I include myself in that comment.

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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Francis was the worst ever fullback we have had EVER

    He was the worst player I have seen absolute toilet


    Good luck to him at Bournemouth he ain't my concern anymore
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,300
    edited April 2014
    He smashed their POTY award yesterday. Always said there was a player in there somewhere...

    http://bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/11174004.AFC_Bournemouth__Simon_Francis_wins_Daily_Echo_s_Micky_Cave_Trophy/
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,343
    He used to be shite, but now he's alright.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,108
    Fair play to him - to play every single minute and be the highest 'assister' is some achievement at a club that has performed excellently this season.

    I always thought there was a player there, just was with us at the wrong time. He seems very bitter about us which I suppose he is completely entitled to be.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,300
    WSS said:

    Fair play to him - to play every single minute and be the highest 'assister' is some achievement at a club that has performed excellently this season.

    I always thought there was a player there, just was with us at the wrong time. He seems very bitter about us which I suppose he is completely entitled to be.

    Yep. Wrong club at the wrong time.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,502
    Right club right time wrong fans
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,343
    He was always decent going forward and is a good crosser of the ball, which Yann is now benefiting from, but he would just get caught out of position defensively.
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    Him, McCormack, Green are apparently good players, but couldn't/can't deal with the pressure of playing for a 'bigger' club.

    Brentford and Bournemouth both have lower attendances and less expectation than we do/did and like Wiggins said he found it difficult to adjust to but he's got there in the end
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,177
    cafcnick1992 said:

    Right club right time wrong fans

    haha Yeah it's the fans fault he was complete cack in a Charlton shirt
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,584
    Good luck to the lad. Never thought he was as bad as some were saying, same with Greg Halford. Our fans do like to identify a scapegoat, Church being the latest. At least Lisbie is now getting the respect he deserves at Orient.

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