Katrien Meire

braydex said:

Haven't seen the clip so will only be guided by what I've read. Yeah she got stick. Rightly so. There is a big difference between being angry and being threatening. It sound like someone was just telling her what most of us want to say to her. If you wanna hold the position she does at a club that has gone through what we have this past week, then travel home with the fans are a humiliating drubbing expecting to sing a few rounds of Valley Floyd Road, like you would on a day out, you're either naive, stupid or simply don't understand what football means to the fans. Just because she is female, doesn't mean she shouldn't hear a few home truths. Look at Karen Brady, I bet your bottom dollar she would have sat and taken a whole heap of shit, because she gets it. Even bloody delia smith gets it! If you want to be woman in charge of a professional club, genuinely good luck. No reason why a woman couldn't be a success......but learn to take the rough with the smooth.

I suspect Katrien does get it. It's RD who doesn't, or doesn't care.

I doubt very much that Curbishley applied. He said on Sky that he was pretty sure they had somebody lined up but if the club wanted to talk to him he would talk. That is inviting an approach, not applying. Being a lawyer, she shouldn't have said who applied (if she did - I haven't seen video clip) as well.

cheers

Mike said:

whereabouts on facebook is the vid?

Please help us, I'm struggling too

MuttleyCAFC said:

I doubt very much that Curbishley applied. He said on Sky that he was pretty sure they had somebody lined up but if the club wanted to talk to him he would talk. That is inviting an approach, not applying. Being a lawyer, she shouldn't have said who applied (if she did - I haven't seen video clip) as well.

She states in the video that he applied.

I think she is struggling to see the difference between an application and an interview to be honest.

or perhaps (apologies, couldn't resist a perhaps) a sky sports interview and an application?

charente addick said:

If the 'men' on the train were anything like some of the morons I had the displeasure of being near during the match today then I wouldn't blame her for resigning immediately.

The performance of the players was deeply disappointing but, good god, I felt like I was on a Millwall away day for most of game. When you pay money for a Charlton match you know once a season it's going to be painful. But to be surrounded by utter knob heads for 90 minutes is the memory that lives with me and has turned me off football a little. Hated that.

Come to Boro in a few weeks' time, mate.

Won't be any problems there from "the few"

I imagine she's opened a bottle of something decent and is watching a richard curtis romcom to take her mind off it.
She'd be mad to be on here just now.

Jimmy Stone ‏@JimmyStone_ 8m8 minutes ago
Also worth noting that our last CEO didn't bother attending away matches. KM travels up and down the country to watch the team. #cafc

Mart Adkins © ‏@MartTheTaxi 3m3 minutes ago
@JimmyStone_ yeah !! So what . She's a nobody just a mouthpiece for Duchatalet .

Jimmy Stone ‏@JimmyStone_ 38s39 seconds ago
@MartTheTaxi Given what's happened you're entitled to think that. Worth knowing she cares though. One of the hardest workers at the club.

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I really hope she is successful. I think it has been clear to see that she cares from the moment she joined CAFC. She just needs to stop being pissed about by people above her.

Nobody was rude or threatening, stop blowing it out of proportion. The guy was a bit drunk and a bit loud, but in my opinion he was respectful, I certainly heard nothing that was rude. He may have said that he thinks she's lying and he is entitled to say that with all the info that has come out. What he said was fair comment.

If I had cocked with communication et al like the club have this week, I'd not only be happy to have my professionalism questioned, I'd hold my hands up. I run an imports/exports business and the relationships I have with my customers are what makes the business successful.

It seems a few men are unaware that a lightly built woman might feel physically threatened when a large loud and drunk man is angrily and aggressively looming above her and shouting. This type of behaviour is scary guys and It should stop.
P.S. I think I disagree with me.

I just watched the video. This is why I like my car and the company of a few friends, I don't have to listen to loud men who know everything about everything but in reality can only repeat the same fact over and over until all around go quiet.
I thought the CEO handled the conversation quite well. I'm not sure what the 34 year old man wanted to hear apart from his own voice and an agreement of his point of view (few would agree Paul Jewell is the answer to getting us to the promised land). He was probably correct about today's performance but he cant really comment on that as he walked out at half time apparently. Why didn't he get an earlier train back home? Maybe he just wanted to soak up a miserable atmosphere.
Football is full of people with opinions but very few people get paid for their opinion, for obvious reasons. Venting your spleen to a stranger on a train, (I doubt Katrien Meire knows this man), will never win an argument or change the direction of events.

Questions don't need to be asked, anyone with a small amount of hindsight can work out what has gone on. Anyone with a little imagination can see how the club is run and with a little foresight most can hazard a guess on how bad this season can turn out.

Henry Irving said:

I hate it when people constantly misuse the term "embarrassing" on this site and elsewhere to describe anger, frustration, disappointment etc over a football result.

But I tell you what is embarrassing is grown men bringing a women close to tears on a train and other grown men defending that.

I find it even more embarrassing in 2015 that people have to appear to "stick up for women".
The Suffragette Movement, Women's Lib, The Labour Party, The Liberal Party etc have fought for years for equal women's rights and macho comments like this just put our struggle backwards again.
Abuse, whether physical or verbal is wrong, but to go on about "grown men" bringing a women(sic) "close to tears" does NOT help our struggle.
Abuse is abuse is abuse but gender, sexual orientation, race or creed should not be highlighted in 2015.