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Meire At Telegraph Event - Business Of Sport
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What LR posted has a positive spin...
It means when she reads the article about the rant she had only 2 hours earlier....she will be even more horrified.
She does her "routinely bit" every now and again. Similar to that relegation club statement.
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She is a sociopath4
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From what I remember fees for Wiggins, Stephens, Morrison, Green and Hamer were all undisclosed.cantersaddick said:See Katrien we are laughing at you on an online forum again!!!
I remember Powell saying we only paid fees for two of the 15? In comings that year. Wiggins and one other. I can't think that the combined fees for anyone two players that came in would be more than 600k. So that must be our budget for next year. Great!Atletico Addick said:- She couldn't remember her remarks that were picked up by The Guardian..
What, 2 hours previous? Is she drunk?
Only other thing I can pick up from that LR is the player budget will be similar to the last League One campaign, one where we were run by 2 cowboys who had no money..2 -
Maybe ... although I still think she is immature, naive, disinterested, unprofessional, deluded, self-important, arrogant, pathological liar, manipulative, shameless, callous ...actually you are right, she is a sociopath.Hovi's Biscuit said:She is a sociopath
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well, there we go, she must read it then! Hello Squirrel Face - thanks for all the laughs today - you were great!cantersaddick said:See Katrien we are laughing at you on an online forum again!!!
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Now be fair she's paid a lot of money to make herself look even more inept and clueless than anyone thought possible. Money well spent in my eyes.Mendonca In Asdas said:
Feel pleased I haven't renewed my season tickets to pay for this tosh.Henry Irving said:She's there as an audience member so must be paying.
How many STs to pay for this self-promotion.
With luck she handed out her CV to anyone who will take one.
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She has sociopathic traits for sure.Hovi's Biscuit said:She is a sociopath
i can think of 5 or 6.
Hard to be certain though.
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I don't condone that but how do we know it was a fan? It could have been anybody who knows her?West2003 said:Maybe one of the criminal offences is the fan sending her poo in the post? Remember Jo Tongue tweeting that when she was pathetically trying to criticise our protests.
If she had any brains she would've played it up in an interview to gain some high ground but that's well beyond KM2 -
Declan Warrington made a comment that KM had been advised not to speak to the media - so she did this instead. YCNMIU0
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Well done everyone who made this happen! Huge shout out to KATRIEN! We would be nothing without you!1
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How did people find out that she was attending this event?
She must be feeling quite stalked at the moment.
Fine detective work and ambush to all concerned, best thread in ages.0 -
Didn't Hamer leave when his contract expired?Scoham said:
From what I remember fees for Wiggins, Stephens, Morrison, Green and Hamer were all undisclosed.cantersaddick said:See Katrien we are laughing at you on an online forum again!!!
I remember Powell saying we only paid fees for two of the 15? In comings that year. Wiggins and one other. I can't think that the combined fees for anyone two players that came in would be more than 600k. So that must be our budget for next year. Great!Atletico Addick said:- She couldn't remember her remarks that were picked up by The Guardian..
What, 2 hours previous? Is she drunk?
Only other thing I can pick up from that LR is the player budget will be similar to the last League One campaign, one where we were run by 2 cowboys who had no money..0 -
I suspect she's in the Blu-Ray Bloopers extras!!Airman Brown said:Pray god there's going to be a video...
Sorry...been on a course all day and just catching up with this car crash...couldn't help but read that and think of just a little "sex-wee"!! God Latrien...you truly are priceless!!!LuckyReds said:Slow trickle coming out.. No sign of Daisy.
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Same budget as last time we were in the 1st div? You have gotta be joking!
Same mistakes being made again. Look luv, this ain't going to work unless you give SCP the job or someone as capable, let him pick his staff, and then get the players he wants. These are basically the things you have to do the same as the last time we were in Div 1.
Oh, and it is going to cost more as prices have gone up, you have not been preparing for the possibility, you have not had a scouting team in place. Crap management ends up expensive in the long term, and you are the crap of the crap and so will need to spend a lot more. No one trusts you so you need to tempt them with more money. Players do want to know who their manager is going to be so judge how they fit in. That is not possible at Charlton. You have to have a huge leap of faith. This usually costs!
Oh, and SCP had the full support of the whole club, and especially the fans. We hate you, the thugs you employ, and all that Rolly stands for.
Good luck. You will need it. Unfortunately, thanks to you, I will not be there to see it.
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Jim White article after today's conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/charlton-athletic-chief-executives-chance-to-engage-with-fans-do/
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Super article by Jim.
A pity that the article's title has 'quiet' rather than 'quite'.
('Charlton Athletic chief executive's chance to engage with fans does not quiet go to plan')
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Now in the main sports part of the Telegraph, a further article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/i-have-suffered-extreme-abuse-says-charlton-executive-katrien-me/
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Don't understand what vile, personal abuse she's suffered?..HardyAddick said:Jim White article after today's conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/charlton-athletic-chief-executives-chance-to-engage-with-fans-do/0 -
Im quite proud of what we achieved today, as many many other things so far in this war. If we keep it savvy, we will win.
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I'd guess the Naby Sarr song and the various other allusions to her having slept her way into the job. Which personally I'd rather not see, as we've enough ammunition in terms of what she's actually done without resorting to sexist bullshit.RanTooFar said:
Don't understand what vile, personal abuse she's suffered?..HardyAddick said:Jim White article after today's conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/charlton-athletic-chief-executives-chance-to-engage-with-fans-do/17 -
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Would you though?aliwibble said:
I'd guess the Naby Sarr song and the various other allusions to her having slept her way into the job. Which personally I'd rather not see, as we've enough ammunition in terms of what she's actually done without resorting to sexist bullshit.RanTooFar said:
Don't understand what vile, personal abuse she's suffered?..HardyAddick said:Jim White article after today's conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/charlton-athletic-chief-executives-chance-to-engage-with-fans-do/2 -
squirrel face?RanTooFar said:
Don't understand what vile, personal abuse she's suffered?..HardyAddick said:Jim White article after today's conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/charlton-athletic-chief-executives-chance-to-engage-with-fans-do/0 -
Would I what?1
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Compliment if anything, looking at her...... Squirrels are lovely looking creatures.Macronate said:
squirrel face?RanTooFar said:
Don't understand what vile, personal abuse she's suffered?..HardyAddick said:Jim White article after today's conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/charlton-athletic-chief-executives-chance-to-engage-with-fans-do/0 -
Things don't happen like they have at Charlton without cause. She's the CEO and has overseen a period in which the club has been destabilised and become the stuff of ridicule. The fan-base is dispirited yet has found within itself a way to organise, collectively, against her and her boss. There's evidence aplenty that the club has lost its way, and a slow but certain route to relegation has compounded matters. So much could have been done - months ago - as regards public engagement, but all we got - repeatedly - was 'Do It This Way'. It was obvious to many that 'This Way' was nuts, but so it went on, to the point where we are at now. Sometimes one can dig oneself out of a hole - but in her case the hole got bigger. Redemption looks most unlikely. The damage has been done and cannot be undone.
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Another blisteringly critical article on the club's governence in the quality press. Yet every one of these credible, highly experienced, well regarded journalists is wrong...HardyAddick said:Jim White article after today's conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/12/charlton-athletic-chief-executives-chance-to-engage-with-fans-do/
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Back to her initial point before the blame game set in. Why should the football authorities step in because fans are protesting. Why should she warrant special treatment? The implication is clearly because she is a woman.0
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Jim White's Article from The Telegraph .
There we were, in the middle of a discussion at the Telegraph Business of Sport conference about the way our games are governed.
Jane Purdon, head of governance at UK Sport and previously at the Premier League, had just said that, in her experience, most football club owners were not asset strippers and had the best interests of the institution at heart. I suggested to her that the fans of Leeds United and Charlton Athletic might not agree. She concurred that not everyone gets it right and the debate moved on.
When the discussion was thrown open to the audience, however, the first question was posed by a woman in the middle of the audience.
“My name is Katrien Meire,” she said. “I’m the chief executive of Charlton Athletic and I wondered why you think our club is not properly run.”
Well, where do you start? Something to do with a once-model institution sinking down the leagues. Or maybe the gathering distance between boardroom and a formerly buoyant, engaged fan base which has led to a season of increasingly embittered protest, culminating in a poisonous atmosphere at The Valley, beach balls being hurled on to the pitch and a huge banner with a downward pointing arrow and the word ‘Liar’ hung over the directors’ box. It does not point to the most harmonious of business models.
Meire replied that the media was largely to blame for the fractious relationship, focusing far too much on the off-field disharmony and not enough on events on the field of play. Which might be a sound argument had events on the field of play not conspired to give stark testament to poor governance. After all, Charlton, once a thriving Premier League regular, have just been evicted from the Championship down to the third tier of English football.
It might be argued that if Meire has been the target for Charlton supporters’ ire, it was more likely driven by the disappointment of cumulative failure than any reporting of events at The Valley.
Speaking to her later, however, there was one point Meire raised that cannot be gainsaid. She suggested that she was keen to engage with the club’s supporters, but was finding it impossible to do so because in English football increasingly it is the owner who carries the can for events on the field. And, as Mike Ashley and Randy Lerner would concur, for the club owner, the gap with the supporters can become unbreachable very, very quickly.
In the past, the only avenue of protest available to fans was gathering outside the ground, where inevitably someone would propose heading to the chairman’s house to throw stones at the windows, if only they knew where he lived. Now there is real protest opportunity in the mobile device in the hands of every fan. It is social media that has enabled supporters to unleash their fury quickly and directly. And in truth some of the stuff Meire has endured has transgressed way beyond the boundaries of rational argument into the most vile of personal abuse.
Indeed, the power of social media was evident in what happened to her after her intervention at the conference. Someone tweeted a reference to her remarks and within moments, Charlton fans were responding. Let’s just say they were not positive in their views.
Social media users are not slow to put two and two together, either. When the event came to a conclusion, as Meire made her way out of the conference centre, she was confronted by a couple of Charlton supporters who had followed the clues to work out where she was.
If she was as keen to engage with the fans as she had suggested earlier, it was good to see we had engineered an opportunity for her to do so. Let’s hope that pavement summit marked the start of a beautiful relationship. Though do not hold your breath.
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She doesn't fill me with confidence0
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I believe her.1
