CARD STATEMENT - Response to Invitation from the Club

PeterGage said:

Cambridge said:

MAy as well go all the way and admit to wanting curbs out. He stayed about 5 years too long (similar to his good mate Fergie). Boring boring football. 6 in defence, with solid 4 in midfield as soon as we lost the ball. Yes premier league, but that wasn't football!

5 years too long? Sorry but that is possibly the most ridiculous statement I've seen on here for years. You mean before Parker and Jensen at their best and then Smertin Murphy and Bent albeit their collective peak was only half a season

We are getting closer to something posted months ago - what do we actually want? I hear the "get the owners out" but dare I say that isn't our actual goal. For example - RD leaves and we get the same again but with a different name - have we achieved our objective? No. What we actually want is Charlton back as Charlton. This message should be stronger than it is right now. It's not RD or KM personally it's about how they are managing Charlton.

I can already hear the replies of - that is what we say, read the messages. But I'm afraid in the same way many said they wanted a quality coach with experience etc all that was heard were those who were asking for British British British. Our PR needs to be better than this.

No doubt that will be taken as a negative but in fact it simply asks for more, ambition to be better - something we all can be in life. Never stop improving. (Not a religious statement btw).

SomervilleAddick said:

The Red Robin said:

kinveachyaddick said:

Have no doubt that CARD considered all their options before issuing the response to the invitation but my only thought is did they consider saying they would accept on the proviso that RD attended the meeting?

I think the Trust have tried and exhausted that route already.

While I'll never say never to meetings, I agree with CARD in this case. What is there to discuss? The club keep saying they have learnt, will change, but nothing happens to demonstrate that.

If they really want to have a constructive relationship with the large segment of the fans who have become disillusioned with their leadership, they should just keep quiet and execute a plan to turn this around without contstant spin.

Perform basic stadium maintenance, complete the Acadamy, deliver tickets on time, appoint a truly independent Director of Football, give him a budget and let him run the club.

They know what the problems are - fix them. Don't tell us what you want to do/plan to do/hope to do, just do it.

When people see real change, not just talk about how they would like to change, maybe there will be a thaw in relations.

Until then, they have zero credibility in many people's eyes, so what is there to talk about.

The "we have learnt from our mistakes" line is, as we can all recognise, is a spin engineered by the PR people employed by the Club.

If Duchatelet really acknowledged his mistakes the prime ones IMO

1. appointment of Meire as CEO - which patently has failed.

2. Appointment of Driesen as an internet scout for the network inclusive of Charlton. This ridiculed here and in certain circles in Belgium.

Then he would have dispensed with the services of both.

However, Roland 'doesn't do failure' (how I hate that arrogant throwaway line from Meire) so he will continue unabashed with both Meire and Driesen no matter how much valid criticism comes their way.

So, how much has Duchatelet learned during his 2.5 years of ownership (whilst condescending to spend 1.5% of his working time on Charlton) - I would suggest very little and on top of this he somehow still adheres to this Utopian belief that fans from rival teams will meet up for drinks pre-game just like Rugby.

Well, he gets his wish about this on Saturday but not perhaps in the way he envisaged when fans of both clubs get together in condemnation of RD. Meire and the Coventry owners.

Cambridge said:

MAy as well go all the way and admit to wanting curbs out. He stayed about 5 years too long (similar to his good mate Fergie). Boring boring football. 6 in defence, with solid 4 in midfield as soon as we lost the ball. Yes premier league, but that wasn't football!

Would much rather boring football in the Premier League than League 1 to be honest.

Was going to Meire's parents house a mistake?

If so then maybe the Belgium 20 should admit to mistakes in the past and then get straight back out there and do it again.

Then they could admit to making mistakes in the past... And go back out there and do it again...

And on...and on.....and on.

If you can't beat them, learn from them!

Fuck em

Be unfortunate if someone brought this thread to the attention of Sheffield Wednesday fans...

SoundAsa£ said:

Cambridge said:

MAy as well go all the way and admit to wanting curbs out. He stayed about 5 years too long (similar to his good mate Fergie). Boring boring football. 6 in defence, with solid 4 in midfield as soon as we lost the ball. Yes premier league, but that wasn't football!

Getting your twatish post of the year entry in really early aren’t you?
Mind you, it will be in the running I think come December.

That was last year Soundas

SoundAsa£ said:

Dazzler21 said:

SoundAsa£ said:

Cambridge said:

MAy as well go all the way and admit to wanting curbs out. He stayed about 5 years too long (similar to his good mate Fergie). Boring boring football. 6 in defence, with solid 4 in midfield as soon as we lost the ball. Yes premier league, but that wasn't football!

Getting your twatish post of the year entry in really early aren’t you?
Mind you, it will be in the running I think come December.

That was last year Soundas

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Yeah this is a resurrected thread from October 2016 so he was circa 14 months too early for the 2018 Twattish Post of the Year submissions

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