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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • I would worry if any new ownership allows Richard Murray the role that he reportedly wants. Just because I think he is so tainted by association with the current regime that keeping him in situ would indicate a limited interest in the club.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,213

    I’m getting ahead of myself but we might need to speak a bit of Australian should the new owners arrive:

    Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
    Arvo : afternoon
    Amber fluid : beer
    Aussie : Australian
    Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic
    Big Mobs : loads, a lot of
    Bloody : very
    Bloody oath! : that's certainly true
    Blue : argument/mistake
    Bodgy : poor quality
    Bonzer : great, ripper
    Bottler : something excellent
    Bottling : his blood's worth: he's an excellent, helpful bloke
    Buckley's chance :
    (you've got) no chance
    Bull dust : rubbish
    Cactus : dead, broken
    Cark it : to die, stop working
    Chocka : full up
    Click : kilometre - "it's 20 clicks away"
    Come a gutser : a bad mistake or have an accident
    Come good : turn out ok
    Cooee, not within : figuratively a long way away
    Cost big bikkies : expensive
    Crack a fat : get an erection
    Cream, to : defeat by a large margin
    Cut snake :
    (mad as a) very angry
    Dead dingo's donger :
    (as dry as a) dry
    Deadset : true / the truth
    Dingo's breakfast : no breakfast
    Dinkum / fair dinkum : true, real, genuine
    Dinky-di : the real thing, genuine
    Docket : a bill, receipt
    Doco : documentary
    Drink with the flies : to drink alone
    Dunny rat :
    (cunning as a) very cunning
    Exy : expensive
    Fair dinkum : true, genuine
    Fair go : a chance / break
    Fair suck of the sav! : exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief
    Furphy : rumour
    G'Day : hello!
    Give it a burl : try it, have a go
    Give it away : give up
    Going off : good fun
    Good oil : useful information, a good idea, the truth
    Good onya : well done
    Grouse : great, terrific
    Heaps : a lot
    Iffy : dodgy
    It's gone walkabout : it's lost, can't be found
    Kangaroos loose
    in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate
    Kick the bucket : to die
    Knock back : refuse
    London to a brick : absolute certainty
    Lunch :
    (who opened their?) OK, who farted?
    Mate's rate : cheaper than usual for a friend
    Mate's discount : cheaper than usual for a friend
    No worries! : no problem / its okay
    Nun's nasty :
    (as dry as a) very dry
    Piece of piss : easy task
    Pig's arse! : I don't agree
    Plate, bring a : Instruction to bring a plate of food to a party
    Pozzy : position
    Quid, make a : earn a living
    Rack off : get lost! get out of here!
    Reckon! : for sure
    Ridgy-didge : original, genuine
    Right : okay
    Ripper : Great
    Rooted : ruined, broken
    She'll be apples : It'll be all right
    She'll be right : it'll be okay
    Sparrows fart : dawn
    Strewth : exclamation
    Stoked : very pleased
    Stuffed, I'll be : expression of surprise
    Too right : definitely
    Turps, hit the : go on a drinking binge
    Zack, not worth a : not worth anything

  • Addickted said:

    Can I be the first to ask what the new owners exit strategy is?

    You laugh but don't you wish we had an answer to that from the Spivs and from Duchatelet.

    Maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.
    I told you Henry wouldn't like it ;0)

  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886

    I would worry if any new ownership allows Richard Murray the role that he reportedly wants. Just because I think he is so tainted by association with the current regime that keeping him in situ would indicate a limited interest in the club.

    Me too but don't forget Muzza has a £2m debenture to be satisfied so will have some say and it is a drug for him to be involved at the top table.
  • Without getting ahead of myself,do we actually know for sure that its the Australian consortium? Just this Muir fella? Sure it was on here somewhere that other parties were interested not so long ago?
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,380
    Going to bed now ... should sleep well tonight
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,846
    se9addick said:

    @Redchaser I agree with all you say.

    All we can do is see how it all pans out, who knows another consortium might show their hand if this one fails to complete a deal.

    One thing is for sure until RD has gone in total, the club & the rift between fans are not going to heal.

    My concerns are from post one of this thread, particularly these bits from the Mail on line .

    AFC, who have their sights on making Charlton the breeding ground for talent from Down Under, have undertaken initial due diligence with plans to turn Karl Robinson's side into 'Australia's Football Club'.

    AFC's stated aim is to return Charlton to the Premier League, though there is a desire to create a natural link between the club and Australian football, making Charlton something of a feeder club for the next generation of Aussie superstars.


    Nothing wrong with Premiership ambitions, but achieving it with ‘promising’ young Aussie lads seems about as likely as getting there with Belgian rejects. I hate to think of Charlton as a feeder club with a stolen identity.

    Just to be clear, I want the present owner out, but surely the main objective must be to restore Charlton's identity.

    Surely work permit issues would stop young Australian players who haven't yet played for the national team coming over en masse?
    Regarding the Aussie players, they've hardly been prolific during WCQ. In fact, quite inept. They've still not qualified and have a difficult task against Honduras.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,801

    Dazzler21 said:

    @Airman Brown Just found VotV online and can say I've ordered my first one, if it's a decent read I may well sub.

    It may be worthwhile to create a thread on here, potentially updating it with a blurb before each issue is due to go on sale.

    I thought it had to be bought somewhere sneaky on a match day.

    Yes, Rick secretly emerges in his long coat ready to peddle his illicit wares...I usually disguise it in a copy of "Big 'Uns Monthly" to avoid suspicion
    OK, so I do a bit of Voice of the Valley. I can handle it.

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,801

    Everything crossed!!!!


    Only things you've got at least two of.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,801
    Pedro45 said:

    Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE let it happen!

    I'll only give that a 'Like' if you typed every one and didn't just copy and paste.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    ozaddick said:

    se9addick said:

    @Redchaser I agree with all you say.

    All we can do is see how it all pans out, who knows another consortium might show their hand if this one fails to complete a deal.

    One thing is for sure until RD has gone in total, the club & the rift between fans are not going to heal.

    My concerns are from post one of this thread, particularly these bits from the Mail on line .

    AFC, who have their sights on making Charlton the breeding ground for talent from Down Under, have undertaken initial due diligence with plans to turn Karl Robinson's side into 'Australia's Football Club'.

    AFC's stated aim is to return Charlton to the Premier League, though there is a desire to create a natural link between the club and Australian football, making Charlton something of a feeder club for the next generation of Aussie superstars.


    Nothing wrong with Premiership ambitions, but achieving it with ‘promising’ young Aussie lads seems about as likely as getting there with Belgian rejects. I hate to think of Charlton as a feeder club with a stolen identity.

    Just to be clear, I want the present owner out, but surely the main objective must be to restore Charlton's identity.

    Surely work permit issues would stop young Australian players who haven't yet played for the national team coming over en masse?
    Regarding the Aussie players, they've hardly been prolific during WCQ. In fact, quite inept. They've still not qualified and have a difficult task against Honduras.
    Typical Charlton! Slagging off our new players already ; - )
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,360

    Dazzler21 said:

    @Airman Brown Just found VotV online and can say I've ordered my first one, if it's a decent read I may well sub.

    It may be worthwhile to create a thread on here, potentially updating it with a blurb before each issue is due to go on sale.

    I thought it had to be bought somewhere sneaky on a match day.

    Yes, Rick secretly emerges in his long coat ready to peddle his illicit wares...I usually disguise it in a copy of "Big 'Uns Monthly" to avoid suspicion
    OK, so I do a bit of Voice of the Valley. I can handle it.
    I received my first package the other day, started with a few lines, progressed onto a few pages... but it's some strong stuff. I couldn't finish it all in one session.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,801

    Refuse to get my hopes up until it's completed and I see the words

    'as part of the ownership change, Katrien Meire has stepped down as Chief Executive '

    That will be wonderful, but you have to have some sympathy for the next poor buggers Roland lumbers with her.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    back to the burger van u go----- karma gota love it
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,826

    Pedro45 said:

    Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE let it happen!

    I'll only give that a 'Like' if you typed every one and didn't just copy and paste.
    Of course not! That would be like scouting a player Charlton want to sign in real life rather than just on FIFA2016 wouldn't it?!?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,801
    PeterGage said:

    For sale: one unwanted black/white scarf, one XL black/white quartered shirt and a donkey costume.


    The black and white items will always be a symbol of how fans can mobilise and come together.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    How many pieces is in the jigsaw.
  • HarryLime
    HarryLime Posts: 1,295

    Refuse to get my hopes up until it's completed and I see the words

    'as part of the ownership change, Katrien Meire has stepped down as Chief Executive '

    That will be wonderful, but you have to have some sympathy for the next poor buggers Roland lumbers with her.
    I can see her wanting to stick around, if there is a takeover. I think she feels that she has done a very good job. I've worked with and for people like her before.

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,801

    Macronate said:

    .

    Fuck that. I want a parade where RD KM Keohane and the rest are marched out of the ground whilst we throw eggs and rotten tomatoes at them.
    It's a bit hard marching someone out of a ground he hasn't been to for three years!
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    firstly, anyone HAS to be a better owner than the current incumbent.
    Robinson, I neither like nor dislike the fella, yes, new owners generally mean a new manager/coach, and normally they want to do it their way, so that would mean probably no SCP.But should Robbo get us promoted then its unlikely he will be disposed of, (unless of course he had a bad run in the Champs).
    I like the Aussie sporting psyche, they like to win, but they also are very thorough. they would be much more 'transparent' and open than the current wankas.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,891
    edited October 2017

    Refuse to get my hopes up until it's completed and I see the words

    'as part of the ownership change, Katrien Meire has stepped down as Chief Executive '

    That will be wonderful, but you have to have some sympathy for the next poor buggers Roland lumbers with her.
    Knowing my luck, she'll probably get a job with Kent Cricket
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,846

    ozaddick said:

    se9addick said:

    @Redchaser I agree with all you say.

    All we can do is see how it all pans out, who knows another consortium might show their hand if this one fails to complete a deal.

    One thing is for sure until RD has gone in total, the club & the rift between fans are not going to heal.

    My concerns are from post one of this thread, particularly these bits from the Mail on line .

    AFC, who have their sights on making Charlton the breeding ground for talent from Down Under, have undertaken initial due diligence with plans to turn Karl Robinson's side into 'Australia's Football Club'.

    AFC's stated aim is to return Charlton to the Premier League, though there is a desire to create a natural link between the club and Australian football, making Charlton something of a feeder club for the next generation of Aussie superstars.


    Nothing wrong with Premiership ambitions, but achieving it with ‘promising’ young Aussie lads seems about as likely as getting there with Belgian rejects. I hate to think of Charlton as a feeder club with a stolen identity.

    Just to be clear, I want the present owner out, but surely the main objective must be to restore Charlton's identity.

    Surely work permit issues would stop young Australian players who haven't yet played for the national team coming over en masse?
    Regarding the Aussie players, they've hardly been prolific during WCQ. In fact, quite inept. They've still not qualified and have a difficult task against Honduras.
    Typical Charlton! Slagging off our new players already ; - )
    Where do I pick up my CL badge? I've obviously 'made it' on here.
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Tim Cahill seen in Co-op New Eltham, had a flask, blanket and a train timetable with him.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341

    The Aussies were definitely struggling for capital a few months ago.
    So much so that I nearly had a meeting with the mighty Keith Harris (I kid you not!)
    Their blueprint was fanciful in my view but they are passionate about their sport so who knows.
    Just hope they've got someone involved with more clout than a biscuit factory owner from shuttleworth! ( my fake persona for investigative purposes!)

    @carly burn It seems that you don't have a lot of faith in Keith Harris. I have no idea as to the voracity of any claims that he's involved, but I would hazard a guess that his involvement make most people more confident of a consortium's credentials than less.

    He has a stellar cv in terms of both finance and football. So if the potential owners are taking advice from him, I would see that as a very good thing. It's worth bearing in mind who he has had dealings with - Roman Abramovich, Mohammed el Fayad, Thaksin Shinawatra, Randy Lerner - and which football club transactions and/or takeovers he's been involved in - Everton, Fulham, Cardiff City, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, West Ham...

    What do all those people have in common, apart from stewardship of British football clubs? They're loaded.

    What do all those clubs have in common? They're all doing better than Charlton right now.

    I have no idea whether Keith Harris is involved with Charlton's potential new owners. But if he is, I would say that's a very positive thing.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,868
    iamdan said:

    Tim Cahill seen in Co-op New Eltham, had a flask, blanket and a train timetable with him.

    Just saw Neil in the village barbers there cutting his hair.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,801
    Solidgone said:


    I’m getting ahead of myself but we might need to speak a bit of Australian should the new owners arrive:

    Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
    Arvo : afternoon
    Amber fluid : beer
    Aussie : Australian
    Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic
    Big Mobs : loads, a lot of
    Bloody : very
    Bloody oath! : that's certainly true
    Blue : argument/mistake
    Bodgy : poor quality
    Bonzer : great, ripper
    Bottler : something excellent
    Bottling : his blood's worth: he's an excellent, helpful bloke
    Buckley's chance :
    (you've got) no chance
    Bull dust : rubbish
    Cactus : dead, broken
    Cark it : to die, stop working
    Chocka : full up
    Click : kilometre - "it's 20 clicks away"
    Come a gutser : a bad mistake or have an accident
    Come good : turn out ok
    Cooee, not within : figuratively a long way away
    Cost big bikkies : expensive
    Crack a fat : get an erection
    Cream, to : defeat by a large margin
    Cut snake :
    (mad as a) very angry
    Dead dingo's donger :
    (as dry as a) dry
    Deadset : true / the truth
    Dingo's breakfast : no breakfast
    Dinkum / fair dinkum : true, real, genuine
    Dinky-di : the real thing, genuine
    Docket : a bill, receipt
    Doco : documentary
    Drink with the flies : to drink alone
    Dunny rat :
    (cunning as a) very cunning
    Exy : expensive
    Fair dinkum : true, genuine
    Fair go : a chance / break
    Fair suck of the sav! : exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief
    Furphy : rumour
    G'Day : hello!
    Give it a burl : try it, have a go
    Give it away : give up
    Going off : good fun
    Good oil : useful information, a good idea, the truth
    Good onya : well done
    Grouse : great, terrific
    Heaps : a lot
    Iffy : dodgy
    It's gone walkabout : it's lost, can't be found
    Kangaroos loose
    in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate
    Kick the bucket : to die
    Knock back : refuse
    London to a brick : absolute certainty
    Lunch :
    (who opened their?) OK, who farted?
    Mate's rate : cheaper than usual for a friend
    Mate's discount : cheaper than usual for a friend
    No worries! : no problem / its okay
    Nun's nasty :
    (as dry as a) very dry
    Piece of piss : easy task
    Pig's arse! : I don't agree
    Plate, bring a : Instruction to bring a plate of food to a party
    Pozzy : position
    Quid, make a : earn a living
    Rack off : get lost! get out of here!
    Reckon! : for sure
    Ridgy-didge : original, genuine
    Right : okay
    Ripper : Great
    Rooted : ruined, broken
    She'll be apples : It'll be all right
    She'll be right : it'll be okay
    Sparrows fart : dawn
    Strewth : exclamation
    Stoked : very pleased
    Stuffed, I'll be : expression of surprise
    Too right : definitely
    Turps, hit the : go on a drinking binge
    Zack, not worth a : not worth anything

    You forgot the most important one - bottle shop.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Chizz said:

    The Aussies were definitely struggling for capital a few months ago.
    So much so that I nearly had a meeting with the mighty Keith Harris (I kid you not!)
    Their blueprint was fanciful in my view but they are passionate about their sport so who knows.
    Just hope they've got someone involved with more clout than a biscuit factory owner from shuttleworth! ( my fake persona for investigative purposes!)

    @carly burn It seems that you don't have a lot of faith in Keith Harris. I have no idea as to the voracity of any claims that he's involved, but I would hazard a guess that his involvement make most people more confident of a consortium's credentials than less.

    He has a stellar cv in terms of both finance and football. So if the potential owners are taking advice from him, I would see that as a very good thing. It's worth bearing in mind who he has had dealings with - Roman Abramovich, Mohammed el Fayad, Thaksin Shinawatra, Randy Lerner - and which football club transactions and/or takeovers he's been involved in - Everton, Fulham, Cardiff City, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, West Ham...

    What do all those people have in common, apart from stewardship of British football clubs? They're loaded.

    What do all those clubs have in common? They're all doing better than Charlton right now.

    I have no idea whether Keith Harris is involved with Charlton's potential new owners. But if he is, I would say that's a very positive thing.
    agreed, I fucking love orville
  • Never really been into all that religious stuff,but fuck me,in last couple days I've been proper practicing at it...ain't stopped praying for this to actually happen...!!!

    This time Douchbag come on please,sell sell sell,go forth & just fuck off with the rest of your minions...Amen

    Ps I have got no problems & nothing against the real minions by the way...!!
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