The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

_MrDick said:

He’s had some great roles over the years. He’s he better Hercule Poirot than David Suchet, IMHO.

_MrDick said:

He’s had some great roles over the years. He’s he better Hercule Poirot than David Suchet, IMHO.

addick05 said:

LargeAddick said:

Oggy Red said:

Lincsaddick said:

Oggy Red said:

Henry Irving said:

Airman Brown said:

They are Plymouth directors. The grey-haired one is Michael Dunford, their chief executive.

So we are being bought by the Plymouth owners and will ground share at Home Park.

Huge potential to build a bigger stadium, large catchment area too.

Assume a merger as Charlton Argyle is the next logical and essential step.

You unicorn lovers will complain but we have to move to be successful in the premier league, there is no other way.

@Oggy Red and @charente addick will be happy.

And you'll get more than 14 chips and a proper Cornish pasty.

you'd be the wrong side of the Tamar for that

Good spot, Lincs.

Outside the ground, I believe they're Ivor Dewdney's pasties, made in Plymouth - so you'd be right, but I find them fine.
Their bakery is only a mile or so from the border at the River Tamar, but by definition not quite Cornish.

Ginsters, who sponsor Argyle and whose pasties can be bought in the ground, are made in Callington in Cornwall - so at least qualify as "Cornish"
But you don't want to be buying one of they, down here living in Cornwall, we regard them as factory produced supermarket fodder .... 'tis not a proper pasty, boy.

Rowes or even Warren's make a much better Cornish pasty, but I really like Chough's in Padstow, baked on the premises.
http://www.thechoughbakery.co.uk/

Yep, Chough’s in Padstow the best I’ve ever had. And I’ve had a few :-))

Going down to Bridport at the end of October and the pasties in the bakers there are fantastic.

N01R4M said:

If anyone still feels they would be happy if Roland sold the team but retained the Valley, have a read of this in today’s paper: https://sporza.be/nl/2018/09/25/extra-time-kunstgras-stvv/

Translation:
STVV put Antwerp on the nose last weekend. With a 2-0 score, the team from Limburg sent home the oldest club in the country without points. Not so much that achievement was a discussion topic afterwards, but the bad field.
"STVV treated Antwerp on its first defeat," Filip Joos said yesterday in Extra Time. "STVV is very busy, but there is a downside to Saturday night: I came to the field two hours before the game and was scared to death, not only was I, for that artificial pitch ..."

"This goes beyond the discussion between natural and artificial grass, and I am in favor of natural grass, but, well, one team with artificial grass in our competition is allowed, but make sure it is a good synthetic turf pitch."

"The STVV field is worn down to the point: it is a carpet in a Chinese restaurant where 3,000 people walk every night, it is terrible and incredible at the same time, and it was still raining, and there was no way to play football."

"To my great delight, STVV coach Marc Brys already agreed on the dramatic state of the field before the match, and Jelle Van Damme's beard looked better than Sint-Truiden's grass. approved. "

"There is the problem that the stadium is owned by Roland Duchâtelet and that the club is now in Japanese hands, the two parties do not speak the same language, they have, I think, opposing interests, because it is a multi-purpose stadium. no longer the priority. "

"What is also noticeable: STVV plays really well, but there is not a lot of people coming in. That former atmosphere of Staaien from the 80's with a tribune that shook its foundations: where did all those people go? That has to do with the switch to artificial turf and with a very clean, albeit beautiful, stand, you offer people more comfort, yet only a third of the time comes. "

cafcwill said:

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cafcwill said:

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/c66b092f-e0a8-4406-bfd8-65e596175c8d

Solidgone said:

Jamaican patty v Cornish pastie

Oggy Red said:

Dazzler21 said:

Honestly believe any interested parties are now playing hard ball with Roland, which given his stubbornness will only end badly for the employees, players and supporters of Charlton.

We continue to wait.

If he's losing around a million a month running Charlton ....... surely there has to be a 'tipping point', when he'll accept an offer, if only to stop his financial bleeding?

Oggy Red said:

Dazzler21 said:

Honestly believe any interested parties are now playing hard ball with Roland, which given his stubbornness will only end badly for the employees, players and supporters of Charlton.

We continue to wait.

If he's losing around a million a month running Charlton ....... surely there has to be a 'tipping point', when he'll accept an offer, if only to stop his financial bleeding?

HarryLime said:

Oggy Red said:

Dazzler21 said:

Honestly believe any interested parties are now playing hard ball with Roland, which given his stubbornness will only end badly for the employees, players and supporters of Charlton.

We continue to wait.

If he's losing around a million a month running Charlton ....... surely there has to be a 'tipping point', when he'll accept an offer, if only to stop his financial bleeding?

You would think so.
But he is a special kind of arse.
One with a superiority complex.