Talk Sport - Jim White (ed. Page 21 - Grapevine destroys Roland)

Croydon said:

Henry Irving said:

https://twitter.com/JimWhite/status/1056651766174044162?s=19

He looks like something out of a Haunted House. A creepy butler or something.

Roland in the creepy 'The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case' (1930)

Quote: 'I hope you have a nice lonnngggg sleep.' (Uncanny)

Is this RD realising that he’s completely F***ked and look as if he’s going to have to continue to fund more seasons - as a takeover deal is completely off the table/his demands are too high?

Seems very desperate to firstly talk to Jim white , but to also appologise etc

Crusty54 said:

Apology to the fans and for the poor communication in the Standard tonight.

Assume that's just an extract from JW interview? Nothing on the Standard online.

If he genuinely wished to apologise to fans, then why not contact the Supporters' Trust? It's not as though he doesn't have our contact details from all the emails and letters we've sent him over the past (nearly) five years.

Weegie Addick said:

Crusty54 said:

Apology to the fans and for the poor communication in the Standard tonight.

Assume that's just an extract from JW interview? Nothing on the Standard online.

If he genuinely wished to apologise to fans, then why not contact the Supporters' Trust? It's not as though he doesn't have our contact details from all the emails and letters we've sent him over the past (nearly) five years.

He doesn't want to apologise to us and he won't, not in any true sense. And even if he does, it doesn't unsell the players he's sold, or un-buy the absolute showers of utter shite he's heaped upon a succession of patsies, or unappoint of a woman so far out of her depth and incompetent or un-leave the useless sod hanging out to dry.

And what we are all going to see, it won't bring people back. I'm a boycotter, no Charlton fan is a glory hunter. I've watched more shit games than I care to remember and I haven't got anything like the miles on the clock like @AFKABartram, @Ketman, @oohaahmortimer have.

I would always buy a season though. Sometimes not making it to the ground (showing my support to local pubs instead to help them through the quiet 2 hours between 3 and 5pm), to see my pals, to see us compete and have a go. It's what made me love us.

And I'm finding my Saturdays filled. Not with stuff I enjoy, stuff that is taking the place of something I love because I refuse to give the evil old c¥nt any money or validation.

Now the protests are faded away lots of people will already have had their Saturdays filled and their kids, horribly will have been to places like West ham for football. Or worse

Fuck off Roland you evil, nasty toad

Well I am happy to hold my hands up and say ok Roland you have won, you are better than me, richer than me and have a bigger dick than me.

I boycott and am told to support the team, I protest and am told it effects the team, I dont know what to do now, how about we agree your the best and then you can sell, I can crawl back from under my miserable rock and watch the irrelevant side you never cared about anyway once you have gone.

WSA said:

The short video clip is within this link:

https://talksport.com/football/efl/439307/roland-duchatelet-exclusive-charlton-owner-guilty-fans/

What a great guy, so misunderstood.

Obviously its well beyond that now, but there was a campaign called spell it out in black and white, old uncle Roley is perhaps latching on to that?

He also appears to be admitting to failure, well nearly, he's never done failure of course. He's also actually displaying empathy, both are new to him we feel. Is he having an Epiphany here or is he actually just listening to his PR(s) ? Or maybe even the FF

It doesn't really change much as he's basically accepting he's not cut out for the job. It's tragic really particularly after recent events, and the sad demise of an owner who has been a great example of what an enlightened billionaire owner can achieve albeit after spending a huge amount.

If the communication and execution had been better would we have bought in? Perhaps, perhaps not, but ultimately success is the name of the game and RD's strategy was flawed in so many ways and he failed on all fronts. Personally I was never happy with the Network idea from the start.

I do think it's a shame to continue boycotting though, he's going now and the only people hurting from that are ourselves including some of the fine CL members above.

LargeAddick said:

‘He’s going now’? Like he’s been going since he first instructed people to find buyers over two years ago. If he wanted to he could go tomorrow. But he won’t. The blokes a grade A shitweasal. Just fuck off you senile old scroat.

Yes but he is going, you cant really doubt it, and whatever we say it will be on his terms. So why punish ourselves, and risk the club and its support dying off even further?

razil said:

LargeAddick said:

‘He’s going now’? Like he’s been going since he first instructed people to find buyers over two years ago. If he wanted to he could go tomorrow. But he won’t. The blokes a grade A shitweasal. Just fuck off you senile old scroat.

Yes but he is going, you cant really doubt it, and whatever we say it will be on his terms. So why punish ourselves, and risk the club and its support dying off even further?

Like saying keep going to the restaurant where the food is rubbish because the owner says he’s selling, honest guv, and until he does just put up with it.

I am beginning to think I may have misjudged Roland.

Maybe he is not the deluded sociopath who has ripped the heart and soul out of a proud football club and allowed his incompetent sycophants to lead it into a chaos, conflict, humiliation and League One mid table obscurity, after all.

I can see now that perhaps this wasn't just a disastrous half baked social experiment that failed tragically from day one, it was more of a sort of minor communications error.

In fact, I think the entire four years of abject shame and misery might be the fault of that Tom Rubinstein bloke in PR and not Roland's fault at all.

RD revealed he will sell if the club get promoted to the Championship:

He also revealed buyers are still interested in the club and that he would happily walk away from Charlton THIS YEAR, if they gain promotion back to the Championship.

So it all sort of makes sense now. The Aussies came over for the play-offs last season, we lost, and therefore they haven't bought the club. Mystery solved.

So Roland is a spanner, never his fault.

Henry Irving said:

razil said:

LargeAddick said:

‘He’s going now’? Like he’s been going since he first instructed people to find buyers over two years ago. If he wanted to he could go tomorrow. But he won’t. The blokes a grade A shitweasal. Just fuck off you senile old scroat.

Yes but he is going, you cant really doubt it, and whatever we say it will be on his terms. So why punish ourselves, and risk the club and its support dying off even further?

Disappointing stance from a Trust board member

But not surprising.