Online Fans Meeting With Club Directors This Wednesday

Off_it said:

carly burn said:

IdleHans said:

"I can ensure you..."?
FFS

Check the dictionary bud. Ensure is a far stronger commitment than assure.

Yeah, it is, but you don't say, "I can ensure you ...." - that's just a mistake and he means "assure".

If he'd said "I will ensure ..." then that's him saying he will make sure it happens.

Perhaps he's an insurance salesman and he meant "I can insure you"?

I heard the other week that a former manager of ours was less than complimentary about Martin and was quite descriptive about what he’d do to him if their paths crossed again.

First question should be have spoken to Brighton like Ipswich have and ask for their knowledge in transfers and running of a football club 

With the meeting tomorrow I'd guess that they would have wanted more to shout about than two loan signings, one of whom isn't fully fit.

Not sure this will be the opportunity to reassure concerned fans that perhaps they hoped it would be on Friday night when they agreed the  transfer fee with Peterborough for JCH.

But still 36 hours to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

One thing I do hope, is that people ask the right questions and they aren't flooded with questions that aren't as challenging. Make no mistake, they'll answer the less challenging questions instead. Common tactic for events like this. We don't need to know if JCH is any closer as we have our answer for that already, or if Gillesphey failed a medical. These are the questions they can make a massive story out of and spin it all as positive PR. 

The questions should be - 

Why is Appleton still here after managing to register only one win in ten?

How are you going to convince people to buy season tickets when the football is poor and fans are rapidly falling out of love with the club, will you make assurances about squad improvement?

Why do we consistently sign players who aren't ready to start from the moment they're in the door? 

Why do the likes of Oxford United and Peterborough have more talented squads than us in this division repeatedly, what do our scouts actually do? 

Why are the club allowing our players to listen to such shit music. 😉

Give them the easy questions and they'll lap it up and sound busy. 

Either way look forward to it.

Braziliance said:

One thing I do hope, is that people ask the right questions and they aren't flooded with questions that aren't as challenging. Make no mistake, they'll answer the less challenging questions instead. Common tactic for events like this. We don't need to know if JCH is any closer as we have our answer for that already, or if Gillesphey failed a medical. These are the questions they can make a massive story out of and spin it all as positive PR. 

The questions should be - 

Why is Appleton still here after managing to register only one win in ten?

How are you going to convince people to buy season tickets when the football is poor and fans are rapidly falling out of love with the club, will you make assurances about squad improvement?

Why do we consistently sign players who aren't ready to start from the moment they're in the door? 

Why do the likes of Oxford United and Peterborough have more talented squads than us in this division repeatedly, what do our scouts actually do? 

Why are the club allowing our players to listen to such shit music. 😉

Give them the easy questions and they'll lap it up and sound busy. 

Either way look forward to it.

I thought a while back Andy S said we'd sacked off 2 of our scouts, not heard they were actually replaced?

Off_it said:

carly burn said:

IdleHans said:

"I can ensure you..."?
FFS

Check the dictionary bud. Ensure is a far stronger commitment than assure.

Yeah, it is, but you don't say, "I can ensure you ...." - that's just a mistake and he means "assure".

If he'd said "I will ensure ..." then that's him saying he will make sure it happens.

The dictionary will also give a meaning to 'patronising'

PS, an online meeting lets these get away from feeling the heat as being in the same room as fans.

Engaging with fans is a huge positive and a very welcome one. However, I think the topics i believe most Charlton fans are interested in ie. Squad strengthening / promotion push (next season realistically)/ purchase of the Valley and SL and long term security of the club will not really be addressed adequately. 

Kips said:

Henry Irving said:

With the meeting tomorrow I'd guess that they would have wanted more to shout about than two loan signings, one of whom isn't fully fit.

Not sure this will be the opportunity to reassure concerned fans that perhaps they hoped it would be on Friday night when they agreed the  transfer fee with Peterborough for JCH.

But still 36 hours to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

I'm not even sure they've got a hat let alone a rabbit. 

They’ve got a hat but it’s borrowed, in need of repair and not been worn in 18 months.

IF the new owners and Board confidently and assuredly set out a plan for development and competitiveness for the club we all love, I would really like to understand how they envisage our hardcore fans might help them in bringing better times back to our football club? I was a Liverpool fan (family roots) until aged 14, but campaigning to get back to the Valley, clearing the Valley, growing out of shorts and doing a little bit to help the Valley Party effort while witnessing the passion and determination in meetings (no Zoom back then and needing a lift to meetings 🤣) of the likes of Barry Nugent, Rick Everitt, Steve Dixon, Richard Hunt, Ben Tegg and others created a fandom and stickiness to the club that pre-those experiences I would unlikely have had. 

ElfsborgAddick said:

Ducktapeshoerepairs said:

Engaging with fans is a huge positive and a very welcome one. However, I think the topics i believe most Charlton fans are interested in ie. Squad strengthening / promotion push (next season realistically)/ purchase of the Valley and SL and long term security of the club will not really be addressed adequately. 

As much as Murray sold his bum to the Belgians, he was fantastic at the end of season Bromley meetings I attended in the Premier League years.  He was very open and they made for very informative evenings.

I'd not cross the road to listen to the hot air and s*** these clowns come out with.

‘sold his bum’ possibly my favourite ever Charlton Life quote 🤣🤣🤣

killerandflash said:

I'm not entirely sure what the point of this meeting is, seeing that most of the grouses/questions at the moment concern the team and transfer issues, and nobody involved in either the first team or recruitment will be there.

And seeing that the window is open, even if Andy Scott was there, he'd just say that there's lots of discussions and negotiations going on, but it's all confidential.

The season is over. We have nothing else. ☹️