Martin Samuel drops a tonne of excrement on Katrien Meire in The Mail...

Ormiston_Addick

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4145894/FA-need-hire-women-not-Charlton-s-Katrien-Meire.html

Holy shit, how many other CEO's of League One teams are so incompetent that they make the Premier League obsessed national press?

Great work Katrien, you have finally made the big time, might have been an idea to sort the day job out first before creating a media profile for yourself.

It certainly would not be entirely unreasonable to compare Meire to US nut-job politician Sarah 'Hillbilly' Palin, both very similar in their backgrounds and conduct.

SDAddick

Ormiston Addick said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4145894/FA-need-hire-women-not-Charlton-s-Katrien-Meire.html

Holy shit, how many other CEO's of League One teams are so incompetent that they make the Premier League obsessed national press?

Great work Katrien, you have finally made the big time, might have been an idea to sort the day job out first before creating a media profile for yourself.

It certainly would not be entirely unreasonable to compare Meire to US nut-job politician Sarah 'Hillbilly' Palin, both very similar in their backgrounds and conduct.

No, they're very much not. Katrien is a lawyer, Sarah Palin has a high school diploma. Just because they're women in the spot light who were both given jobs they weren't qualified for does not make them the same.

Yes, I am standing up for KM here to a degree, but only because Sarah Palin was drastically less qualified and given a job exponentially more serious.

JiMMy 85

Well... Now that's been cleared up... pleased to see Meire getting a high profile kicking!

aliwibble

Maybe Kelly Anne Conway is a better comparison? Also originally had a career in law, and now has to defend a bloke prone to batshit public outbursts...

Dave2l

Yep pretty spot on

Ormiston_Addick

SDAddick said:

Ormiston Addick said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4145894/FA-need-hire-women-not-Charlton-s-Katrien-Meire.html

Holy shit, how many other CEO's of League One teams are so incompetent that they make the Premier League obsessed national press?

Great work Katrien, you have finally made the big time, might have been an idea to sort the day job out first before creating a media profile for yourself.

It certainly would not be entirely unreasonable to compare Meire to US nut-job politician Sarah 'Hillbilly' Palin, both very similar in their backgrounds and conduct.

No, they're very much not. Katrien is a lawyer, Sarah Palin has a high school diploma. Just because they're women in the spot light who were both given jobs they weren't qualified for does not make them the same.

Yes, I am standing up for KM here to a degree, but only because Sarah Palin was drastically less qualified and given a job exponentially more serious.

Sorry mate, will have to disagree here.

KM might have a law degree but worth remembering that George W Bush had an MBA and went to Yale, don't prove a damn thing.

I think they are very similar, Palin got noticed by Bill Kristol and launched onto the national stage when she was nowhere near qualified to do so.

The same happened with Meire, she came under Roland's wing and somehow got parachuted into the CEO slot of a football club despite no experience as CEO or in football at all.

Both of them were then very quickly exposed because they had no idea what they were doing - something that was easily identifiable as soon as they went before the media and public.

grumpyaddick

I would opt for Palin over Nightmeire as our CEO every time.

She maybe a nutter and have an IQ lower than current east stand attendances but at least she is not entirely dependent on an over-indulgent old man for her career to date.

Bangkokaddick

I don't care about the comparisons with Palin. This is an excellent, hard-hitting article and more national press coverage from a well-respected journalist.

SoundAsa£

Sorry guys, can we please consider ditching the Sarah Palin business......it has precious little to do with the article or subject matter of the thread...... IMHO this article is pretty important and the thread simply doesn't warrant being side tracked on a debate regarding similarities(or non similarities), between Sarah Palin and our very own Pussy Galore.

Callumcafc

Great article.

cafc999

The FA know all about her lack of delivery,lies and lack of time keeping. Oh, and don't forget that 99% of football chairmen don't like her either

ElfsborgAddick

cafc999 said:

The FA know all about her lack of delivery,lies and lack of time keeping. Oh, and don't forget that 99% of football chairmen don't like her either

Only 99%?

hoof_it_up_to_benty

The article is a glowing reference.....

1StevieG

10 managers?

BDL

https://twitter.com/mattjobob/status/823419615799812097

Forgot all about this, wonder who else she wined and dined. Didn't go well though did it.

Bet this article can't be found on Google in a few weeks!

The Red Robin

BDL said:

https://twitter.com/mattjobob/status/823419615799812097

Forgot all about this, wonder who else she wined and dined. Didn't go well though did it.

Bet this article can't be found on Google in a few weeks!

It'll always be on Twitter though.

cafc999

ElfsborgAddick said:

cafc999 said:

The FA know all about her lack of delivery,lies and lack of time keeping. Oh, and don't forget that 99% of football chairmen don't like her either

Only 99%?

Richard Murray is the 1%

The Red Robin

Very good read actually. Well informed.

boggzy

Great article.

Didn't know about the blow-up trophy!

oohaahmortimer

When did the out of depth one have off the record dinners with the press , that is so sad and desperate , oh look at poor hard done by me , I'm not really pony , twat

ForeverAddickted

boggzy said:

Great article.

Didn't know about the blow-up trophy!

I remember seeing Joey Barton messing around with it on the TV, I thought it had been given to them by a fan though rather than the Football League

shine166

ElfsborgAddick said:

cafc999 said:

The FA know all about her lack of delivery,lies and lack of time keeping. Oh, and don't forget that 99% of football chairmen don't like her either

Only 99%?

Well it would be 100% but our cunt of an owner has her in puppet mode

J BLOCK

For the amount of money spent on PR consultants and expensive dinners you could have just sacked the silly girl and hired someone who could actually do the job. But that would be logical right?

blackpool72

1StevieG said:

10 managers?

He's referring to next month

Henry Irving

Well we all know what her expensive Google clean people will be doing today.

RedChaser

Excellent, great minds Henners. Tom Rubashore, have you tried pushing water up hill? What's that Max Clifford doing these days? .........Scrap that.

man_at_milletts

Henry Irving said:

Well we all know what her expensive Google clean people will be doing today.

Indeed, and while you may be able to clean google, you can't clean peoples' memories.

HantsAddick

Shame for her that humans don't come with a delete button.

Stig

Will done to Samuel for highlighting Meire's complete and utter incompetence.

seth plum

Expensive off the record dinners with the press?
I assume she is paying, not the club.
Doubt it though.
We can't afford to hire in a boiler.
Loads of fans inconvenienced, and put to extra expense.
Katrien is on the F.A. governance group already at some level, positioned because there were not enough candidates.
Katrien seems to love herself in inverse proportion to her distain for Charlton fans.
Clean this up Google.

MuttleyCAFC

It is ridiculous and an iditement on the sport that there are so few women in it that the FA appointed Meire. This needs to change, and if our next CEO was a woman, just a competent one unlike Meire, we would all be more than happy with that. Until then it is better for the FA to admit it has a problem and try to solve it, rather than appoint somebody so useless to a role because of her sex. It does not solve the problem, it papers over the cracks.