We don't have an IT manager at home but appear to be able to maintain uninterupted internet availability. Wonders of dongles and Virgin media. I worry that the CAFC back office today (& yesterday) is unable to prioritise and deliver the basics like a pitch, comms etc.
Yeah cos providing a network for your Laptop and a couple of family iPads is the same as providing a network for an organisation the size of Charlton Athletic. And mowing your lawn every two weeks is like maintaining a professional football pitch.
CAFC spend around £17M a year of which perhaps £6-7M is on the squad. It's a professional football club so I kinda expect the pitch, the promotional stuff and anything to do with a match day like floodlights to actually work - no excuses. Having a dongle providing 3G to a laptop costs about a tenner a month so yes it is exactly the same as a household or small business. And I expect there's a phone shop or PC world in Charlton so even if no dongle in the office then someone just shoots down the road and buys one to solve the problem.
You are the "master administrator" of a site which has 2 million hits a month so I expect you know a lot more about IT than I do. If something goes wrong on this site then it gets fixed and you are doing this for free.
But even I know that to use a dongle on business pc to overcome such an issue wouldn't work due to security settings otherwise the pc could be very exposed to virus and hacking
I once had to use a 3g dongle for our network when the internet went down. We have adsl backup on a 100mb ethernet fibre nowadays. (I'm an IT manager for a small not for profit in reinsurance a membership co with about 30 staff)
Could still go down though nothing is infallible.
Also high quality video files are pretty big i wouldn't fancy uploading on a dongle but I guess its possible.
Anyway not being critical, these guys are professionals trying to do their jobs. My only gripe is something like this shouldn't in my view be on a pay service.
We don't have an IT manager at home but appear to be able to maintain uninterupted internet availability. Wonders of dongles and Virgin media. I worry that the CAFC back office today (& yesterday) is unable to prioritise and deliver the basics like a pitch, comms etc.
Yeah cos providing a network for your Laptop and a couple of family iPads is the same as providing a network for an organisation the size of Charlton Athletic. And mowing your lawn every two weeks is like maintaining a professional football pitch.
Yeah and knocking one out a couple of times a week is like being the club physio...
I once had to use a 3g dongle for our network when the internet went down. We have adsl backup on a 100mb ethernet fibre nowadays. (I'm an IT manager for a small not for profit in reinsurance a membership co with about 30 staff)
Could still go down though nothing is infallible.
Also high quality video files are pretty big i wouldn't fancy uploading on a dongle but I guess its possible.
Anyway not being critical, these guys are professionals trying to do their jobs. My only gripe is something like this shouldn't in my view be on a pay service.
In my experience, a bad workman always blames his dongle, and if it ain't that, its his ethernet fibre
Yeah, I was cheesed off to have to read through all that dross in some slight hope that there'd be something of interest. Amended the title now, sorry it's too late for you though redcarter.
On the upside, to prevent this becoming an anti-climax Roland will have spent the night buying us a galactic. Like the time I forgot my wife's birthday, though in that occasion I got her a coat, not a footballer.
My guess (no, I haven't seen the video) of what is covered
Very happy to take over Charlton. Tradition, ground, fan base, glad to have RM on board - continuity and experience
Lots of work to do Pitch, training ground, build on successful academy. Worse that we expected. Bring in new ideas and ways of doing things from business and abroad
Ambitious, return to prem but not spend, spend, spend. Financial Fair Play, will use other clubs to strengthen Charlton, mutual benefits to all clubs, will have to be creative
Want to stay up and will support the manager (vague non-committal statement leaving SCPs position up in the air)
Fans very important, need them to back the team, great support in difficult times, future is bright.
I gues he will say how pleased he is to own such a famous and community orientated club. Then he will explain he expects it to run on a sustainable buisness plan, and that there will not be major spending on bringing in players. That he will likely have to sell players to recoup money spent on buying the club including its debits.
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How much more should we, the fans, the paying customers, have to wait ??????
Feel a banner coming on .....
:-)
You are the "master administrator" of a site which has 2 million hits a month so I expect you know a lot more about IT than I do. If something goes wrong on this site then it gets fixed and you are doing this for free.
Could still go down though nothing is infallible.
Also high quality video files are pretty big i wouldn't fancy uploading on a dongle but I guess its possible.
Anyway not being critical, these guys are professionals trying to do their jobs. My only gripe is something like this shouldn't in my view be on a pay service.
In all seriousness I am just looking forward to our owner's mouth moving and words that are audible to the fan base coming out.
"I was considering changing the team colours to match the Belgian international strip but Katrien haas told me you already play in red so that is ok'
"I might change the club name to Charlton Muscle as that sounds manly and athletic. Oh wait a minute. "Athletic" sounds kinda athletic"
Pass the woffles
Very happy to take over Charlton. Tradition, ground, fan base, glad to have RM on board - continuity and experience
Lots of work to do Pitch, training ground, build on successful academy. Worse that we expected. Bring in new ideas and ways of doing things from business and abroad
Ambitious, return to prem but not spend, spend, spend. Financial Fair Play, will use other clubs to strengthen Charlton, mutual benefits to all clubs, will have to be creative
Want to stay up and will support the manager (vague non-committal statement leaving SCPs position up in the air)
Fans very important, need them to back the team, great support in difficult times, future is bright.