Fellas, I don't go on here to often but I love my Club but enough is enough.
Something has to be done but must be done in unity.
Together we got the Valley back, together we support the club , a lot of highs and lows together, but we must do something to stop the rot - Its pretty clear RD does not care about CHARLTON ATHLETIC. sorry but a new pitch doenst cut it for me, Harris who was gonna buy us out would have done a far better job and I think we all agree that Slater and Jimenez cared more! Hes been given a chance and now needs to F*** Off before we are destroyed totally.
I suggest boycotting or at least backs to the pitch, the players aint silly they know its backs to RD not them! or just a good old protest out side the ground in our thousands. Slate me if you want, Give me a load of abuse, but im sick to the back teeth of it and im not paying to be there at the moment because I refuse to ultimately give my money to RD. that is the long and short of it.
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Roland's done terrible things to this club but his failure won't leave us in administration, that's where we WERE headed and no doubt about it in my mind. Other potential buyers I can't judge but I assure you, from where I am standing Duchatalet is by far the lesser of two evils.
Better idea would be for 20,000 fans to stump up £5k each - buy the club for what RD paid for it - give the new manager Curbishley £50m to buy promotion next season - and appoint Paulie as the new Chairman. You know it makes sense.
Either that or someone come up with a brilliant design for paper aeroplanes.
In terms of the owners it is either a quick death or a slow death. Who knows what happens if as looks likely that Charlton slides into League One and Duchatelet still insists on the club breaks even. Or maybe Loic Nego is now a viable option at the club ?
Duchatalet is doing great damage but it's nowhere near as bad as the situation we would have had if we hadn't been sold when we were. Slater and Jiminez don't get excused for spending no money by having no money - they had it, or knew the man/men who did, and they squandered that chance. The lack of funds was entirely their fault.
Mediocre football and a club going nowhere is not going to ensure its existence. What is going to happen to Orient in the shadow of the Olympic stadium and WHU and premiership riches. What is going to happen to Charlton ?
Why can't Charlton get a decent owner ? Southampton, Brentford and Bournemouth have decent owners who invest, so why not Charlton ?
They left a blank canvas for Duchatelet with none of the older players on big money long term deals.
Katrien Meire said it was a mess and her cheerleaders said well done for clearing it up. But putting in a new pitch, new seats and bringing in some half decent players was the easy bit! And I've been 100% consistent stating that and supporting the first nine months of Staprix ownership.
The thing is that the last three months have revealed that the current CAFC board is not fit for purpose.
Perhaps they will listen to intelligent suggestions now they are in the shite? Who knows? I will feed my input into the meeting and to those I know on the Trust board. But I won't hold my breath waiting for decent loan signings to back the club out of this nose dive in form.
I've noticed this in other threads but felt it worthy of pointing out; petty digs and point scoring aside - it demonstrates that he's actually got a realistic view, without bias, and is trying to look at things as they develop. Good work, and well worth a bit of a applause in my opinion.
Now back on topic, I posted the following post on this thread, but maybe it's better suited here;
Well i know it's a bit shit but it the sentiment that matters!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9r1IWgUj6Q
He did react following that protest and said he would leave but on 2 conditions. 'It will be two conditions. First, 90% of the club's current business partners continue to support this team. Then half of Standard subscribers endorse my decision to hand over the club.'
This was in July 2013- reported here -> http://sportmagazine.levif.be/sport/foot-national/officiel-duchatelet-degage-du-standard/article-normal-217975.html
He is quoted as saying; "This situation is no longer acceptable. Especially what happened Thursday is the straw that broke the camel. This is incompatible with my current vision of football, " he told Sudpresse.
Too many people have said he cannot be influenced when clearly he can be. That was 18 months ago and he is still there but it is incorrect for people to assume he was unaffected by those events.