Good interview and a lot of positives to come out of it, including speaking to certain fan groups in the summer.
"I will really try to work with the fans as much as possible. I said before there is a bit of a breach in trust towards certain (fan) groups but we will work on that in the summer and find a way to work together. We need the fans"
So maybe, just maybe she may now decide to have another word with the trust during the summer and hopefully both parties can come to some understanding and we can all move forward.
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The admission that mistakes were made by KM (in previous interview) is helpful and that maybe accepting that the strength of the championship was underestimated would be helpful too. Nobody's perfect on all sides and nobody should expect that mistakes are not made. Acknowledging / pointing out where things are not working should not be forbidden. Rome is also not built in one day. Striving to do the best and getting it right is the thing.
It sounds promising though that KM is making positive statements regarding bringing all the supporters together. A bit of good will and lightness (from all) will help that. Together with maintaining and strengthening the playing side and united management, playing and coaching staff and supporter base, Charlton look in a good position next season to push for the top 6 and promotion. If the club moves together, Charlton will be a strong force and difficult to stop.
His plan is to have Charlton running like clockwork within two years. Not much more than that.
Not just a few wins , which of course helps and will prolly stop some drifting away
Our crowds are going down
And it'll take more experienced people than a couple of chic advertising geeks and a charming yet inexperienced chief executive from Belgium to help arrest this slide
Don't bite your nose to spite your face get the gurus and brainpower who helped turn this dull South London clubs crowds around in the 90's because as you're gonna find out the hard way , it doesn't just happen
If there is a drop off, and if the regime are concerned about that, it might be prudent to try to find out why, and then take possible action if it is possible to do so.
anyway we will see how it pans out! Rolland is going nowhere we know this - but i think Meire may get the boot in the summer if things don't progress.
all this giggling and antics only smooth over the cracks! it wont stop the subsidence!
If you take, for example, the current chair of the trust, she has spent 12 months refusing to engage with him, using a variety of excuses - the priority bring her personal fight against relegation, the need to do everything through the fans' forum, now apparently it is what some other bloke said on a train or what some other bloke shouted out in the street. Or perhaps daring to put on a public meeting that she couldn't control?
Yet she has never met Steve Clarke, who actually has more experience as a director of the club - and certainly a more extensive knowledge of it - than she does. So she has never established any trust to breach. She has simply hidden behind a stream of nonsensical excuses and continues to do so.
I suspect that what she really means is that she won't speak to anyone who criticises her or her boss - not breaches trust, but expresses their own opinion.
Just perhaps he was hoping to play the "I'm the new guy so let's move on from the many mistakes made both sides in the past and work on rebuilding some trust and a constructive relationship".
Less chance of that happening now IMHO.
A real shame.