If things continue as they are our already pitiful support will evaporate next season. I really can't see myself renewing next season if the current setup continues.
It's stopped being enjoyable and it's hard to identify with a club being run in such a truly bizarre manner. I came close to leaving a game early for the first time ever last night as it was such a shambles and the atmosphere was so flat.
We're watching a slow motion car crash of a decline being presided over by an owner who is so invisible I'm beginning to wonder if he even exists.
I have reached a stage where I fully expect us to capitulate in every game and if we take the lead I don't expect us to hold on.
No longer angry just sad at what's happened
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I feel your pain but please write to KM and write to RD and tell them what you are saying on here.
They might ignore it, they might not even read it but we've got to try and make them realise just how much damage they are doing.
Do not go quietly into the dark night
That's the lowest I've known it and I think has a reflection on the "through the turnstile" count.
I'd image at least a third must be seriously considering not renewing, perhaps as many as half if we drop into league one.
Actual crowd will be much lower of course
CAFC Facts & Stats @CafcFacts 2h2 hours ago
12,294 last night v #bwfc Charlton's lowest league attendance at home since 3/3/98. A 5-0 win (10,923) v #WBAFC #cafc #target20000
I won't be renewing mine
I had a ST all through late 90s/early 00s while I was at school and then university, but gave it up because of spells on the dole after graduation, then got one again under SCP's management, only to realise I'd be better off buying by the game because of work. But I'm always umming and ahhing each summer when it comes to getting one again. All it'll take is some genuine hope and optimism about the place, a club that is at least showing ambition to progress, a few players who we can fall in love with rather than an ever-changing cast
There must be at least a couple of thousand in the same position. Want to commit to the club, if only it'd give us some indication there's a project to get behind. Instead people are drifting away from The Valley. I've no answers to any of this really, just a whole heap of anger and frustration.
The audience are there but they just don't know how, or are just unable to see, how to tap in it.
They think you'll be lured back with a sofa and some cheerleaders because they just don't get it.
And as long as KM listens to RD and yes men like Tony Keohane and David Joyes instead of fans she never will.
However, I don't think I'll slog my guts out to get to all the games as I did last night. Took me 3 hours to get there last night due to train problems and I missed the first 10 minutes. It took longer to get back and got home at 1.30 this morning. A lot of travelling for 80 minutes of misery.
My kids will not be renewing theirs. So after 40+ years I will be free to do other things on a Saturday.
I recently wrote to Ms Meire and cc'd in Info@ explaining in very polite language that I would not be renewing, unsurprisingly I received no reply from either recipient.
I will return if RD changes his business modal and approach to running our club, or he leaves and takes Pinnochio with him.
* I bloody hate not going to football.
It seems to me that apart from what is going on with the development of Sparrows and the new Valley pitch Duchatelet has got everything else horribly wrong. Frankly the only way RD can get us onside is by putting his priorities into making us worth watching. If we're winning the fans will come back. It really is that simple.
I find it hard to believe he's too thick to see that.
Roland it is quite clear it will not work - others have told you this people respected in the game yet you still believe you are right and they are wrong or bitter ex employees.
Please Please see that it is not working it will not work and either adapt the strategy or cut your losses and sell up to someone who can take this club forward.
I don't like either and simply act as though they don't exist, they don't have an effect on the results on the pitch so whats the point of worrying about silly little things like that?