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Until after the Blackburn game, coz then i can give the Belgians pelters and give them the full blast in the car park after the game.
Forgive my ignorance with the questions but the only concerns i have are...
1) What happens should RD not sell?, or no-one is prepared to pay his asking price.?
2) Could the Valley be sold by RD as an asset to repay the Staprix loan? Or is it safe?
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2) If he owns The Valley outright, he could, I think, put it up for sale. It may be the case that loans to others might need to be paid before a sale could go ahead. Airman would probably know more about that. If the Asset of Value to the Community remained current, he would have to give us - and, I think, the local authority - notice of his intention to sell. One would hope that a decent owner would consider where the club would play thereafter, and put that in place, prior to tenure being taken by the purchaser.
(I think of what Bill Archer did to Brighton & Hove Albion - selling The Goldstone Ground before the club could find another venue).
Presumably (2) would be a good way to make the club as a whole unsellable. I think it would also drag some of the ex-directors in to it, due to their debts being tied up in grounds?
Here's the wording of a couple of the debentures owed by "Charlton Athletic Football Club Company Ltd" today (not Baton 2010 Ltd or Charlton Athletic Holdings Ltd - which most likely own the ground):
2) I don't know.
It will be like the Glikstein era all over again and we may have to battle for the Valley once more, as he raises the price to unrealistic levels season after season - and our poorly supported L1 or L2 side struggles to pay for playing / training facilities.
RD always has the ultimate fallback of using the Valley for much needed housing to recover his debt (currently rising by £1m a month?), as we go back to ground sharing with WHU (or Gills, Orient, Ebbsfleet etc)
RD "doesn't do failure" and this would count as success in his eyes, as he bought something for (say) £50m and sold it for more than that.
That is why they want to alienate the fanbase - because they don't want to risk any "people power" when it comes to Greenwich Council. They want us to get fed up and walk away - which is why we must continue protesting.
If we ever get the chance to buy squares of the playing surface (like Chelsea) we must do this instead of buying shares like we did before to protect our club going forward.
Prepare for tough times everybody, this is going to be a bumpy ride.
I would take the Chuckle Brothers back as owners in a heartbeat, given what we know now.
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?"
The satisfied ones tend to include the date they were satisfied though; for example, here's one of the ones owed to Murray/Chappell which has already been paid off or transferred: