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Another brilliant long article from The Guardian

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  • "Joe Read, an 18-year-old Charlton fan who spoke passionately at the AGM and started a successful campaign to persuade fans to wear black and white to register their disapproval,"

    Well done Joe, inspired idea : - 0

    Hahaha, sorry.

    I did say it was just the twitter account I started :-)
    Just pulling your leg,

    more than happy for you to be the poster boy of Black and White.
  • seth plum said:

    I reckon Owen Gibson has taken it all out of context though :wink:

    Yeah, that article makes them sound like a bunch of wilfully negligent turnips.
  • Yet more embarrassment for her. An attempt to try and smooth things over has only led to her digging an even bigger hole for herself by giving us even more evidence that she is completely clueless and still doesn't get it
  • 'cow beast' hahahahahahaha
  • There's a tremendous amount of Meire nonsense in there as per usual but the thing that really got my blood boling was quite a small throwaway comment on the end of some thing she said.

    'We all love this club'.

    Piss off you absolute cow beast. Love the club? Some ancient Lovecraftian businessman sat in his office shrugging at protests hundreds of miles away who hasn't been to see a match in over a year and his unqualified, un-PR trained harridan of a CEO who laughs at us out of one side of her mouth and lies out of the other 'love' the club. The club that fans brought back from the brink and are 'weird' for feeling ownership of. The club that they are tearing apart piece by piece and sending down the Football League to oblivion? They love it do they?

    Jesus Christ, if this is how they treat the things they love I'd hate to see the state of their enemies.

    She only uses the "l" word 'cos " Love means never having to say you're sorry".

    Wonder whether KM has EVER apologised in her life ?

  • Depressing read.

    He ain't selling
    She ain't going


    Create a business around a budget even if that didn't work
  • So pleased that the Dublin interview was filmed ... she can say she was quoted 'out of context' as much as she likes, but the truth is out there.

    Good article ... I get the impression that even though our new Comms Head hasn't yet started, he/she may already be advising KM.
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  • I wonder if the new Head of Communications has a hand in this? I hope not, but this as well as Riga's similar sentiments ("love the club etc") have the whiff of being part of a bigger media strategy.

    The club hierarchy seem to think that buttering up the press and feeding them the same lies and assurances they have tried on us will win the media over. It might for a short while - it did us to a some extent - but in a month when Murray and Meire are asked how they have communicated with fans, what will they answer then?

    And if squirrel face thinks that this might have calmed things down, then Saturday ought to put her right on that.

  • "The beauty of the Championship is that it is the most competitive league in the world.”



    Stop going on about how great the Championship is.

    She still doesn't get that our ambition should be to progress from this 'beautiful' league - otherwise what's the point?

    Interestingly, that quote is word for word what Stan Collymore said on talkSPORT when he wad discussing the Charlton situation.

    Now either it's a complete coincidence... or someone's been busy doing their homework.
  • mogodon said:

    I wonder if the new Head of Communications has a hand in this? I hope not, but this as well as Riga's similar sentiments ("love the club etc") have the whiff of being part of a bigger media strategy.

    The club hierarchy seem to think that buttering up the press and feeding them the same lies and assurances they have tried on us will win the media over. It might for a short while - it did us to a some extent - but in a month when Murray and Meire are asked how they have communicated with fans, what will they answer then?

    And if squirrel face thinks that this might have calmed things down, then Saturday ought to put her right on that.

    Damage limitation exercise from her ... not good enough, too late ... and she has a PA shitstorm to hit her over the coming weeks
  • LuckyReds said:


    "The beauty of the Championship is that it is the most competitive league in the world.”



    Stop going on about how great the Championship is.

    She still doesn't get that our ambition should be to progress from this 'beautiful' league - otherwise what's the point?

    Interestingly, that quote is word for word what Stan Collymore said on talkSPORT when he wad discussing the Charlton situation.

    Now either it's a complete coincidence... or someone's been busy doing their homework.
    Stan Collymore is our new Head of Comms ?????

    KM will never understand what he's saying !

    he managed to get the position because he owns a videotape of roland and katrien in the car park. They were filling in a hole or two apparently.
  • Think Owen was charmed by her in the end. He replied to my tweet saying it could be down to her second language. Not join. That, she is fluent in English

    This excuse sounds like complete unadulterated BS.

    I understand it's different, and that the Swedish education system is generally looked upon as one of the best in the world, but whenever someone talks about second languages in business I remember a conversation I had in a sports bar in Lund, Sweden. I got talking to a chap who used to work at Sony, and now worked across the water in Copenhagen - I asked him about his Danish, or whether Swedish was close enough to be understandable in the context of the workplace. His repsonse was, to quote, "This is business. In business you either speak English or you die, I even haven a t-shirt with that on it.".

    He even bemoaned having to deal with clients in Newcastle because their English was poor, naturally I told them they were essentially foreigners to us Englishmen too. ;)

    However, anyone I've liaised with professionally from another country has had impeccable English. I have worked with people from all over Europe, and a few Eastern European countries aside (predominantly ex-soviet countries which still seem to identify with the Russians - i.e Latvians), their English has far surpassed that which would explain Katrien's performance as mere linguistic nuances.

    A deeply unfair excuse to hide behind because it gives others a bad name and is an injustice to those who work and run businesses here without any such nonsense.
  • edited January 2016
    There used to be a yearly booklet sent out by ExxonMobil to its employees showing what a global company it was and the good deeds it does round the World a truely "global family"
    The CEO of ExxonMobil visited the Uk (to tell Blair off) and he had "meeting with the staff" questions could be asked, but these were vetted pre the "open" meeting.
    They were the same questions from the floor at the London office as they were at Leatherhead. However one chap asked ANOTHER question and the CEO didnt like it, his response ?
    " We are an American company with American values and American ways of doing business, if you dont like it sir im sure there are other oil company's that you could work for !!"

    always made me chuckle to get that booklet---seems Roland has met the former CEO of ExxonMobil Mr Lee Raymond
  • Walloons.

    I thought this term referenced Belgian people.

    We does the CAFC experience involve a literal Wally and his Loon.

    Belgian football is class and yet we've a non football focused owner who got laughed out of his national game.

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  • Wasn't the meeting she had was with 200 hand picked guests?
  • Henry irvings comments under the article certainly pull no punches lolz
  • Charlton was ahead of everyone else in having a fan on the board. It opened its doors to the fans very early on and didn’t suffer at all and gained from it,” said Efford. “Perhaps Charlton could consider reintroducing that in the near future to take the fans with them.”
    Quite, whatever happened to that?
  • Henry irvings comments under the article certainly pull no punches lolz

    Oh dear, I don't think the "real" @Henry Irving is going to like that much.

  • LuckyReds said:

    Think Owen was charmed by her in the end. He replied to my tweet saying it could be down to her second language. Not join. That, she is fluent in English

    This excuse sounds like complete unadulterated BS.

    I understand it's different, and that the Swedish education system is generally looked upon as one of the best in the world, but whenever someone talks about second languages in business I remember a conversation I had in a sports bar in Lund, Sweden. I got talking to a chap who used to work at Sony, and now worked across the water in Copenhagen - I asked him about his Danish, or whether Swedish was close enough to be understandable in the context of the workplace. His repsonse was, to quote, "This is business. In business you either speak English or you die, I even haven a t-shirt with that on it.".

    He even bemoaned having to deal with clients in Newcastle because their English was poor, naturally I told them they were essentially foreigners to us Englishmen too. ;)

    However, anyone I've liaised with professionally from another country has had impeccable English. I have worked with people from all over Europe, and a few Eastern European countries aside (predominantly ex-soviet countries which still seem to identify with the Russians - i.e Latvians), their English has far surpassed that which would explain Katrien's performance as mere linguistic nuances.

    A deeply unfair excuse to hide behind because it gives others a bad name and is an injustice to those who work and run businesses here without any such nonsense.
    My brother-in-law has run his own very successful computer business in Belgium for over twenty years, he only ever uses English while doing business (and most of the rest of the time, too). When I have been to Brussels I have noticed that even in bars and restaurants work colleagues quite often talk to each other in English when socialising, I guess because of the French v Flemish thing?
  • edited January 2016

    Henry irvings comments under the article certainly pull no punches lolz

    A. Do you think Steve Clarke Is Henry ?
    B. Yet another in joke ?
    C. Power is going to My(your) head. ?
    D. Anyone that doesn't agree with me is an enemy
    E. Whooooooosh.
  • Charlton was ahead of everyone else in having a fan on the board. It opened its doors to the fans very early on and didn’t suffer at all and gained from it,” said Efford. “Perhaps Charlton could consider reintroducing that in the near future to take the fans with them.”
    Quite, whatever happened to that?

    Millwall still do
  • Article summed up the situation well. However, she is still here, and claiming to love our club???? Who is she trying to kid? Also he's not selling! At least JR says he's not network and wants to be boss of his dressing room. He can use that as the reason if RD gets rid again.
  • Henry irvings comments under the article certainly pull no punches lolz

    A. Do you think Steve Clarke Is Henry ?
    B. Yet another in joke ?
    C. Power is going to My(your) head. ?
    D. Anyone that doesn't agree with me is an enemy
    E. Whooooooosh.
    ????!
  • There's only two Henry Irvings...
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