CAFC STATEMENT

eaststandmike

Maybe this is Mel's contribution via her new post in the comms team. I reckon she has been working on that for 3 weeks.

i_b_b_o_r_g

soapy_jones said:

FUCK OFF YOU BELGIAN CUNTS

scuse your flemish

Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch

Another token gesture comment from the regime.

guinnessaddick

Thought it was the club saying they now know who filled out the form that was sent to Companies House.

LoOkOuT

"Please buy a season ticket. Please. Please. Please."

InspectorSands

eaststandmike said:

Maybe this is Mel's contribution via her new post in the comms team. I reckon she has been working on that for 3 weeks.

If you have KM as a boss, it's probably taken 3 weeks to persuade her to release a statement that is anything other than "na na, everything is alright, you're all weird".

johnnyhumphrey

As Joannie Taylor would say--

What a load of old shit.

SDAddick

Genuinely, my first thought was "well, at least they didn't make it worse."

Anna_Kissed

Sniff. Pass me the tissues, please. The management is "extremely saddened by the situation".
What a farce! How about something along the lines of 'We now recognise that we got it wrong from the start. We're sorry we've made a mockery of the club that you have supported for many years".
But no, not a bit of it.
The management is to blame for the shambles that CAFC has become. I could make a list, but it would be so long, my wrist would hurt. Management can be 'saddened' ('extremely' so) from this day to eternity and it won't mask the mess that has been made of our once-decent and respected club.
Our message will be the same in May, through the close season, into next Autumn and beyond. For the avoidance of doubt, that message is "You are not wanted here, Roland Duchatelet. Go, please, the sooner the better. When you're gone, we can rebuild the shambles into what we desire."
And until you do decide to go, we'll be opposing your meddling, muddled half-baked experiment each and every day. Save yourself and your CEO the hassle. Sell up, and get out of our club.

Harry Gregory

yawn! PR bollox. Just go

stonemuse

C_A_F_C said:

It's a statement for the sake of making a statement because the protests have been all over national tv, we won't hear anymore.

Exactly this, it's been done for the media ...the protests continue ...we will win

Henry Irving

Rob62 said:

Bedsaddick said:

Strange. Perhaps it's beginning to sink in ? That statement could only have come from Katrein or RD himself. Trouble is it's too little too late.

No way that has come from Roland, and very much doubt it's from Katrien. I would bet good money on this being an initiative from the new comms lead.

That's is exactly what I thought.

I think she trying to end the "pretend there isn't a problem" culture.

Not sure it will work but at least Mel appears to be trying.

stonemuse

EveshamAddick said:

So now the Trust should issue a public statement asking to meet with Roland again. See what happens this time. And then publicise what happens.

Definitely

andynelson

It's not the fans they should want to meet, it's Peter Varney.

olster

Henry Irving said:

Rob62 said:

Bedsaddick said:

Strange. Perhaps it's beginning to sink in ? That statement could only have come from Katrein or RD himself. Trouble is it's too little too late.

No way that has come from Roland, and very much doubt it's from Katrien. I would bet good money on this being an initiative from the new comms lead.

That's is exactly what I thought.

I think she trying to end the "pretend there isn't a problem" culture.

Not sure it will work but at least Mel appears to be trying.

Fine, but it still doesn't say anything of substance.

Stone

RedChaser said:

Don't be fooled, it's just another plug for target 20k

It'll be target 2,000 at this rate.

Atletico Addick

You can't build bridges between us and Katrien, Mel, when she is seen on live tv laughing and putting her thumbs up amongst this all while she sits between 20 security guards.

Nice effort but you have lost the fanbase's trust, no amount of apologies and rally cries will get us back on side - we have one goal and that requires everyone and everything involved with this regime to leave the Club and completely leave it.

Even if Roland sells up it has to be to someone he does not know in any way, no relations, otherwise it carries on.

MuttleyCAFC

I think we should view it as a success that the club has issued a statement such as that. Of course the solution is for them to accept they have cocked it all up and sell to the people who have indicted they want to buy the club. I don't see any other way to fix this. Maybe sacking Miere a couple of months back, but it is too late now unfortunately.

Fanny Fanackapan

alan dugdale said:

"Working together with the fans" ? That's why squirrel face was smirking during Operaton Beachball.

We saddened them ? Fucking rich that.

We saddened them ?

FFS !

They're breaking our bloody hearts !

jamescafc

stonemuse said:

EveshamAddick said:

So now the Trust should issue a public statement asking to meet with Roland again. See what happens this time. And then publicise what happens.

Definitely

No, the trust should publicly disclose the number of times they have already offered to sit down with the club, all of which, to the best of my knowledge, have either been declined or not taken seriously.

I'd like to see them then publicly state the time has passed, bridges have been well and truly burnt and that they wish for Roland to sell up to someone who cares...!!!

Duncan270566

Sorry, but that image of a smug grinning KM doesn't show how saddened they are

Missed It

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the relationship between Ms Meire and the fans is destroyed and beyond repair.

She can smirk and issue pointless statements all she likes but the only way to fix this is for the Belgians to sell the club and bugger off.

ken_shabby

Why do we need a CARD statement. Grapevine wrote something perfect on here in the last two days, coherently dismantling everything this pathetic regime have said and done in their horrible tenure at the Valley.

Just need to cut and paste the soapyjones statement on the bottom, and send it out to the world's media.

LeaburnForEngland

jamescafc said:

stonemuse said:

EveshamAddick said:

So now the Trust should issue a public statement asking to meet with Roland again. See what happens this time. And then publicise what happens.

Definitely

No, the trust should publicly disclose the number of times they have already offered to sit down with the club, all of which, to the best of my knowledge, have either been declined or not taken seriously.

I'd like to see them then publicly state the time has passed, bridges have been well and truly burnt and that they wish for Roland to sell up to someone who cares...!!!

This - although I assume that's part of Mel's strategy here. If the Trust or CARD do say that then they can shrug their shoulders and say "look, we've tried to talk to them now, and they won't". I don't think the press would fall for it, the fans wouldn't (apart from the usual suspects) but maybe Roland would and if that keeps Pinocchio employed then I think that would be the main objective of the exercise met.

carly burn

Don't like the wording. They are not the club.

We,the supporters, are the club.

They are the regime rapidly flushing it down the toilet.

shirty5

We would have got Away with it, if it wasn't for you pesky university of Greenwich students.

Dave2l

For what little I expect from them....that's actually a good effort.

NornIrishAddick

aliwibble said:

Every supporter has the right to voice their opinion and we are determined to do everything we can to work together with supporters to build our relationship with them and make sure they remain at the heart of this club.Every supporter has the right to voice their opinion and we are determined to do everything we can to work together with supporters to build our relationship with them and make sure they remain at the heart of this club.

EVERYTHING? So Katrien Meire is willing to have substantive discussions with the Supporters Trust regarding the strategy for the club, without using Johnnie Jackson as a human shield or diluting the discussion with day to day operational trivia? Roland is willing to employ a manager and other backroom staff with appropriate experience of the Championship / League One, and build a squad of players with sufficient experience of the English Leagues to allow our young players to develop appropriately rather than being thrown into a cobbled together group of misfits and no-hopers not suited for the rigours of the season ? Will they both accept that the prime factor in fans having a good matchday experience is success on the pitch? That we're supporters, not customers, and we want to support a football club, not a player farm?

Yeah, right.

And I'm a highly paid supermodel.

Don't forget to pout for the camera....

Davo55

MrLargo said:

From what I've read elsewhere on here, she didn't look that saddened when the cameras were pointing at her this afternoon. Pretty sure the word "smiling" was used.

That grin was sheer rictus. She was and is terrified. Out of her depth. Being out-thought and outmanoeuvred continuously.

stonemuse

Davo55 said:

MrLargo said:

From what I've read elsewhere on here, she didn't look that saddened when the cameras were pointing at her this afternoon. Pretty sure the word "smiling" was used.

That grin was sheer rictus. She was and is terrified. Out of her depth. Being out-thought and outmanoeuvred continuously.

My thoughts too ...and now she has to explain it all to Roland