What if RD appoints a new CEO with football league experience to run the club on a day to day basis and an English manager with football league experience with his own coaching staff (Chris Wilder),. And these people have the say on who we sign and more importantly play.
RD doesn't sell yet but like all good owners stays in the background to finance the club and allow the football people to do deal with the football matters.
A big What if I know but would this change peoples minds ?
I think for me I would have to get myself back to the Valley and give it a chance
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At the start of this season some were saying "he's learnt his lesson, he's bought well, he's backed Luzon" and we won a few games.
Then he and she reverted to type. Wouldn't back Luzon when the injuries came, sacked him and appointed Fraeye, nearly appointed Nobby.
It's not a manifesto, it doesn't have to be set out in detail and if it was it wouldn't make a very good chant ; - )
What is it that you feel when you see a tremendous piece of art
what is the star child at the end of 2001:a space oddessy?
That's the kind of question you ask when you ask "what does we want our charlton back mean?". As Henry says, there is more to this than finances, managers, players, fan communication, all of which has been dire since this regime took over. There is something deeper, which is personal to each and every one of us and in different ways. A sense of belonging and one-ness with something older than you and older than your grandparents and will be around long after you've kicked the bucket.
If it did we would all have started protesting at the same time. Some have been anti regime for over 2 years. Others protested Saturday for the first time.
Everyone has their own "breaking point" when enough is enough.
Likewise some will decide Roland is forgiven on the appointment of a British manager or after signing certain players. Others won't let up until he is gone and only his stench wafting from Belgium remains.
One of my two Sons made it through - the other got stopped.
My Father who has 70 years of support had the most rigorous search of the lot of us.
Eventually we all got in but it doesn't make for a pleasant start to the experience.
Then again they don't care.
Total and utter disgrace.
Everyone does have a breaking point indeed.
If you can't pinpoint what 'our Charlton' is that's a good thing. RD and KM want their Charlton to be one simple, quiet thing that they can control, but it isn't. It's diffuse and strange and it means something different to every single fan. Them trying to take that away from us is the problem.
I want him gone but if he did those things I don't think I would hate him as much.
If he did those things and the club was in the rise again, he might want to also start looking for a buyer as at the end of the day, he is no longer technically conducting his experiment so it's no longer his toy so he would probably hate the club being run normally.
Sorry for repeating this, but they have adopted a year zero approach from 2014 with the history of the club consigned to the Dustbin (as Meire admitted in Brussels) and longer-term fans who do not go along with regime policies being treated as collateral damage if they disappear (c.3000 ST holders not attending games) or accused of 'not helping' if they stay but criticize.
We Want our Charlton Back will mean different things to different people perhaps but broadly it might be interpreted as a generally accepted desire at the very minimum to have the club run on a proper footing (not as a dictatorship with a puppet CEO) with all that entails. We are not stupid, we know its a business but its a business which needs to function two ways with trust paid to the board and with the appropriate respect paid to the fans. Instead we have seen the club run as a bizarre experiment divorced from any fan engagement which lost its raison d'etre fairly early on and has subsequently descended into a farce of monumental proportion with irreparable damage to certain areas.
That's a big IF though (and an even bigger sentance).
Anyway I believe sinners should have the opportunity to repent. And no, I'm not holding my breath in expectation.