Of course all is not suddenly okay but I am willing to throw my support back behind things and will not be protesting. I will now be renewing my season ticket. I believe it is a short term strategy from RD - one to get us up so he can sell and not make massive losses. However, the way I see it is, if we go up and he doesn't sell but continues then that's fine - I like the academy investment and maybe the realism that that is the future has to be acknowledged - allied to a good football management structure (which has been missing) might just see the whole thing work (regardless of meire's foot in the mouth prem stars of the future stuff - if we have a chance of going up to prem I believe we will go for it but not at all costs - just that she can't articulate herself properly).
The worst case scenario is if we don't go up - he won't sell then and we may end up as this lower league player farm we are all worried about. So on that basis, regardless of whether its seen as supporting 'the enemy' I will be fully behind the team in getting back up next year. Plenty of good derbies as well.
Except it's not the worst thing is it? This lot have proven over several years now they have not the first clue about providing the environment or resources to be a competitive club in the Championship, let alone one pushing for promotion. They've had several opportunities to change tack but preferred to point out that it's not our club, go on the offensive against the fans, they know what they are doing, blah, blah, blah. All the while we've plummeted downwards, fans and sponsors have left in droves, our utterly inept CEO is still in place except now has the "manager" and head scout reporting directly to her and the connection and any goodwill between the club and the fans has been damaged beyond all repair.
I hope you're right but I think, if this is NOT a complete change of direction and I don't see that it is, then we are just as likely to be relegated as promoted. So, no, I dont think that not getting promoted is a worse case scenario, there's a whole world of other potential pain out there, pretty much all of it starting with this lot still running the club.
Granpa, as you can see from the first few replies, you're wasting your time mate!
They've asked for a British manager (not coach!) - they've got it, and he comes with a three year deal!
But as you've already seen, many on here are not willing to at least be cautiously optimistic in our new man!
Instead, they are already planning to demonstrate at the press announcement!, he will be gone by Christmas!, no chance of making his own signings!, puppet of the regime, and all the other ballshit that goes along with it!
It's a start, let's at least see what the next few moths bring!
Actually I'm quite pleased that a lot of them aren't going to come to the games next season. At least we can watch a match properly without all the vitriol and do what Charlton supporters do best, get behind the team that we all love!
See you at the Valley!
Got to be the most ignorant post so far this summer (apart from a few of mine). By supporting the team you are supporting a regime that has not one iota of benefit to the Charlton Athletic Football Club you say you support. The club is in terminal decline unless there are new owners and the only way that will happen is by stepping up the protests inside the Valley. You can voice your opposition to us there and then if you want.
Yep, that's me an ignoramous!
Thought you lot weren't coming to any more home games next season, so how are you going to protest from inside the Valley?
You've shouted, you've asked for change, now you've got it, but still not enough!
Me personally, I'm happy to give Slade a chance to change our fortunes around, maybe, just maybe, RD has seen the error of his ways, time will tell!
If that makes me ignorant then so be it!
Of course, because these months of protests have just been about the nationality of the manager. Everything's fixed now! This managerial appointment is a good thing. It might work it might not, but there's a logic behind the appointment. Now show me where the other change has happened. Where the dialogue with the fans is, where the specific acknowledgement of complaints and the apologies for actions taken are. You can't because this is one very, very late tacit admission of a mistake we've been pointing out for 18 months and none of the other issues have been dealt with.
I don't know why you exist solely to praise the ownership and insult fans who have problems with the regime but it's a weird way to spend your time
lets be joyous. Miere is in charge managing a few junior staff and unprincipled Slade, with no managerial success, is the latest in the dugout. I can see why the anti protestors are dribbling.
Some people spend their whole life being happy with mediocrity. All the time these people are in charge that is sadly the best we will achieve, in my opinion.
I like to aim much higher, doesn't mean you will get there but at least you can say you gave it the very best shot and occasionally hard work, proper planning and organisation does work.
Sadly I see this appointment as a sop to the fans in the hope of increasing income in the short term.
I will still support the team and the manager but will not support the regime until they are gone.
The appointment of Russell Slade is a mega climb-down. BRITiSH, MANAGER, 3YEAR CONTRACT, This represents a recognition of the need to make changes in thinking by the owner, and great work by CARD and others. Now if we want the Club to move forward we all need to take a positive attitude towards the situation. Of course I am aware that more things need to change, but let's show Roland what being proper Charlton really means. He has learned a valuable lesson, now let's open his eyes to more. Forget about Katien, she is ridculously misplaced in her role. Let's get behind Russell and the lads, and would the ' glass half full ' brigade kindly bugger off somewhere else.
terrific post .. there just MUST be a 'ceasefire' for the first (say) six games of Slade's regime .. then if things are still seriously tits up, CARD & Co can start blasting away once more .. IF NOT, any new players (if any/many) and Slade, as experienced as he is, will be demoralised before the season is even properly under way
It's not about results, managers, players or anything else, it's about getting the cancerous owner and his lackeys out of the club. From my point of view, there should NEVER be a ceasefire. The only time things should stop is when Roland and his clueless sycophant's are gone, for good.
@Essex_Al, your right to be happy about the new appointment is undeniable. However, as was pointed out a few posts back, the protests were about a lot more than the manager being a foreigner. Maybe you have forgotten where Karel Fraeye managed before we chose him as the best available replacement for Luzon? Katriens ongoing demonstrations of incompetence when a microphone is offered to her? Roland lashing out at the fans for wanting the club to fail when the decisions that bought us to relegation were all his? The return of Relegation Roger six months after he was deemed not good enough? Slade may or not succeed in taking us back up. But I'm afraid I am in the group who, after two and a half years of wretched mismanagement, want to see a lot more than a Bristish manager and a couple of usefull signings to believe this lot have seriously undergone a change of heart. Remember the excitement last summer over the signings, plus the contract extensions of JBG and Cousins? The club is a basket case, and appointing Slade in itself is not much more than an unimaginative attempt to convince the easily swayed that everything is hunky dory. The ongoing presence of the useless katrien shouts out loud that little has changed yet. Ask me again in december - I've never refused a share of humble pie when it is deserved.
Slade is a good hire, decent manager but it will take a lot more then that before I am willing to get back on side.
Our transfer business this summer will tell us a lot about if they truly are willing to change but after two and half years of the Belgian circus and the fact KM is still working here leaves me highly doubtful anything serious has changed in their mindset.
A lot of people are easily pleased, more fool you, and if you expect promotion from a man who has never before achieved such in a long career involving a lot of Clubs then good luck with that.
For me there is no change to the support the team but not the regime mantra. Will continue to hope team and Slade do well but there can never be any rapprochement with Meire or Duchatelet - too much damage has been done by them to be papered over by a British managerial appointment.
Interesting that Slade was attracted by the fans and the history of the club, the two things that Meire appears to detest!
@Essex_Al, your right to be happy about the new appointment is undeniable. However, as was pointed out a few posts back, the protests were about a lot more than the manager being a foreigner. Maybe you have forgotten where Karel Fraeye managed before we chose him as the best available replacement for Luzon? Katriens ongoing demonstrations of incompetence when a microphone is offered to her? Roland lashing out at the fans for wanting the club to fail when the decisions that bought us to relegation were all his? The return of Relegation Roger six months after he was deemed not good enough? Slade may or not succeed in taking us back up. But I'm afraid I am in the group who, after two and a half years of wretched mismanagement, want to see a lot more than a Bristish manager and a couple of usefull signings to believe this lot have seriously undergone a change of heart. Remember the excitement last summer over the signings, plus the contract extensions of JBG and Cousins? The club is a basket case, and appointing Slade in itself is not much more than an unimaginative attempt to convince the easily swayed that everything is hunky dory. The ongoing presence of the useless katrien shouts out loud that little has changed yet. Ask me again in december - I've never refused a share of humble pie when it is deserved.
@Essex_Al, your right to be happy about the new appointment is undeniable. However, as was pointed out a few posts back, the protests were about a lot more than the manager being a foreigner. Maybe you have forgotten where Karel Fraeye managed before we chose him as the best available replacement for Luzon? Katriens ongoing demonstrations of incompetence when a microphone is offered to her? Roland lashing out at the fans for wanting the club to fail when the decisions that bought us to relegation were all his? The return of Relegation Roger six months after he was deemed not good enough? Slade may or not succeed in taking us back up. But I'm afraid I am in the group who, after two and a half years of wretched mismanagement, want to see a lot more than a Bristish manager and a couple of usefull signings to believe this lot have seriously undergone a change of heart. Remember the excitement last summer over the signings, plus the contract extensions of JBG and Cousins? The club is a basket case, and appointing Slade in itself is not much more than an unimaginative attempt to convince the easily swayed that everything is hunky dory. The ongoing presence of the useless katrien shouts out loud that little has changed yet. Ask me again in december - I've never refused a share of humble pie when it is deserved.
Ken, to be honest, Slade doesn't excite me that much having never had a team promoted as yet, but it is a step in the right direction for me and I can live in hope that there has been an honest change of direction.
As usual for having a differing opinion to many on here, I get asked if I am for real!
I'm not stupid enough to dismiss the appalling miss management of the club for the past two years, but originally, the request was for more dialogue with the club but that hasn't happened! One of the other moans is that we have been craving for a British manager (not coach). This has happened and still for many this goes absolutely nowhere to alleviate fans. Of course this is a very small step, but who knows where it may lead.
I've absolutely hated the foreign managers (apart from Riga) and to be back in L1 is hell for me, but sorry that is not going to stop me going!
Protest all you like, but for god sake give the man a chance to try and change our fortunes around.
The appointment of Russell Slade is a mega climb-down. BRITiSH, MANAGER, 3YEAR CONTRACT, This represents a recognition of the need to make changes in thinking by the owner, and great work by CARD and others. Now if we want the Club to move forward we all need to take a positive attitude towards the situation. Of course I am aware that more things need to change, but let's show Roland what being proper Charlton really means. He has learned a valuable lesson, now let's open his eyes to more. Forget about Katien, she is ridculously misplaced in her role. Let's get behind Russell and the lads, and would the ' glass half full ' brigade kindly bugger off somewhere else.
No. Bollocks to the lot of them. They have taken our hard earned money for the past couple of seasons whilst taking the piss out of our better nature. Roly took over our club and took it apart. Unforgivable what has happened to our club and now we are kicking around the third division once again. Slade wasn't even this mobs first choice, how good can someone be playing second fiddle to the Northampton manager. God only knows what plans they have, I doubt they have any apart from more of the same and employing another interim sometime soon.
As usual for having a differing opinion to many on here, I get asked if I am for real!
Of course you're entitled to your opinion, but the opening post on this thread is also telling people to "get real" for expressing opposite views to those seemingly shared by you.
I for one just can't understand the mentality of those who either see no problem, aren't prepared to do anything about it (even forgoing their half time Bovril), or else are seemingly appeased by a weasel-worded "statement", a tin pot signing or another poor managerial appointment.
"Give them a chance?" Fuck that mate.
I will defend your right to have an opinion, but I will also defend my right to tell someone I think their opinion is totally fucking bonkers!
(And that's not entirely aimed at you Al, by the way)
Safe to say that Roly had never heard of Wilder or Slade before this pre season and Meire definitely wouldn't have a clue. So are these Murray options? A random agent? Are they consulting Jackson?
The appointment of Russell Slade is a mega climb-down. BRITiSH, MANAGER, 3YEAR CONTRACT, This represents a recognition of the need to make changes in thinking by the owner, and great work by CARD and others. Now if we want the Club to move forward we all need to take a positive attitude towards the situation. Of course I am aware that more things need to change, but let's show Roland what being proper Charlton really means. He has learned a valuable lesson, now let's open his eyes to more. Forget about Katien, she is ridculously misplaced in her role. Let's get behind Russell and the lads, and would the ' glass half full ' brigade kindly bugger off somewhere else.
if the glass half full brigade need to kindly bigger off, what do the 'glass with a splash of luke warm tramp's urine in it' brigade like myself need to kindly do?
@Essex_Al, your right to be happy about the new appointment is undeniable. However, as was pointed out a few posts back, the protests were about a lot more than the manager being a foreigner. Maybe you have forgotten where Karel Fraeye managed before we chose him as the best available replacement for Luzon? Katriens ongoing demonstrations of incompetence when a microphone is offered to her? Roland lashing out at the fans for wanting the club to fail when the decisions that bought us to relegation were all his? The return of Relegation Roger six months after he was deemed not good enough? Slade may or not succeed in taking us back up. But I'm afraid I am in the group who, after two and a half years of wretched mismanagement, want to see a lot more than a Bristish manager and a couple of usefull signings to believe this lot have seriously undergone a change of heart. Remember the excitement last summer over the signings, plus the contract extensions of JBG and Cousins? The club is a basket case, and appointing Slade in itself is not much more than an unimaginative attempt to convince the easily swayed that everything is hunky dory. The ongoing presence of the useless katrien shouts out loud that little has changed yet. Ask me again in december - I've never refused a share of humble pie when it is deserved.
@Essex_Al, your right to be happy about the new appointment is undeniable. However, as was pointed out a few posts back, the protests were about a lot more than the manager being a foreigner. Maybe you have forgotten where Karel Fraeye managed before we chose him as the best available replacement for Luzon? Katriens ongoing demonstrations of incompetence when a microphone is offered to her? Roland lashing out at the fans for wanting the club to fail when the decisions that bought us to relegation were all his? The return of Relegation Roger six months after he was deemed not good enough? Slade may or not succeed in taking us back up. But I'm afraid I am in the group who, after two and a half years of wretched mismanagement, want to see a lot more than a Bristish manager and a couple of usefull signings to believe this lot have seriously undergone a change of heart. Remember the excitement last summer over the signings, plus the contract extensions of JBG and Cousins? The club is a basket case, and appointing Slade in itself is not much more than an unimaginative attempt to convince the easily swayed that everything is hunky dory. The ongoing presence of the useless katrien shouts out loud that little has changed yet. Ask me again in december - I've never refused a share of humble pie when it is deserved.
Ken, to be honest, Slade doesn't excite me that much having never had a team promoted as yet, but it is a step in the right direction for me and I can live in hope that there has been an honest change of direction.
As usual for having a differing opinion to many on here, I get asked if I am for real!
I'm not stupid enough to dismiss the appalling miss management of the club for the past two years, but originally, the request was for more dialogue with the club but that hasn't happened! One of the other moans is that we have been craving for a British manager (not coach). This has happened and still for many this goes absolutely nowhere to alleviate fans. Of course this is a very small step, but who knows where it may lead.
I've absolutely hated the foreign managers (apart from Riga) and to be back in L1 is hell for me, but sorry that is not going to stop me going!
Protest all you like, but for god sake give the man a chance to try and change our fortunes around.
Speak again in December Ken
The club refused dialogue and eventually asked for it once the fans were protesting every match and they realised they had lost control. Now nobody wants to speak to them because they cannot be trusted.
In terms of the Slade appointment. Yes, many wanted an experienced, English manager, but we've needed one for over two years. Unfortunately during their whole tenure thus far, the club have completely ignored these requests thinking they can do it their own way. This has led to failure on a massive scale. Now we have a manager with some experience albeit after they cocked up the hiring of their primary target and didn't seem to have a plan B. But, it's common knowledge that the senior management are meddlers and don't let the manager manage. It remains to be seen if they can step back and allow Slade to do his job without interference from people who do not have the first clue on how to run a football club.
Yes, hiring Slade is a step forward, but there are so many other things wrong at the club, including the owner persisting with a CEO that is not fit for purpose. Had the Slade appointment been coupled with a replacement for Meire, you may have seen a few more positive posts, but the on the pitch issues are only a small part of our current woes. Unless there is a complete u-turn on their strategy and a proper top-down reorganisation, not just for this season, but also going forward, we will always be flirting with promotion and relegation, to and from, the Championship (or worse). Is that what you really want? I want to see owners with ambition, not people who think that it's acceptable to sell our assets to the premier league whilst languishing around the lower divisions.
The reason they appointed Slade is because they are going to lose money hand over fist this season and they are scared out of their wits that all the money they've invested in the club will be going down the drain. A quick return to the Championship is the only way to stem the flow, though I'm not sure they've picked the right manager to get us back so quickly. Time will tell obviously, but I'm not going to change my view on the owner and his stooges until it's obvious that they have changed their ways for the longer term.
Struggle to see a shred of evidence that Duchatalet or Daisy have "learned a valuable lesson". I presume Slade was somewhere down their shopping list but clearly not a first choice. So they have appointed an English manager. Good start. But that aside, what changes?
Daisy is not suddenly apologetic and interested in things other than herself; Roland is not suddenly an ever-present at The Valley; the back-room staff are not suddenly clamouring to stay; the fans are not suddenly treated with any respect.
And as for us "buggering off" ... well, I'm not going anywhere but do question the commitment of someone who is so easily won over by this appointment. For me, the protests continue until Roland and his lapdog are gone.
I support the appointment of Slade and I'll support the team that he puts on the field but I won't visit the Valley but will attend away games that I can afford to attend. I will not attend the Valley as I do not wish to financially support the current owner in any way and will not return to the Valley until CARD's demands are met in full.
When Slade announces the first signings of his team to get us out of Leauge one are Zzoujac Hungarian and joccick Foreignjonny from some Serbian 4th division team, I think we will know who,s running the show !
when this mob sacked Chris Powell they had the chance there to employ a decent manager, Charlton was still a decent opportunity for any manager out of work or in a similar size club. But they went down another route and now they are stuck with third rate candidates who can wrangle 3 year deals.
The appointment of Russell Slade is a mega climb-down. BRITiSH, MANAGER, 3YEAR CONTRACT, This represents a recognition of the need to make changes in thinking by the owner, and great work by CARD and others. Now if we want the Club to move forward we all need to take a positive attitude towards the situation. Of course I am aware that more things need to change, but let's show Roland what being proper Charlton really means. He has learned a valuable lesson, now let's open his eyes to more. Forget about Katien, she is ridculously misplaced in her role. Let's get behind Russell and the lads, and would the ' glass half full ' brigade kindly bugger off somewhere else.
terrific post .. there just MUST be a 'ceasefire' for the first (say) six games of Slade's regime .. then if things are still seriously tits up, CARD & Co can start blasting away once more .. IF NOT, any new players (if any/many) and Slade, as experienced as he is, will be demoralised before the season is even properly under way
A ceasefire might have been appropriate had the demonstrations solely been about poor performances. They never were. Whilst uninspiring football, consistent and heavy defeats and relegation obviously fuelled fans' anger, that wasn't the root of the problem. The nub of it was, is and always will be the nature of the board. They are not in it for footballing reasons. They have been underhand and duplicitous. Nothing in this appointment gives us any reason to believe that that has changed. Roly will still be disinterested. Meire will still be incompetent. Both will continue to treat the fans with contempt. There is no reason for any hope that the appointment of Slade, means they have changed.
You jump to a lot of conclusions about the current regime. How do you know that 'they have not changed' for the better ? .. Answer .. you're presuming/guessing/too set in your ways to consider any other possibility other than what 'you believe'
No, I'm sorry but "jumping to conclusions" doesn't come into it. And we know they have not changed for the better because of the evidence - you know the actual facts - before our eyes and ears.
They promised better communication - has there been any - no. Was there a genuine and heartfelt apology for last season's fiasco? Murray - when did he last raise his head above the parapet? They haven't filled large numbers of job vacancies, including club doctor, despite these jobs having been unfilled for months. More staff have left and or been "let go", including Mandy Hypen- Whatsername who was a member of the so-called Senior Management Team. They have made no concessions on the ridiculous (in the circumstances) decision to release all seats for general sale rather than leave them available for erstwhile season ticket holders who might change their mind. The CEO hasn't seen anything wrong about losing it big time and going into a rant about the club's "shitty" racist supporters. The training ground work has ground (no pun intended) to a halt with no word of explanation. (Or alternatively no press release on progress!) Almost everything concerning the administration of the club is hopeless. From advertising the incorrect start time on U18 matches to lobbing superfluous apostrophes into promotional material. I could go on but sorry, the appointment of one individual with no idea as to what team he might have to manage or whether he'll be allowed to are not grounds for optimism to any extent whatsoever.
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I hope you're right but I think, if this is NOT a complete change of direction and I don't see that it is, then we are just as likely to be relegated as promoted. So, no, I dont think that not getting promoted is a worse case scenario, there's a whole world of other potential pain out there, pretty much all of it starting with this lot still running the club.
I don't know why you exist solely to praise the ownership and insult fans who have problems with the regime but it's a weird way to spend your time
I like to aim much higher, doesn't mean you will get there but at least you can say you gave it the very best shot and occasionally hard work, proper planning and organisation does work.
Sadly I see this appointment as a sop to the fans in the hope of increasing income in the short term.
I will still support the team and the manager but will not support the regime until they are gone.
Slade may or not succeed in taking us back up. But I'm afraid I am in the group who, after two and a half years of wretched mismanagement, want to see a lot more than a Bristish manager and a couple of usefull signings to believe this lot have seriously undergone a change of heart. Remember the excitement last summer over the signings, plus the contract extensions of JBG and Cousins? The club is a basket case, and appointing Slade in itself is not much more than an unimaginative attempt to convince the easily swayed that everything is hunky dory. The ongoing presence of the useless katrien shouts out loud that little has changed yet. Ask me again in december - I've never refused a share of humble pie when it is deserved.
Our transfer business this summer will tell us a lot about if they truly are willing to change but after two and half years of the Belgian circus and the fact KM is still working here leaves me highly doubtful anything serious has changed in their mindset.
Will continue to hope team and Slade do well but there can never be any rapprochement with Meire or Duchatelet - too much damage has been done by them to be papered over by a British managerial appointment.
Interesting that Slade was attracted by the fans and the history of the club, the two things that Meire appears to detest!
As usual for having a differing opinion to many on here, I get asked if I am for real!
I'm not stupid enough to dismiss the appalling miss management of the club for the past two years, but originally, the request was for more dialogue with the club but that hasn't happened! One of the other moans is that we have been craving for a British manager (not coach). This has happened and still for many this goes absolutely nowhere to alleviate fans. Of course this is a very small step, but who knows where it may lead.
I've absolutely hated the foreign managers (apart from Riga) and to be back in L1 is hell for me, but sorry that is not going to stop me going!
Protest all you like, but for god sake give the man a chance to try and change our fortunes around.
Speak again in December Ken
Roly took over our club and took it apart.
Unforgivable what has happened to our club and now we are kicking around the third division once again.
Slade wasn't even this mobs first choice, how good can someone be playing second fiddle to the Northampton manager. God only knows what plans they have, I doubt they have any apart from more of the same and employing another interim sometime soon.
I for one just can't understand the mentality of those who either see no problem, aren't prepared to do anything about it (even forgoing their half time Bovril), or else are seemingly appeased by a weasel-worded "statement", a tin pot signing or another poor managerial appointment.
"Give them a chance?" Fuck that mate.
I will defend your right to have an opinion, but I will also defend my right to tell someone I think their opinion is totally fucking bonkers!
(And that's not entirely aimed at you Al, by the way)
Safe to say that Roly had never heard of Wilder or Slade before this pre season and Meire definitely wouldn't have a clue. So are these Murray options? A random agent? Are they consulting Jackson?
if the glass half full brigade need to kindly bigger off, what do the 'glass with a splash of luke warm tramp's urine in it' brigade like myself need to kindly do?
In terms of the Slade appointment. Yes, many wanted an experienced, English manager, but we've needed one for over two years. Unfortunately during their whole tenure thus far, the club have completely ignored these requests thinking they can do it their own way. This has led to failure on a massive scale. Now we have a manager with some experience albeit after they cocked up the hiring of their primary target and didn't seem to have a plan B. But, it's common knowledge that the senior management are meddlers and don't let the manager manage. It remains to be seen if they can step back and allow Slade to do his job without interference from people who do not have the first clue on how to run a football club.
Yes, hiring Slade is a step forward, but there are so many other things wrong at the club, including the owner persisting with a CEO that is not fit for purpose. Had the Slade appointment been coupled with a replacement for Meire, you may have seen a few more positive posts, but the on the pitch issues are only a small part of our current woes. Unless there is a complete u-turn on their strategy and a proper top-down reorganisation, not just for this season, but also going forward, we will always be flirting with promotion and relegation, to and from, the Championship (or worse). Is that what you really want? I want to see owners with ambition, not people who think that it's acceptable to sell our assets to the premier league whilst languishing around the lower divisions.
The reason they appointed Slade is because they are going to lose money hand over fist this season and they are scared out of their wits that all the money they've invested in the club will be going down the drain. A quick return to the Championship is the only way to stem the flow, though I'm not sure they've picked the right manager to get us back so quickly. Time will tell obviously, but I'm not going to change my view on the owner and his stooges until it's obvious that they have changed their ways for the longer term.
Daisy is not suddenly apologetic and interested in things other than herself; Roland is not suddenly an ever-present at The Valley; the back-room staff are not suddenly clamouring to stay; the fans are not suddenly treated with any respect.
And as for us "buggering off" ... well, I'm not going anywhere but do question the commitment of someone who is so easily won over by this appointment. For me, the protests continue until Roland and his lapdog are gone.
I will not attend the Valley as I do not wish to financially support the current owner in any way and will not return to the Valley until CARD's demands are met in full.
They promised better communication - has there been any - no.
Was there a genuine and heartfelt apology for last season's fiasco?
Murray - when did he last raise his head above the parapet?
They haven't filled large numbers of job vacancies, including club doctor, despite these jobs having been unfilled for months.
More staff have left and or been "let go", including Mandy Hypen- Whatsername who was a member of the so-called Senior Management Team.
They have made no concessions on the ridiculous (in the circumstances) decision to release all seats for general sale rather than leave them available for erstwhile season ticket holders who might change their mind.
The CEO hasn't seen anything wrong about losing it big time and going into a rant about the club's "shitty" racist supporters.
The training ground work has ground (no pun intended) to a halt with no word of explanation. (Or alternatively no press release on progress!)
Almost everything concerning the administration of the club is hopeless. From advertising the incorrect start time on U18 matches to lobbing superfluous apostrophes into promotional material.
I could go on but sorry, the appointment of one individual with no idea as to what team he might have to manage or whether he'll be allowed to are not grounds for optimism to any extent whatsoever.