Now I have been going to Charlton since 1975 - 41 years. Virtually every home game and a good number of away games each season. I have been a season ticket holder for years and a member of Valley Gold since its inception. I have a Charlton tatoo on my arm and that is my only tatoo - and my son has been a mascot twice and was christened at the Valley. My wife and son attend matches with me and we spend loads every season on Charlton stuff including replica kits - my son usually gets the goalkeeper kit and the home kit. If you visited my home you would see Charlton related photos and pictures in nearly every room, including three framed signed Charlton shirts. Visitors would think we were Charlton nuts. Now I am not entering some sort of fan competition, I know there are many that would beat me, but I think it is fair to say I am a Charlton nut and Charlton have played a big part in mine and my family's life.
You would think that the club would be aware of me on their databases or whatever. You would think that my failure to buy our season tickets this year, leaving Valley Gold etc... would at least prompt somebody to make a phone call to try to persuade me the club needs my support and has changed. I haven't heard anything at all. Now if the club hasn't tried to persuade me, I suspect there are many other Charlton nuts it is just ignoring. Any company that neglects it's most loyal customers in this situation could only be classed as incompetent - in the operational sense. I think this level of incompetence is more than incredible. Are there others that can echo this and show what sort of third class business people are running our great club? To disengage me from my club has been something I would have thought impossible before they took over. And as fellow Charlton fans you will know it isn't always a pleasurable journey. But I have never before even thought not to support the club more when it needed me - because it was my club. It feels to me that my club doesn't want me. Incompetence of the highest order.
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I've been going for a few years more than you Muttley.
I don't care whether RD/KM and TK want me or not, because it's only really those 3 we're talking about.
They've got me for life & I'll outsee those bastards.
Never surrender.
That's why a large percentage didn't get their S/T's and why many were sent to Bournemouth.
I believe due to us giving Bournemouth those West Stand tickets, which overrode the existing S/T holder details.
Stop sticking up for the club. You've changed.
I agree with your sentiment Muttley. But that's the level of their incompetence. Some have been called but most haven't.
For fucks sake, my son's middle name is Charlton and he was the youngest ever Junior Red when he was signed up aged five days old during the Selhurst days.
This season would be my 40th consecutive and my sons 23rd consecutive as ST holders. He's not 28 until October.
This regime has given up on us and won't even bother to persuade us to change our minds. I suspect it's because we both left our STs on Sam Batrams statue.
Neither of us have given up on our beloved Charlton. We're both going to Bury and will attend the odd home game this season. But we will not purchase a ST.
Not until these incompetent amateurs have left OUR club.
Comments I've been reading from you this past week have been Swisdom like. Interesting change.
I also said I could understand the club trying to move to online ticket sales, because that is the way of the world. No one likes change, but change we must.
However, that doesn't mean I in anyway support RD/KM and I will continue to demonstrate against them as I have done in the past, more so than most I would respectfully suggest.