Can someone make sure the Charlton Museum has a pig, a squidgy ball, a beach ball, and some stuffing from the sofa. It might not be able to be displayed now, but in years to come those items will stir fond memories in many.
Along with a transcript of Katrien telling porkies!
'Porkies', see what you did there, clever.
Did each flying pigs on the pitch also represent a Porkie that has come from the lips of Katrien Meire
John Winthrop was an English Puritan who settled in Massachusetts in 1630 and recounted his story in The History of New England in America, which was transcribed from Winthrop's 17th century notes
In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton, and so up and down about two or three hours.
Can someone make sure the Charlton Museum has a pig, a squidgy ball, a beach ball, and some stuffing from the sofa. It might not be able to be displayed now, but in years to come those items will stir fond memories in many.
At the end of the game after the beach ball demo I found one at the end of Ransom Walk which I took home.
Yesterday several pigs were collected by Cov players in the dug-out and lined up on the edge by Ricketts the guy who came on as sub for them -one of them got knocked towards the barrier during the comings and goings and I was able to retrieve it - the others went into the physios kit back I think.
Happy to donate when the time comes - which can't be soon enough.
Wasn't there but I can't see a few plastic pigs changing anything... we won 3-0, we're comfortably just behind the play-off places with a top 6 budget, and Katy ticked all the boxes by meeting the fans before the match; and no doubt she and Sue brown nosed with the Sisu contingent from Coventry as well to liaise as to how to destroy a football club.
Disagree.
Was a well orchestrated campaign picked up massively by the TV and Radio media and gets the whole business about irresponsible and cavalier ownership of FL clubs more into the public domain and its not just about Duchatelet its about all the other clubs in the FL suffering from this kind of idiosyncratic ownership like Coventry, Blackpool, Leeds, Blackburn..........
I think we have to give a little credit to the @cafcofficial twitter feed, as their first couple of tweets after kick-off provided a glorious hook to hang the story off until the pictures came in.
Can someone make sure the Charlton Museum has a pig, a squidgy ball, a beach ball, and some stuffing from the sofa. It might not be able to be displayed now, but in years to come those items will stir fond memories in many.
Along with a transcript of Katrien telling porkies!
'Porkies', see what you did there, clever.
Did each flying pigs on the pitch also represent a Porkie that has come from the lips of Katrien Meire
Wasn't there but I can't see a few plastic pigs changing anything... we won 3-0, we're comfortably just behind the play-off places with a top 6 budget, and Katy ticked all the boxes by meeting the fans before the match; and no doubt she and Sue brown nosed with the Sisu contingent from Coventry as well to liaise as to how to destroy a football club.
Disagree.
Was a well orchestrated campaign picked up massively by the TV and Radio media and gets the whole business about irresponsible and cavalier ownership of FL clubs more into the public domain and its not just about Duchatelet its about all the other clubs in the FL suffering from this kind of idiosyncratic ownership like Coventry, Blackpool, Leeds, Blackburn..........
The FL have rules re fit and proper owners but they seem incapable of recognising the damage that is being done to clubs with a great footballing history by these new 'year zero' owners who disregard the history and any long-term fan commitment and want to shape the clubs in their own misguided image (or vision as RD puts it). Remarkable that the FL are represented on FA Council by Meire who openly admitted that Charlton were purchased with the intention of becoming a player farm nursery.
Anything which raises awareness of the level of discontent with certain owners (as the joint flying pig protest did yesterday) is to be welcomed.
It may not change anything over night, no. But the media have really put the pigs into the public eye( did I just write that!) with the reasoning behind the match disruption. If you put pigs charlton v Coventry in Google it extends to over 10 pages of Google with every media outlet in this country, that I can think of, plus many more from abroad, involved. I am not a marketeer but that, would I am sure, need a multiple six figure sum to get that coverage.
Singing "we want Roland out" for 90 minutes in the Stadium would achieve very, very little (if anything) in the press.
With all the other praise for the way CAFC fans are handling the situation, the joint march, the Stewards own goal, the embarrassing situation to Roland, the quite obviously discomforting day for Katrien (why put yourself through this Katrien - are you that desperate for the money and limelight?) I really cannot see how much more CARD could have done!
Disappointingly the only small dissenters nationally seem to now be a minority within our fanbase and the well documented Sue Porks/Perks/Perkes.
Just an idea but...if we are to do this again can we have the self discipline to keep something in reserve for a second wave as soon as the game is restarted.
Just an idea but...if we are to do this again can we have the self discipline to keep something in reserve for a second wave as soon as the game is restarted.
I think Danny Kelly took at least 4 callers on the flying pigs during the TalkSport phone-in yesterday evening - Mary and Alex at the start of the show then Jake (I kid you not Bacon) then me. As the others had already made all the valid points from the day and I was last on I had to resort to explaining why we were continuing to protest about an absentee owner and a CEO who had no understanding of what it is to be a fan and who would prefer us all to be customers with no emotional attachment to the club. Managed to get in my particular bete noir as well - i.e. Meire's comment in Belgium that she doesn't care about the history of the Club.
PS. Has anyone else already mentioned the splendid article on the planned protests written by Jim White in the Friday sport section of the Daily Telegraph? I hope this is reported in the OS Media Watch along with all the Flying Pig reports and the breaking story of the rough treatment of a young fan by the privately hired security guards - the picture of the guy taken from above showing him surrounded by upwards of 16 is it (maybe 19?) police and blue jacketed security stewards is worth a thousand words.
The pigs reached Australia last night. There is a show on Foxsport called Shoot Out which mainly covers the A-League but has a segment with Darren Lewis from the Daily Mirror who contributes on the EPL and European football. A video was shown of the pigs and Darren mentioned about 3,000 were thrown onto the pitch and Charlton of course were mentioned as having problems with the owner.
Just an idea but...if we are to do this again can we have the self discipline to keep something in reserve for a second wave as soon as the game is restarted.
Exactly what I was thinking during the opening minutes. More effect if the match restarts for a second wave to rain down.
Can someone make sure the Charlton Museum has a pig, a squidgy ball, a beach ball, and some stuffing from the sofa. It might not be able to be displayed now, but in years to come those items will stir fond memories in many.
At the end of the game after the beach ball demo I found one at the end of Ransom Walk which I took home.
Yesterday several pigs were collected by Cov players in the dug-out and lined up on the edge by Ricketts the guy who came on as sub for them -one of them got knocked towards the barrier during the comings and goings and I was able to retrieve it - the others went into the physios kit back I think.
Happy to donate when the time comes - which can't be soon enough.
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On the origin of the expression 'pigs might fly'.
John Winthrop was an English Puritan who settled in Massachusetts in 1630 and recounted his story in The History of New England in America, which was transcribed from Winthrop's 17th century notes
In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton, and so up and down about two or three hours.
Yesterday several pigs were collected by Cov players in the dug-out and lined up on the edge by Ricketts the guy who came on as sub for them -one of them got knocked towards the barrier during the comings and goings and I was able to retrieve it - the others went into the physios kit back I think.
Happy to donate when the time comes - which can't be soon enough.
Charlton game delayed by 3,000 testicles !
Singing "we want Roland out" for 90 minutes in the Stadium would achieve very, very little (if anything) in the press.
With all the other praise for the way CAFC fans are handling the situation, the joint march, the Stewards own goal, the embarrassing situation to Roland, the quite obviously discomforting day for Katrien (why put yourself through this Katrien - are you that desperate for the money and limelight?) I really cannot see how much more CARD could have done!
Disappointingly the only small dissenters nationally seem to now be a minority within our fanbase and the well documented Sue Porks/Perks/Perkes.
#Rolandout
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Oh, ok then.
PS. Has anyone else already mentioned the splendid article on the planned protests written by Jim White in the Friday sport section of the Daily Telegraph? I hope this is reported in the OS Media Watch along with all the Flying Pig reports and the breaking story of the rough treatment of a young fan by the privately hired security guards - the picture of the guy taken from above showing him surrounded by upwards of 16 is it (maybe 19?) police and blue jacketed security stewards is worth a thousand words.
Only took one take, that's called being a professional.