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Pre Match with KM

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  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,745

    Off_it said:

    Jeez, there's a lot of age in those pictures. And if you take out the three club employees that average age goes up even higher.

    Where's the youth coming through? We know they care, or at least some of them do, so why is it they don't feel able (or welcome?) to attend these things?

    Go to an away game and you see the same.

    I can only put it down to the generation of fans lost when we were groundsharing.
    Really? Millwall, for example? There are loads of younger fans at the bigger turnout away matches.
  • Scoham- thanks for post.
    KM is either totally stupid or has a huge ego with the inability to see reality. The questions asked shows she is 100% a failure. Her decisions on players, managers are disasters, the biggest failure is her personal alienation of fans. As is said this cannot be solved by her and RD.
    It is a catch 22 situation. As she cannot recognise and admit her failures she clearly does not have the ability to be CEO of the football club.
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,824

    Off_it said:

    Jeez, there's a lot of age in those pictures. And if you take out the three club employees that average age goes up even higher.

    Where's the youth coming through? We know they care, or at least some of them do, so why is it they don't feel able (or welcome?) to attend these things?

    Go to an away game and you see the same.

    I can only put it down to the generation of fans lost when we were groundsharing.
    Really? Millwall, for example? There are loads of younger fans at the bigger turnout away matches.
    agreed, that whole point about the lost generation is no longer relevant. Young supporters we might have missed out on then would be in their 40s now anyway so certainly not youth. We've since had a decade period of a sold out valley with well over 20,000 in the ground week in week out.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127

    Off_it said:

    Jeez, there's a lot of age in those pictures. And if you take out the three club employees that average age goes up even higher.

    Where's the youth coming through? We know they care, or at least some of them do, so why is it they don't feel able (or welcome?) to attend these things?

    Go to an away game and you see the same.

    I can only put it down to the generation of fans lost when we were groundsharing.
    Or more recently, falling through the leagues.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,170
    Is Katrien really involved with "choosing" players or managers ?
    Who gives her the list to choose from ?
    Being rude , I'm sure 95% of those in the ground over the age of 12 would have better footballing knowledge and acumen than her .
  • Bit unfair on the under12s! I think they have more knowledge and ability than KM.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    edited April 2017
    The frightening thing for me is that free tickets wouldn't get me to games at the moment. I had a discussion with my brother recently as to how much the club would have to pay us to attend a particular game. And the figure was pretty high. We have seen the £5 offers that would virtually fill the ground in the past have increasingly marginal imapact. The Valley has become a depressing place to watch football. To be honest, It was getting that way before this owner until Powell came along, but I still felt loyalty to the club and part of it. Katrien Meire has pretty much killed that with her egocentric historic comments and behaviours which I can't forgive or forget.

    I have done a deal with myself that I will never lose my love for the club and will be back after she has gone. Even if it still doesn't feel quite the same, I will push through that.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Of those who go to game with me, one very regular is 23, one occasional one is 23, and one half dozen a season is 23, one infrequent one is 66 and another one is 15.
    What the club is doing by being so abject is alienating those younger ones.

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    seth plum said:

    Of those who go to game with me, one very regular is 23, one occasional one is 23, and one half dozen a season is 23, one infrequent one is 66 and another one is 15.
    What the club is doing by being so abject is alienating those younger ones.

    Yes, my son actually was changing from somebody I had to drag along to somebody who wanted to come. That has gone!
  • Fiiiiiish
    Fiiiiiish Posts: 1,671
    So if Roland has an issue with a senior manager in his businesses he takes action, believe her that he does....

    Believe her.......really?

    She is unbelievable in anything that comes out her mouth.
  • Mark_West49
    Mark_West49 Posts: 410
    My thoughts turned to Meire when I read about the confidentiality payoff made to former Sunderland CEO (also, interestingly, a qualified lawyer) Margaret Byrne: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/05/sunderland-margaret-byrne-750000-confidentiality-deal

    I'd hate to think that, when the axe finally falls, Meire could walk away with a similar fat pay cheque, or indeed any other form of remuneration (bonuses, share options etc).
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051

    My thoughts turned to Meire when I read about the confidentiality payoff made to former Sunderland CEO (also, interestingly, a qualified lawyer) Margaret Byrne: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/05/sunderland-margaret-byrne-750000-confidentiality-deal

    I'd hate to think that, when the axe finally falls, Meire could walk away with a similar fat pay cheque, or indeed any other form of remuneration (bonuses, share options etc).

    Byrne had a pretty good reputation in the game. Fell on her sword after a disastrous error of judgment. Rightly so, but one wonders why KM hasn't yet fallen on hers. Probably because she doesnt understand what accountability means.