The only things in the air were about Roland continuing to make losses as time goes on, which is of course fact. The other facts spoken about were that in four days David Joynes leaves. So we don't have a CEO, and the nearest we have to a figure head is a kind of Frankensteinian triumvirate of bits of Chris Parkes, Tony Keohane and Richard Murray.
From my perspective I see other clubs announcing ticket prices for next season and I imagine for most there is some sense of a plan for each club going forward. Not only do we have no plan, we have no planners, even the abjectly useless ones that we have become used to.
Am I the only person who thinks that the end of February is some kind of cliff edge or brink?
If Duchatelet is staying on, ought there to be some kind of non football management people to run things right now, and am I the only one that thinks it's kind of urgent?
To the normal person, RD is losing money, but I'm convinced that he's intending to just stick it on the bill to be paid off when / if a sale goes through
The Belgian has reduced me to getting greater enjoyment from the Scum losing a game than to us winning one and that's a sad and sorry individual state of affairs. Have been a regular attendee since 1971 but boycotted for two years. Have seen Nelsons column of crap, Killer and Flashes unification bout, Simmo come and go, Lennies pilgrimage over to Sainsburys. Was at Shirtliffs big night out and Mendoncas big afternoon out. Saw Morts steal the show at Maine Road-Carrow Road-Highbury and have partied at Carlisle. What have you done to me Mr Belgian. Now we all now that these things go round in footballing cycles but I think on this occasion the pedals are going to take a long time to turn. To take immense satisfaction over a Scum defeat regardless of what we do can't be right. See what you have done Mr Belgian. Now do the Honourable thing and cut your losses Mr Microchip man and take the money from Mustapha Deep pockets so I can once again walk into my local and hold my head up high in front of the knuckledragging Stone Islanders.
I doubt anybody has told Roly it was football for a fiver today and he is probably ecstatic over the upturn in attendance, we all know he doesn't give a monkey's about results.
So the the arab/Chinese /malasian/Thai guys pictured in the directors box last week (by Rick) I think? We're actually in the North Upper today, very friendly and asking lots of questions about us. I asked if he was buying the club and got an embarrassed laugh and was told he and and his companions were from Thailand and wanted to watch some football. This is where it gets strange though... He paid for 8 beers for myself and mine and his friends just before half time and never returned! Maybe a dash to an executive box to get away from me? Haha! Was definitely the same guy as no one else wheres a scarf like that! So apart from the interested party I know had a funny feeling about these guys... Plus the Australians and man City haha... Definitely moving forward.
And as I said before nothing will happen before the seasons end... Roland wants to sell a championship club the buyer(s) want to buy a league one club.
Well let’s hope Roland watched today because that is a bang average league one club he owns.
More worried now about the future of the club, then at any time in the past year. No sign this will be done soon, no planning for next season, and no sense that the next ownership will have the means to progress the club.
I am increasingly concerned about the possibility that Roland's mental health may be in question.
He exhibits all the symptoms of an autistic sociopath with psychotic delusions on his good days but maybe he's just stark raving bonkers and we are all doomed until someone sections him.
It probably isn't the asking price that is keeping the buyers from signing on the dotted line. I expect that Roland wants Robinson to remain as Manager for the next 10 years on a 'non-sackable' contract and the shop is only allowed to sell size 12, white Reebok trainers (left foot only.)
Chow doesn’t sound Thai . But good to be able to add another country to the list
Australia Scotland China Greece United States Belgium England Netherlands Switzerland And now Thailand
I think I might have missed one or two
Maybe I miss heard him then? But he said he was from Thailand.
Thais are all known by short nicknames as nobody can be arsed calling them by their five or six syllable real names. That makes Chow possible but a misheard Chai more likely.
It would be unusual for a group of Thais to watch Charlton unless they were taking advantage of football for a fiver, as they generally only know the big EPL clubs. But one thing is sure and that is hi-so Thais like to keep up with their peers: Leicester, Reading, Sheffield Wednesday, Man City and now Oxford have all had Thai owners so it could just be that another rich Thai wants to get in on the act and a London club might be seen as a coup.
But if there were anything in this particular rumour I'd have expected to hear something from one of the informed sources so on the reliable rumour scale of 1 to 10 I'll give it a 1.5 - and that's generous.
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The only things in the air were about Roland continuing to make losses as time goes on, which is of course fact. The other facts spoken about were that in four days David Joynes leaves. So we don't have a CEO, and the nearest we have to a figure head is a kind of Frankensteinian triumvirate of bits of Chris Parkes, Tony Keohane and Richard Murray.
From my perspective I see other clubs announcing ticket prices for next season and I imagine for most there is some sense of a plan for each club going forward. Not only do we have no plan, we have no planners, even the abjectly useless ones that we have become used to.
Am I the only person who thinks that the end of February is some kind of cliff edge or brink?
If Duchatelet is staying on, ought there to be some kind of non football management people to run things right now, and am I the only one that thinks it's kind of urgent?
Have seen Nelsons column of crap, Killer and Flashes unification bout, Simmo come and go, Lennies pilgrimage over to Sainsburys. Was at Shirtliffs big night out and Mendoncas big afternoon out. Saw Morts steal the show at Maine Road-Carrow Road-Highbury and have partied at Carlisle. What have you done to me Mr Belgian.
Now we all now that these things go round in footballing cycles but I think on this occasion the pedals are going to take a long time to turn. To take immense satisfaction over a Scum defeat regardless of what we do can't be right. See what you have done Mr Belgian.
Now do the Honourable thing and cut your losses Mr Microchip man and take the money from Mustapha Deep pockets so I can once again walk into my local and hold my head up high in front of the knuckledragging Stone Islanders.
See below. Whoosh
(Always wanted to do that)
Australia
Scotland
China
Greece
United States
Belgium
England
Netherlands
Switzerland
And now Thailand
I think I might have missed one or two
All a bit shit
He exhibits all the symptoms of an autistic sociopath with psychotic delusions on his good days but maybe he's just stark raving bonkers and we are all doomed until someone sections him.
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It would be unusual for a group of Thais to watch Charlton unless they were taking advantage of football for a fiver, as they generally only know the big EPL clubs. But one thing is sure and that is hi-so Thais like to keep up with their peers: Leicester, Reading, Sheffield Wednesday, Man City and now Oxford have all had Thai owners so it could just be that another rich Thai wants to get in on the act and a London club might be seen as a coup.
But if there were anything in this particular rumour I'd have expected to hear something from one of the informed sources so on the reliable rumour scale of 1 to 10 I'll give it a 1.5 - and that's generous.
I am now less worried than I was before.