I think it's fair to say we are not going up in 2019 but just hope we find the right investors as the long term future of the club is always a threat under Roland so 1 more season won't be the end of the world
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Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
I think it's fair to say we are not going up in 2019 but just hope we find the right investors as the long term future of the club is always a threat under Roland so 1 more season won't be the end of the world
It might seem that way to you at the moment if we had to the start the season right now, today.
But the one definite is that we will sign more players, maybe even players that make us a more balanced better team ? Wait until once we've played 10 games with a full team.
The statement was not meant for the fans. We're just collateral damage. It was drawn up by the lawyers simply to reassure the football industry at large that CAFC is open for business as "normal", and this takeover malarkey is just some little local difficulty, soon to be resolved. Meanwhile the whole weary process continues at glacier speed, to the profound detriment of the club, the rage and frustration of the fans, and the customary enrichment of the briefs. IMHO.
It was initially drawn up by a couple of the Aussie consortium, but I expect it was checked and/or modified by the Roland side, but then agreed by all parties (and their lawyers) before release.
Only a joint document would have been acceptable to all protagonists. Any fan-friendliness in the original draft has been thoroughly lawyered out in this frigid communication from the parallel universe wherein CAFC is presently marooned, slowly drifting ever more distant from us.
I think that’ll change. They’re pretty laid back for one thing. We’ll see how fan friendly they are when they select me a random fan for the board.
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Booooooooo
Remember the millennium bug? No, because there wasn’t one. I’m looking forward to page 2000 ;-(
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I genuinely don't know what's sadder, the fact that you've spent time looking for that or the fact that we've ostensibly made you do it.
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Who started the thread? If whoever it is kills off Charlton Life that's worthy of a demote.
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Who started the thread? If whoever it is kills off Charlton Life that's worthy of a demote.
Henry’s revenge for not getting a promote? Sweet huh.
I am surprised that DD is still being mentioned as one of the reasons for the delay. That really should have been completed some time ago.
Probably explains what the 'legal' people have been doing since around february time when it was announced that the price had been agreed with 2 separate consortiums and it was now with the solicitors or words to that affect.
You know very well that Murray said due diligence was already complete at that point. You can’t rely on his statements on the one hand and dismiss them on the other, just because it happens to suit you.
You know very well that there can be a difference between the dd process being completed and any issues resulting from it being satisfactorily resolved.
Correct which is why I said that earlier.
Beardy is trying to make it look like his unreliable source's "fact" that nothing was happening back end of last year was correct when even his ultimate source IE Murray has said DD has long been done.
DD is done. The argument now is what did it reveal that impacts on the price.
WIOTOS
Does Beardy mean the same as Jimmy Hill itchy chin?
DD is brown nose's name for me - he's still splitting hairs now when its clear that the proper 2 way process of dd has been ongoing since february
A couple thoughts: 1) I think we sometimes read too much into PR statements. The joint release is very bland, but that tends to be how those things are. It seems to confirm there is still a serious attempt for a deal to go through. Beyond that, I think we can pick it apart all day but it was almost certainly written by a PR person then reviewed by lawyers who may not have a ton of insight anyway.
2) The biggest question I keep coming back to is why has the deal stalled now? This is pure speculation, but I doubt much has changed on Roland's end, which leads me to think it's something to do with the Australians, and to me that means a problem with money and/or investors. I did a lengthier process of elimination post yesterday, but to me that's the only one that really makes sense.
3) This is the controversial one. IF the EFL has scuppered this deal because they are somehow concerned about the Australian bid, then I think we need to give them some credit. For as bad as things are under Roland, the club is not in administration. And if owners with not enough money take over, given our losses that becomes a very real concern.
The other piece of that is, how bad are things if the EFL is worried about your ownership? This is of course speculation, that might not be the hurdle.
Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
Booooooooo
Remember the millennium bug? No, because there wasn’t one. I’m looking forward to page 2000 ;-(
Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
If it does reach 1000 pages, do NLA and I get some sort of award?
A couple thoughts: 1) I think we sometimes read too much into PR statements. The joint release is very bland, but that tends to be how those things are. It seems to confirm there is still a serious attempt for a deal to go through. Beyond that, I think we can pick it apart all day but it was almost certainly written by a PR person then reviewed by lawyers who may not have a ton of insight anyway.
2) The biggest question I keep coming back to is why has the deal stalled now? This is pure speculation, but I doubt much has changed on Roland's end, which leads me to think it's something to do with the Australians, and to me that means a problem with money and/or investors. I did a lengthier process of elimination post yesterday, but to me that's the only one that really makes sense.
3) This is the controversial one. IF the EFL has scuppered this deal because they are somehow concerned about the Australian bid, then I think we need to give them some credit. For as bad as things are under Roland, the club is not in administration. And if owners with not enough money take over, given our losses that becomes a very real concern.
The other piece of that is, how bad are things if the EFL is worried about your ownership? This is of course speculation, that might not be the hurdle.
Ref point 2) For 4 and a bit years, the septic old liar kept a tiny management team and sanctioned most of the club's business himself, of this we're sure. It follows then that very little can have changed structurally, legally, financially without his direct involvement. The fact that there remains an "... enormous amount of due diligence that goes on behind the scenes..." suggests he's not been able to answer all the questions posed by the incoming new guys and their advisers. Nothing has changed in his tenure that he doesn't know about, therefore he took on CAFC without appraising himself of the facts. The decrepit cur doesn't know now cos he never asked before. Whatever shady smoke'n'mirrors deliberately veiled mechanism the spivs and their 'money man' (hollow laugh) used to acquire CAFC now has to be unpicked and that's what's taking the time. Hopefully that means the odious crackpot is ever further out of pocket. Sadly though, it puts back further and further any prospect of real planning for the coming season and with it the chances of on field success before January at best.
The main positive from all of this is that the Aussies could have walked at any time in the last year and bought another club, probably for less, without all the hassle that accompanies anything Duchatelet is involved in. That to me says they're desperate to own Charlton Athletic and have seen something special in us compared to other clubs.
The main positive from all of this is that the Aussies could have walked at any time in the last year and bought another club, probably for less, without all the hassle that accompanies anything Duchatelet is involved in. That to me says they're desperate to own Charlton Athletic and have seen something special in us compared to other clubs.
Yeah, we're an under performing mess but based in London.
Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
Booooooooo
Remember the millennium bug? No, because there wasn’t one. ;-(
Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
If it does reach 1000 pages, do NLA and I get some sort of award?
Douche, what accolade could possibly brighten your existence there in the depths of your orgy of self-congratulation? It ruins your eyesight, you know?
Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
Wait! You're saying this is the most popular thread on any subject, anywhere in the world?
No-one in the history of the internet has ever shared their views on a thread with more contributions than this one?
This topic is the most engaging, compelling, hottest ever, on any site on any subject?
Blimey.
Imagine starting this thread up and *still* not getting a promote.
If this reaches 1000 pages I can pretty much guarantee the last 30 odd posts on page 999 will be posters just writing ‘1,000’ on the hope they are the one to write the first post on that page.
I swear I read an article saying it would be "this week" last week by Cawley in the SLP or whatever it is he writes for.
So much fatigue from this now. It will happen, people writing sensational articles every other day for the past 6 months to boost their readership in a culture of dying news media are not really worth getting excited about, the sources on here seem a lot more "In the know" in a lot of cases.
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Just to add an additional band of excitement to this, but we can't find any other site that uses the same platform software carrying a thread beyond 3 digit pages. So your guess is as good as ours.
Should CL spontaneously combust. It was nice knowing you all :-)
Probably best all round.
But the one definite is that we will sign more players, maybe even players that make us a more balanced better team ?
Wait until once we've played 10 games with a full team.
We’ll see how fan friendly they are when they select
mea random fan for the board.1) I think we sometimes read too much into PR statements. The joint release is very bland, but that tends to be how those things are. It seems to confirm there is still a serious attempt for a deal to go through. Beyond that, I think we can pick it apart all day but it was almost certainly written by a PR person then reviewed by lawyers who may not have a ton of insight anyway.
2) The biggest question I keep coming back to is why has the deal stalled now? This is pure speculation, but I doubt much has changed on Roland's end, which leads me to think it's something to do with the Australians, and to me that means a problem with money and/or investors. I did a lengthier process of elimination post yesterday, but to me that's the only one that really makes sense.
3) This is the controversial one. IF the EFL has scuppered this deal because they are somehow concerned about the Australian bid, then I think we need to give them some credit. For as bad as things are under Roland, the club is not in administration. And if owners with not enough money take over, given our losses that becomes a very real concern.
The other piece of that is, how bad are things if the EFL is worried about your ownership? This is of course speculation, that might not be the hurdle.
It ruins your eyesight, you know?
No-one in the history of the internet has ever shared their views on a thread with more contributions than this one?
This topic is the most engaging, compelling, hottest ever, on any site on any subject?
Blimey.
Imagine starting this thread up and *still* not getting a promote.
So much fatigue from this now. It will happen, people writing sensational articles every other day for the past 6 months to boost their readership in a culture of dying news media are not really worth getting excited about, the sources on here seem a lot more "In the know" in a lot of cases.
WIOTOS, and until then, enjoy the world cup.