Just saw this on Facebook
I don't want to go over old ground, concerning RD and KM, players purchases and lies etc, but there are a few interesting ground related things here
1) That the South Stand is becoming unsafe
2) Moving Away fans into the East stand
3) New Dugouts - certainly our existing ones don't reach PL standards (not that that particularly matters!)
Is there any truth in any of this from what others have heard?
Please don't say your on drugs or mad but I am prepared to give them another chance after speaking to Katrien on the train last night! She said to myself and Jon Whitfield this has been a long season and our current position in the league shows that 12 more points would of seen us fighting for play offs.
Now if what Karl Robinson said about players not caring is true then you can't blame her or Roland. It's not uncommon for owners to loan money to a club one being Bournemouth and the second to my astonishment is Chelsea! Both owners are only loaning money to the club.
I don't think we were ever in any danger of being relegated as there is so much s*** below us an us crying for a new owner doesn't mean the new mob will come in with good intentions. Yes they've made some disastrous decisions in management and transfers but from speaking to her next season will be a good one.
I said look what £3m did when we won League 1?!? She smiled nodded and said "I know an next season we will be buying the best players in League 1"
Other things discussed was moving away fans into the east stand empty blocks and giving both stands behind the goals back to home fans. In addition to this, she said their are plans to build a new south stand but this isn't in their immediate plans. She said a new construction is important as the stand is becoming unsafe. One last point on the stadium is the construction of new dug outs for 2017/18 which will ready in August.
Look at Coventry & Leyton Orient be careful what you wish for an it's better to have the devil you know than the one you don't. We've got one game left so let's support Karl and the team and finish the season off.
This summer will be telling on what players are bought in, kept and released. In my opinion it's time to support the club because in many ways I now look at Katrien and think f*** me she has some bollocks to take all this abuse and carry on.
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Karl Robinson likes to have a dug out behind the linesman in order to, ahem, influence him, so this might be happening, and the home/away areas will change, although it will probably be kitted out with sofas.
The South Stand being unsafe is possibly a red herring in order to build the residentials there and create a different possibly smaller area 9I have seen Rolands stadium at Stayen and it is both pitiful, and the design with competitive football in mind stinks to high heaven, it really really is crap, the experience at Kingstonian/Wimbledon is better.
if they want to do something decent with the Valley then make the north lower a standing area.
Examine the rules regarding league one clubs, get on to the footballing licence authorities, consult with Celtic and Bristol Rovers and German Clubs and Liverpool and Forest supporter groups too, get Efford on board, get the council on board, become a pilot scheme whilst in this division, throw some extra resources at safety and get the North lower going, to try for some atmosphere.
There you go Katrien, Cojones, Rubashow, Joynes, Duchatelet. A fecking good idea from a fan, but it will take some intelligent effort, so youse lot won't be able to handle it.
There is precedent.
The owner of Newcastle is very much like RD and he hates to lose money. But after being relegated last year he realized that it actually costs less to get back up than the amount you lose in enterprise value by being relegated. So he changed course, spent a ton this offseason and they are going right back up to the PL.
The counter-argument to this "new leaf" theory is the fact that RD has no idea how to actually win and does not realize that you must lose a LOT of money to do so. Cost cutting and "going-up" are negatively correlated.
At some point the
SouthJimmy Seed stand will need to be rebuilt, but that would be a major development, presumably clearing the existing banking. IF away fans had part of the East Stand, I can't see how they could access it, they'd presumably they'd have to go in via Landsdowne Mews which sounds unlikely to be allowed by the PoliceRemember people talking about the framing they were going to put around new disabled seating in the stand...
Glad to see the club told the truth
Oh dear............the laziest argument ever crafted for sitting on your hands and saying and doing nothing whilst Duchatelet systematically and cynically sets about turning Charlton into a clone of Sint Truiden with his in-house call centres, conference suites and dining areas etc.
Surely, the raison d'etre of any football club is to seek progression within the pyramid league structure -. It is called ambition - the rest follows on.
Duchatelet rather reverses that concept and openly (in the case of Sint Truiden) makes light of footballing ambition and condescendingly tells their fans (and by extension us) to concentrate instead on the match day experience, a beer and a post-match dance.
And you say be careful what you wish for................bollocks!
This is that same fella.
Unreal.
12 more points last season would've saved us from relegation.
But it's too late and the reason we didn't get those 12 points this season or last was consistent failure of Roland and his cronies.
3 wins and draw from 4 games and out come the deluded - not you @killerandflash , I'm referring to the FB comment
Of course she can talk about investment and change and doing things right. Fact remains they haven't done the right things since they've got here
Just sell the club
We all know what they want to do with the Jimmy south stand.
Dugouts are needed anyway. Can't fit half of Karl's coaches on there let alone physio etc and subs..
Also stop talking about seating I'm getting adverts for fold up gym seats on this page ffs.