This would allow fans to focus fully upon the 25 year anniversary of the Return to The Valley and the celebrations organised by CARD without the odious Duchatelet Regime being represented during the event by Duchatelet's work-experience puppet, and now lame-duck sidekick, grinning defiantly in the Director's box as the justifiable chants of Roland Out ring around the ground.
Katrien Meire stated, early on in the now flawed experiment which has rocked the foundations of The Club, that 'Roland doesn't do failure'.
For a woman of undoubted intelligence such a statement demonstrated that despite her academic qualifications she was incapable of reasoned thought.
Meire had successfully carried out business contract negotiations for Duchaetlet whilst he was at Standard Liege but this did not equip her for the executive role as CEO which Duchatelet foisted upon her seemingly on a whim as part of his grand Social Engineering/Football project.
She should have recognised this and not bought so comprehensively into Duchatelet's frighteningly simplistic and ill-thought out business plan - one which would have been laughed out of Dragons Den and which only had legs due to his financial clout from his main electronics enterprise.
Now, nearly 4 years on, there were signs that Meire is accepting of the fact that the Regime was underprepared for the task of running Charlton and that mistakes were made. 'Lessons have been learnt' was the mantra churned out following relegation and at the beginning of this season.
Even then, Meire, who was quite clearly instructed by her PA and media advisers to cease from making public comments for fear of putting her foot in her mouth (e.g. on many well-documented previous occasions) could not help herself and spoke on the record to journalists in Belgium once again raising claims about her being unfairly hounded by fans rather than addressing her own epic failings as a CEO.
The game v Portsmouth is not about Katrien Meire it is about a significant piece of Charlton history which has been wonderfully articulated by Airman Brown and others in VOTV and in other CL threads.
It is my belief that Katrien Meire should recognise this, do the decent thing for once in her life and announce that she is not going to attend the Portsmouth game. If she is indeed in the last months of her tenure then that gesture would be very welcome indeed IMO.
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She wants her CV to record how she stood up to the bullying sexist xenophobes.
IF she does I hope she is given what she deserves.
Think it could be fun though if she did stand on the pitch with mic in hand!
It seems the club have only seen this game as an opportunity to bleed the away fans for a full price "golden" ticket knowing they would sell out. They should have made it a 1992 ticket price to induce a bigger home crowd to attend. But that's these idiots all over. Losing money hand over fist they'd rather make a desperate grab for some easy cash than worry about their own fans.
The clubs for sale Meire. Stay at home and put your feet up.
Otherwise you will see a packed out valley...which might shock you!
We know what happens to ducks come Christmas .....
( Apologies for offending anyone but needed to be said )
Must say, the pheasants in my garden are beginning to look rather plump lately.
and the sentence: 'The game v Portsmouth is not about Katrien Meire it is about a significant piece of Charlton history which has been wonderfully articulated by Airman Brown and others in VOTV and in other CL threads' does I think make that clear.
PS If I get a whoosh for this then I'll take it as I'm struggling with the logic!!!