I posted this the Fans Forum update, but maybe its more appropriate here
Ironically this bonkers scenario isn’t uncommon here in Australia. The Australian Football Federation has owned clubs here in the effort to establish regional football clubs. Once they are viable, they get passed on to “new” owners. I find it laughable myself but here things are a lot different in many ways including clubs not owning their own grounds. Is it possible that the Australian model also exists within Belgium and this is perhaps the nutbags reason for suggesting it
'The first seasons under Duchatelet Charlton finished 18th and 10th in the Championship. After two years of ownership without problems Charlton got too many injuries relative to its limited squad size. Results were poor. Fans started to criticise and then protest, sometimes during the games, which didn’t help. Charlton got relegated to League One.'
yep, all down to our limited squad size.
Ummmm for the record we finished 12th in 2014-2015. I'm very concerned that neither the OS or Roland knows that
Roland thinks his network players saved us from relegation under Riga. I wouldn't care too much what he thinks - reality is not something he suffers from!
'The first seasons under Duchatelet Charlton finished 18th and 10th in the Championship. After two years of ownership without problems Charlton got too many injuries relative to its limited squad size. Results were poor. Fans started to criticise and then protest, sometimes during the games, which didn’t help. Charlton got relegated to League One.'
yep, all down to our limited squad size.
Ummmm for the record we finished 12th in 2014-2015. I'm very concerned that neither the OS or Roland knows that
Interesting that the statement on the website has now been amended! Any other changes made to it?
So we're in a position where our owner is asking the EFL to buy him out!! When i first saw this earlier this evening I thought it was a joke, spoof or a hack onto the official club website, but no it was for real. It must now be obvious to everybody the man is beyond deluded, he is asking an organisation that caters for 71 other clubs to buy 1 of their competitors and run it, and rent the ground if they cant buy it....unbelievable! However this rant, in my eyes is serious. The question is what can be done to finally get him to drop his price before he runs the club into the ground? He wants out, so any thoughts of him spending any money on player contracts, getting new players in, offering contracts to LB and JJ is pie in the sky. So where could that leave us in the summer? 8 or 9 contracted players, youngsters and little or no management. Time is running out, perhaps all fan forums can unite and look for common ground in how to save CAFC from what must now be obvious to everyone - an owner, who by his own admission, has little time (2%) for the club, and by his own admission has and never has had any ambition for the club, and once again, by his own admission, should NOT have been allowed to buy the club by the EFL. The issue I have on top of all of the above, is he has been banging on through LDT about Aussies buying the club, only to say today that he won't sell to foreign owners, unless I'm mistaken aren't Aussies foreign owners? This man needs to be removed from the ownership of this great club, his experiment has failed, its time he moved on, its time he dropped his price and let a new beginning dawn. As a normally peaceful 64 year old - Its time for constructive action!!
re Foreign Owners - who know what is happening inside Roland's thick skull, but it would not surprise me if he thinks Australia is still a convict colony of the UK!
What we HAVE seen in the past is that Roland clearly uses the word "foreign" as a synonym for "non-white", especially people from Africa and the Far East, and in an anti-Muslim context when referring to immigrants to Belgium.
Gave up on that link after reading “Not been expressed very well but I think somewhere in there he has a point”.
Yeah, I think that poster really didn't get the context. It's almost as if Coventry weren't owned by tw**s who anyone might protest against.
At present, jury is out on whether it was Charlton fans or Roland's other enemies using us as a smokescreen. Also, we're not protesting about him putting money in, we're protesting about him not understanding the need to be competitive in football and how he has spent the money he has put in. Total disrespect from Roland to anyone with any football knowledge.
One other thing. He’s blaming the EFL for changing the FFP rules, but isn’t it the case that the members changed the rules, and the EFL just enforces them. If he couldn’t convince a majority to stick with the old rules that’s not the EFLs fault.
If he’s sectioned and Belgian law is the same as the UK we’ll be run by the Belgian state. Lucky he’s not British and we get lumbered with Theresa May.
The demand, unprecedented and impossible, was made in a lengthy statement Duchatelet wrote on the Charlton website this afternoon. The rest of the statement blamed the EFL for Charlton’s demise under Duchatelet, as well as for Duchatelet’s failure to sell the club.'
He kind of hold himself together for the first half of that, but then you can almost see the images flashing in his mind of the graffiti, and those shadowy masked and wigged figures desecrating his properties (and those of his friends and friends of friends) and he totally loses the plot, more so than he ever has before. Make no mistake, he is on the ropes now. One or two more blows like on Sunday/Monday in the very near future will finish him off.
I'm usually confident about my English vocabulary but reading the title of this statement I had to look up the word "acquire" to see if it had other meanings than what I used to know as it was too hard to believe...
I'm usually confident about my English vocabulary but reading the title of this statement I had to look up the word "acquire" to see if it had other meanings than what I used to know as it was too hard to believe...
I woke up to find the story on the BBC online News! Charlton, in my morning news feed? What's going on. I had to wait until now to read the thoughts of Lifers and of course you were as astonished as me!
He's cracking! Now whether that's a good or bad thing, who knows, but as for being a fit and proper person to run a football club must now be in serious doubt. I don't even think he's sufficiently fit and proper to run a duct tape shoe repair business on thee streets of St Truiden!
He kind of hold himself together for the first half of that, but then you can almost see the images flashing in his mind of the graffiti, and those shadowy masked and wigged figures desecrating his properties (and those of his friends and friends of friends) and he totally loses the plot, more so than he ever has before. Make no mistake, he is on the ropes now. One or two more blows like on Sunday/Monday in the very near future will finish him off.
It feels like those two parts were written by different people (or maybe the first part was checked by someone).
It all feels very uncomfortable. At first it seemed quite funny - or, if not funny, so ridiculous that my brain went into some kind of Monty Python mode. Waking up this morning, it’s put me back on the path that I imagined two years or so ago - this club will either be gone or be unrecognisable before he leaves.
If only someone would walk in and say “right, stop this sketch, it’s getting too silly”. It’s actually deeply depressing, in my view.
Disappointed in those comments. The protests are not about how the team is doing, they are about ridding ourselves of Roland. What happens on the pitch is of no consequence.
Large, agree that it's not been about results for those of us who have been protesting on principle from he outset. However, the point I think Clive is trying to make here is that there has clearly been little appetite from the "just get behind the boys" mass of those still attending games this season and (until January at least) enjoying what they were seeing. So from that perspective, another big protest is only likely to be successful when everyone is back on side and that may be result dependent. If we drop out of the top six (looking less likely given the lack of a better challenger) and the play-offs are in real doubt, then we might see a sea-change in terms of all out support for more active protests. Given everything that's been tried to date, it's also hard to see what else we can do that's different to garner mass support for a protest.
Does anyone know if Jim White and co are going to pick this up on TalkShite this morning? I think this rant needs to be 'aired' and see what JW gotta say about his new bestie now?
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Ironically this bonkers scenario isn’t uncommon here in Australia. The Australian Football Federation has owned clubs here in the effort to establish regional football clubs. Once they are viable, they get passed on to “new” owners. I find it laughable myself but here things are a lot different in many ways including clubs not owning their own grounds. Is it possible that the Australian model also exists within Belgium and this is perhaps the nutbags reason for suggesting it
However this rant, in my eyes is serious. The question is what can be done to finally get him to drop his price before he runs the club into the ground? He wants out, so any thoughts of him spending any money on player contracts, getting new players in, offering contracts to LB and JJ is pie in the sky. So where could that leave us in the summer? 8 or 9 contracted players, youngsters and little or no management. Time is running out, perhaps all fan forums can unite and look for common ground in how to save CAFC from what must now be obvious to everyone - an owner, who by his own admission, has little time (2%) for the club, and by his own admission has and never has had any ambition for the club, and once again, by his own admission, should NOT have been allowed to buy the club by the EFL. The issue I have on top of all of the above, is he has been banging on through LDT about Aussies buying the club, only to say today that he won't sell to foreign owners, unless I'm mistaken aren't Aussies foreign owners?
This man needs to be removed from the ownership of this great club, his experiment has failed, its time he moved on, its time he dropped his price and let a new beginning dawn. As a normally peaceful 64 year old - Its time for constructive action!!
re Foreign Owners - who know what is happening inside Roland's thick skull, but it would not surprise me if he thinks Australia is still a convict colony of the UK!
What we HAVE seen in the past is that Roland clearly uses the word "foreign" as a synonym for "non-white", especially people from Africa and the Far East, and in an anti-Muslim context when referring to immigrants to Belgium.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47404351
"Charlton Athletic owner Roland Duchatelet stunned the Football League today by demanding that the EFL buys the club from him.
The demand, unprecedented and impossible, was made in a lengthy statement Duchatelet wrote on the Charlton website this afternoon. The rest of the statement blamed the EFL for Charlton’s demise under Duchatelet, as well as for Duchatelet’s failure to sell the club.'
Some great stuff there.
RD has completely lost the plot.
Make no mistake, he is on the ropes now. One or two more blows like on Sunday/Monday in the very near future will finish him off.
Just ridiculous... no doubt it will go the way of the last insane outburst... 2 months of silence ahead and still we are no closer to selling.
He's cracking! Now whether that's a good or bad thing, who knows, but as for being a fit and proper person to run a football club must now be in serious doubt. I don't even think he's sufficiently fit and proper to run a duct tape shoe repair business on thee streets of St Truiden!
If only someone would walk in and say “right, stop this sketch, it’s getting too silly”. It’s actually deeply depressing, in my view.