Skim reading through cause this thread is tragic, but, are we at the stage of calling the owners penniless, the SMT a bunch of chancers and its all Andy Scotts fault yet?
A quick read through this thread has me scratching my head.
We are a club losing £8 million pounds a year. No wonder the owners want to try and recoup some of those losses and if this Wrexham game gives them a chance to do so, good luck to them.
As for the half and half scarves, no I wouldn't buy one but if some of the tourists coming tomorrow are stupid enough to pay £20 (or whatever they are going to be sold for) for one, then taking their money is good enough for me.
I really do doubt the vast majority of fans find this all embarrassing. Maybe the majority of those on here do but by and large they are the ones who eat, drink and breathe Charlton. There are many fans who aren't on here and maybe aren't as passionate in their support and I doubt if they are losing sleep over this, not least because they haven't got a clue what is going on and probably wouldn't care even if they did know.
If we are losing 8 million a year, how much difference is an extra 3k or so going to make for the sake of our pride.
If you think it isn't a lot of people, take a look at the replies in this thread:
And thats just one of many on social media. Now I know people may not care how we are perceived by other clubs and the general footballing world, but I bloody do. I'm a proud Charlton supporter, and I bleed a lot of time and money for this club, I don't want this type of gimmick to be how our club is viewed.
I can barely accept us being a league1 team. Rolling out the red carpet to a team who were let's have it right, irrelevant, only 5 or so years ago is sickening.
Meant to be the pride of the South and we are bending over backwards for Wrexham and some £s. Shameful.
They'll sing 'you're only here for the Wrexham' at the weekend, and because of the clubs antics, it's the first time there's gonna be a bit of truth behind it.
The lack of pride has me scratching my head. If we went to any ground in the world, and they were selling half and half scarves and talking up a game this much, we'd be giving them pelters, and rightly so. Absolute commercial, gimmicky bollocks.
For the sake of your mental health, please don’t get too wound up. The circus will be moved on after the weekend and everyone will have forgotten about it - that’s the way the modern world of social media works.
If even a few hundred local newcomers enjoy themselves and decide they want to come back for another game then I will take that as a massive positive out of the day.
I imagine there will be plenty of American day trippers tomorrow hoping to catch a glimpse of the TV personalities but they might just catch the Charlton bug and if they come away from the game thinking Charlton is their new team, that would be brilliant.
Half and half scarves in the official club shop is a big own goal.
A quick read through this thread has me scratching my head.
We are a club losing £8 million pounds a year. No wonder the owners want to try and recoup some of those losses and if this Wrexham game gives them a chance to do so, good luck to them.
As for the half and half scarves, no I wouldn't buy one but if some of the tourists coming tomorrow are stupid enough to pay £20 (or whatever they are going to be sold for) for one, then taking their money is good enough for me.
I really do doubt the vast majority of fans find this all embarrassing. Maybe the majority of those on here do but by and large they are the ones who eat, drink and breathe Charlton. There are many fans who aren't on here and maybe aren't as passionate in their support and I doubt if they are losing sleep over this, not least because they haven't got a clue what is going on and probably wouldn't care even if they did know.
If we are losing 8 million a year, how much difference is an extra 3k or so going to make for the sake of our pride.
If you think it isn't a lot of people, take a look at the replies in this thread:
And thats just one of many on social media. Now I know people may not care how we are perceived by other clubs and the general footballing world, but I bloody do. I'm a proud Charlton supporter, and I bleed a lot of time and money for this club, I don't want this type of gimmick to be how our club is viewed.
I can barely accept us being a league1 team. Rolling out the red carpet to a team who were let's have it right, irrelevant, only 5 or so years ago is sickening.
Meant to be the pride of the South and we are bending over backwards for Wrexham and some £s. Shameful.
They'll sing 'you're only here for the Wrexham' at the weekend, and because of the clubs antics, it's the first time there's gonna be a bit of truth behind it.
The lack of pride has me scratching my head. If we went to any ground in the world, and they were selling half and half scarves and talking up a game this much, we'd be giving them pelters, and rightly so. Absolute commercial, gimmicky bollocks.
For the sake of your mental health, please don’t get too wound up. The circus will be moved on after the weekend and everyone will have forgotten about it - that’s the way the modern world of social media works.
If even a few hundred local newcomers enjoy themselves and decide they want to come back for another game then I will take that as a massive positive out of the day.
I imagine there will be plenty of American day trippers tomorrow hoping to catch a glimpse of the TV personalities but they might just catch the Charlton bug and if they come away from the game thinking Charlton is their new team, that would be brilliant.
Being struck down with that is a nasty business and there's no known cure.
Looking forward to Jones doing the ceremonial roll of the red carpet from the tunnel for the Wrexham ownership, before they take their place on the golden thrones in the newly build 3rd dugout.
Hear we're renaming the Covered End the 'It's Always Sunny in Charlton' stand in remembrance of the big occasion tomorrow.
This will be our biggest selling home league attendance in 10 years (where we haven’t just given 5000 tickets away.)
Why shouldn’t the club try to monetise whatever they can from it and ALSO try to pick up a few new fans from the 10000 new faces who will be there.
so there are more emails flying about but there’s also been a big marketing campaign aimed at the younger generation that some of us probably haven’t seen. Whatever they are doing is working.
The way ffp now works means we can’t just get cash injections from a wealthy owner. We have to be self sustaining and can only spend a percentage of our revenue so anything that increases revenue is good in my book. This is football nowadays
You really are badly out of touch with our fanbase, this is a massive faux pas
Really? I can’t agree.
They are pushing the one game that will make money.
That’s the top and bottom really.
No one is being harmed by it in by any way.
No one is being harmed I agree.
But the vast majority of fans find the whole thing hugely embarrassing.
It's fucking Wrexham not Barcelona ffs.
Why is it ‘embarrassing’ though?
Dont all businesses advertise to death when they can to sell something?
It’s not a statement on any one fan.
If you cannot see how embarrassing it is then that's on you. Just look at the piss taking on social media for starters or read this thread. Our owners are supposed be Billionaires and I can't believe raising a couple of grand selling scarfs will affect them one bit. Hopefully they won't try anymore stunts like this in future
I’ve seen the way you dress . Half and Half scarfs are far less embarrassing 😂
This will be our biggest selling home league attendance in 10 years (where we haven’t just given 5000 tickets away.)
Why shouldn’t the club try to monetise whatever they can from it and ALSO try to pick up a few new fans from the 10000 new faces who will be there.
so there are more emails flying about but there’s also been a big marketing campaign aimed at the younger generation that some of us probably haven’t seen. Whatever they are doing is working.
The way ffp now works means we can’t just get cash injections from a wealthy owner. We have to be self sustaining and can only spend a percentage of our revenue so anything that increases revenue is good in my book. This is football nowadays
You really are badly out of touch with our fanbase, this is a massive faux pas
Really? I can’t agree.
They are pushing the one game that will make money.
That’s the top and bottom really.
No one is being harmed by it in by any way.
No one is being harmed I agree.
But the vast majority of fans find the whole thing hugely embarrassing.
It's fucking Wrexham not Barcelona ffs.
Why is it ‘embarrassing’ though?
Dont all businesses advertise to death when they can to sell something?
It’s not a statement on any one fan.
If you cannot see how embarrassing it is then that's on you. Just look at the piss taking on social media for starters or read this thread. Our owners are supposed be Billionaires and I can't believe raising a couple of grand selling scarfs will affect them one bit. Hopefully they won't try anymore stunts like this in future
I don’t engage on wider social media. So that’s on you ! 😉🙁
Social media is not representative of all.
The serious point is that we are trying to make money by selling ‘tat’ to whoever will take it. There is no need to be embarrassed by that.
Of course it’s small beer in isolation but if the scarf also sells a burger also sells a mug etc. then that is the commercial aim.
'I don't engage on social media' says @valleynick66 whilst engaging on social media
This will be our biggest selling home league attendance in 10 years (where we haven’t just given 5000 tickets away.)
Why shouldn’t the club try to monetise whatever they can from it and ALSO try to pick up a few new fans from the 10000 new faces who will be there.
so there are more emails flying about but there’s also been a big marketing campaign aimed at the younger generation that some of us probably haven’t seen. Whatever they are doing is working.
The way ffp now works means we can’t just get cash injections from a wealthy owner. We have to be self sustaining and can only spend a percentage of our revenue so anything that increases revenue is good in my book. This is football nowadays
You really are badly out of touch with our fanbase, this is a massive faux pas
Really? I can’t agree.
They are pushing the one game that will make money.
That’s the top and bottom really.
No one is being harmed by it in by any way.
No one is being harmed I agree.
But the vast majority of fans find the whole thing hugely embarrassing.
It's fucking Wrexham not Barcelona ffs.
Why is it ‘embarrassing’ though?
Dont all businesses advertise to death when they can to sell something?
It’s not a statement on any one fan.
If you cannot see how embarrassing it is then that's on you. Just look at the piss taking on social media for starters or read this thread. Our owners are supposed be Billionaires and I can't believe raising a couple of grand selling scarfs will affect them one bit. Hopefully they won't try anymore stunts like this in future
I’ve seen the way you dress . Half and Half scarfs are far less embarrassing 😂
So let me get this straight, CAST are expected to be against the club bringing in extra revenue via scarves 😂 some of you have lost the plot here.
You cannot possibly be defending this.
Club is a laughing stock (check twitter for evidence) for what might at best bring the club a couple of grand in revenue.
I’m not defending half and half scarves I laughed at them. I’m attacking the reaction to the half and half scarves, it’s not like they got “free Palestine” or “heil hitler” on them. It’s a product aimed at kids and nerds, who cares enough to be “embarrassed”? Not me.
And please, twitter? You can’t seriously use that platform as a source of evidence, its a cesspool of teenagers trying to look hard in front of their mates.
Charlton Athletic announced today that sales for tomorrow's home match against Wrexham are already at 23,200 and are expected to exceed 24,000 by kick-off.
This would constitute the club's largest home full paying attendance since the play-off semi-final in 2019, and the highest such Charlton regular season home gate of the last decade. Wrexham have sold 2,500 of their 3,100 allocation, meaning that upwards of 22,000 spectators will be in The Valley's home ends.
West Stand Lower has sold out and there are only 200 seats remaining in the Covered End, so the club has now made the last remaining blocks in the Alan Curbishley Stand and West Stand Upper available. Those tickets will still be available on the day, from Charlton's Ticket Office in the West Stand.
Over 4,000 of the crowd will be first-time visitors from the South East London and Kent area, together with 1,000 visitors from foreign countries.
Charlton CEO Charlie Methven said: "We are delighted with the attendance and looking forward to seeing what a packed-out Valley delivers in terms of atmosphere. The intention of our 'Welcome to London' campaign was precisely to encourage new local audiences to come and sample what Charlton has to offer, so it's gratifying for our marketing team to see so many local first-time attendees. It's important to note, though, that the sheer number of 'first-timers' will bring with it a few operational challenges. We would encourage all fans to arrive as early as possible."
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If even a few hundred local newcomers enjoy themselves and decide they want to come back for another game then I will take that as a massive positive out of the day.
I imagine there will be plenty of American day trippers tomorrow hoping to catch a glimpse of the TV personalities but they might just catch the Charlton bug and if they come away from the game thinking Charlton is their new team, that would be brilliant.
Half and half scarves in the official club shop is a big own goal.
One more sleep!
Hear we're renaming the Covered End the 'It's Always Sunny in Charlton' stand in remembrance of the big occasion tomorrow.
Get in the hole
And please, twitter? You can’t seriously use that platform as a source of evidence, its a cesspool of teenagers trying to look hard in front of their mates.
Hollywood is coming, Hollywood is coming
Charlton Athletic announced today that sales for tomorrow's home match against Wrexham are already at 23,200 and are expected to exceed 24,000 by kick-off.
This would constitute the club's largest home full paying attendance since the play-off semi-final in 2019, and the highest such Charlton regular season home gate of the last decade. Wrexham have sold 2,500 of their 3,100 allocation, meaning that upwards of 22,000 spectators will be in The Valley's home ends.
West Stand Lower has sold out and there are only 200 seats remaining in the Covered End, so the club has now made the last remaining blocks in the Alan Curbishley Stand and West Stand Upper available. Those tickets will still be available on the day, from Charlton's Ticket Office in the West Stand.
Over 4,000 of the crowd will be first-time visitors from the South East London and Kent area, together with 1,000 visitors from foreign countries.
Charlton CEO Charlie Methven said: "We are delighted with the attendance and looking forward to seeing what a packed-out Valley delivers in terms of atmosphere. The intention of our 'Welcome to London' campaign was precisely to encourage new local audiences to come and sample what Charlton has to offer, so it's gratifying for our marketing team to see so many local first-time attendees. It's important to note, though, that the sheer number of 'first-timers' will bring with it a few operational challenges. We would encourage all fans to arrive as early as possible."