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***SLP: CARD calling for a Season Ticket Boycott***

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  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Weegie Addick said:

    I find it terribly sad that it has come to this.
    I hope between CARD and the Trust that we can find a way to capture the disaffection and shove it under Roland's nose. Will have a think...

    Perhaps something along the line of getting all of this years season tickets of those that are not renewing and give them to Roland or katrien in front of a big audience. A bit like that palace bloke that issued the court orders at our press conference unveiling dowie.
    Imagine thousands of them being dumped on the table in front of Meire whilst she's announcing something like trapeze artists will be somersaulting from the north stand to further improve our matchday experience.
  • Ted\'s Addicksson
    Ted\'s Addicksson Posts: 555
    We are gonna be the best supported away team in the 3rd division.

    PS. Never had a season ticket and I'm not gonna start now!!

    Well done all of you who are making this sacrifice for the cause.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Well played CARD. Tragic it's come to this. Fuck off Duchatelet, Meire, Murray and all your cronies.
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,252
    My 4 will not be renewing until the owner goes.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    Breaks my heart but no ST for me and Davo Junior until this regime is gone.

    Will still go to some games next season - not least because we still have to get bodies to the protests - but will pick and choose, overall spending a lot less.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,147
    Ted\'s Addicksson said:

    We are gonna be the best supported away team in the 3rd division.

    PS. Never had a season ticket and I'm not gonna start now!!

    Well done all of you who are making this sacrifice for the cause.

    with home /away percentages much improved , i might have to start supporting this regime, this could be my footballing nirvana reached , thanks Roland , now i get ya
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    me + 2 no renew
  • gilbertfilbert
    gilbertfilbert Posts: 2,282
    I shall renew as soon as this rotten regime has gone, and not a moment earlier. As I tried to say on another thread, could CARD keep some form of register of ST pledges to reassure prospective new owners that we will be back to support them?
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited February 2016
    Fortune 82nd Minute said:

    I bought our current seats in the East Stand for my son and myself in January 1988 when I thought we were on the cusp of something good and wanted to make sure we had good seats if we got to the Premiership! That was a good call!

    18 years later we are still in the same seats but most of the people from the Premiership years are long gone and only a few old stalwarts still remain.

    But sadly, and with a heavy heart, I will be joining the missing ranks next season and not be renewing either ticket. Breaks my heart because my son is now a grown man, with his own life, but the one thing we still do together religiously is come to Charlton. I suspect as we get out of the habit of coming, we will find other things to do and I suspect our time together on a Saturday afternoon will come to an end.

    Roland, you are a complete cnut for destroying a Saturday afternoon at the Valley with my son - something that is still precious to me. I don't usually wish people ill but I do you.

    Christ, the east stand must have been fun in 1988, you must have been sitting in amongst weeds.
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,699
    Really breaks my heart 55 years supporting, not missed many home games in that time, 30+ years season ticket holder but my 3 not being renewed until the regime is gone.
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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    Not accurate but going back through the comments so far I counted 65 in total not renewing
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    gilbertfilbert said:

    I shall renew as soon as this rotten regime has gone, and not a moment earlier. As I tried to say on another thread, could CARD keep some form of register of ST pledges to reassure prospective new owners that we will be back to support them?

    CARD are meeting next week and we can discuss this then. My personal view is that there are relatively few of us and we are all working hard to do the things we're doing - not sure we have the time to keep a register like this.

    Unless someone on here wants to take it on?
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    edited February 2016
    gilbertfilbert said:

    I shall renew as soon as this rotten regime has gone, and not a moment earlier. As I tried to say on another thread, could CARD keep some form of register of ST pledges to reassure prospective new owners that we will be back to support them?

    @gilbertfilbert, Yes I agree some sort of register of those not renewing if possible would be a good idea. I have concerns that if we want another investor to come and buy RD out, we will need to show that, should that happen, we would welcome the new owners with open arms and season tickets will be bought again.
    I would not want prospective 'buyers' to think they were investing in a lost cause, we need to show this is about the 'rotten' current regime and that we are not a normally rebel-rousing group of supporters, but we just want a level headed owner with ambition and a CEO who knows what they are doing!!
    The last thing we need to do is frighten away potential new buyers, we need to show, whoever they are, to see this is a great club to invest in and we would support them (providing intentions are good of course).
    I have no inside information and I'm not in the know (as many of you know I just do the match thread), but there have been rumours around that there are people willing to buy us, not just PV's group, and if I were a potential buyer I would want to know I had supporters, who are the lifeblood of the club, on my side.
    Now I don't know how we fully show that at the same time as trying to get rid of RD, but perhaps a statement of intent in the press or such like so we could reassure potential buyers?
    Just my thoughts of course, to coin a phrase 'we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater!!'
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,521
    Davo55 said:

    gilbertfilbert said:

    I shall renew as soon as this rotten regime has gone, and not a moment earlier. As I tried to say on another thread, could CARD keep some form of register of ST pledges to reassure prospective new owners that we will be back to support them?

    CARD are meeting next week and we can discuss this then. My personal view is that there are relatively few of us and we are all working hard to do the things we're doing - not sure we have the time to keep a register like this.

    Unless someone on here wants to take it on?
    Might be something for the Trust @Davo55 - see my comments above?

  • ChiAddick
    ChiAddick Posts: 1,781
    C4FC4L1f3 said:

    I must admit I will probably start going to see Tonbridge Angels to fill the void.

    Yea same. Especially if they get promoted. Decent set up down there.
  • PeterGage
    PeterGage Posts: 1,793
    Davo55 said:

    gilbertfilbert said:

    I shall renew as soon as this rotten regime has gone, and not a moment earlier. As I tried to say on another thread, could CARD keep some form of register of ST pledges to reassure prospective new owners that we will be back to support them?

    CARD are meeting next week and we can discuss this then. My personal view is that there are relatively few of us and we are all working hard to do the things we're doing - not sure we have the time to keep a register like this.

    Unless someone on here wants to take it on?
    I am happy to take this on. Perhaps CARD can suggest the level of detail I should be given by those opting out (I am not up to scratch with data protection issues). Perhaps name and "client reference number" would suffice. I await advice.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    cabbles said:

    Not accurate but going back through the comments so far I counted 65 in total not renewing

    Hopefully it will get up to 6500.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    We do have a responsibilty to the club we love in all of this, and that is buy season tickets again as soon as the regime changes. We need to do that deal with ourselves.Otherwise we will only be helping Duchatelet kill this club.
  • Buglehorn
    Buglehorn Posts: 1,002
    I will not renew whilst Duchbag, Meire and Murray remain destroying the club but will buy one again when the owners change. Havnt spent a penny at the valley since October. Next season will go to some away games.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,812
    Clem_Snide said:

    I'm struggling with this. There are 3 season tickets in our house and as much as I say fuck 'em I'm not going, when kick-off is looming the "pang" to attend comes along and I go. I guess that is what 37 years attendance does to you. Assume Meire would find that weird.

    Anyway, the point for me is I won't stop going. I can't I suppose. I also don't want to loose my seat (unlikely, but always a chance).

    I am on board with the reasons why STs should be boycotted, but ultimately I don't want going to cost us more than it should. If I don't buy one I will end up buying for every home game and being out of pocket and in my mind giving the regime more money.

    Tough decision.

    exactly my thoughts
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  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,188
    Not renewing after 16 and a half seasons. Living a few streets from The Valley, it's going to be weird not to be a part of it - I can hear Big Dave through my bathroom window.

    But Katrien Meire has made it perfectly clear she holds fans in contempt, and Roland Duchâtelet is clearly delusional and a danger to the club. They have to go, and I'm not giving them another penny of my money.

    Everyone's going to make their own decision. We're all in different circumstances and that means we'll do different things. I've got every respect for that, and don't envy those with kids that love it or cherish time with family at the match - agonies that Duchâtelet is simply incapable of understanding. All I do is amble down Wellington Gardens at a quarter to three.

    Some will stay, some will switch to non-league (I've been going to Dulwich and enjoying it, and plan to do that instead), some will find other things to do. I'll try to catch up with a few away days, something I haven't done since that Marvin Sordell hat trick at Sheffield Wednesday. But until the club is run by people who respect fans and want to rebuild genuine relationships with the outside world, I'll be taking a break from The Valley.
  • BetterCallSaul
    BetterCallSaul Posts: 354
    I haven't been a season ticket holder for a good 10 years now for a variety of reasons but I have tried to go to as many games as I possibly can (even if it has meant dragging myself against my will) but I have only been to one this season (the very first game against QPR...seems like a lifetime ago now) and I sure as hell won't be the owner's pockets any more until he's gone.

    All of the above stories are seriously breaking my heart. I can't comprehend how hard it is for someone being a season ticket holder for decades to just stop.

    We'll all be back one day though. Mark my words, we'll be back.
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,899
    just praying they clear off before July so I don't have to make a very tough decision and I've had one since 1983
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,740
    We won't be renewing out three season tickets until the cowboys get out of town.
  • STLeonards
    STLeonards Posts: 77
    After 49 years I'm no longer going to home games. When I get my season ticket renewal form, I'm going to post it back to them not filled in, and with my ongoing dementia, I'll probably forget to put a stamp on it. Silly me!
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,169
    Macronate said:

    won't be renewing but would echo the sentiment that it's got nothing to do with the crapness of the football and the 'fact' we'll be playing L1 football next season. There is no conceivable way we should be in this position and it is solely down to the pathetic business model that we have been exposed to by the moron/s at the top.

    will renew as soon as they're gone.

    I've never been a season ticket holder but the most I've ever been in a season was our last L1 season, and that was on the back of our lowest ever finish the season before. The reason I decided to go to so many games wasn't because I had some premonition of how good the team would be, but because of the feeling Chris Powell had generated around the club and how much I enjoyed seeing the team that represented Charlton. There were some crap games in there but I never left the ground feeling lost because there was an identity and a feeling that even if we finished 18th it would still be our Charlton. I'd rather see the team down a division with a manager and a plan that we could believe in than continuing on with this dead-alive business model, scraping by every season with the same mistakes being made over and over
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    In the immortal words of NLA "not another fucking sheckle till these scumbags are gone".
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    paulbaconsarnie said:

    Weegie Addick said:

    I find it terribly sad that it has come to this.
    I hope between CARD and the Trust that we can find a way to capture the disaffection and shove it under Roland's nose. Will have a think...

    Perhaps something along the line of getting all of this years season tickets of those that are not renewing and give them to Roland or katrien in front of a big audience. A bit like that palace bloke that issued the court orders at our press conference unveiling dowie.
    Imagine thousands of them being dumped on the table in front of Meire whilst she's announcing something like trapeze artists will be somersaulting from the north stand to further improve our matchday experience.
    last home game of the season all walk down to the front on the stands on a set minute and throw them on the pitch then walk out

  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,221
    Large, your parents are Charlton stalwarts. what do they think of all this?
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Not renewing. For obvious reasons but I have found the acceptance quite liberating. God - there are so many better things to do with a Saturday than watch this shower of shit. Haven't been for ages and don't even miss it. Have spent some great time with the family. If you can't cope with the thought of not sitting down the valley with 2000 others (cos that's what it is looking like) paying into the Belgians pockets and watching shit football - you probably need to look at why you don't have a better alternative for a Saturday!

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