FC Charlton

HarryLime said:

Not for me it isn't. Bloody hell it took 14 years for AFC Wimbledon to get where we are now. I'll be in my seventies by then. I'll take my chances and try and get rid the idiots.

Should only take 7 years to get to the same level as Charlton.

It's a good question. It's not something that I would rule out. For me, it's not just about the level we play at, it's the whole spirit of the club that is important. KM is right about one thing - the match day experience is important. Yes, I enjoyed the Premiership years, but I've enjoyed plenty of other periods at Charlton. The current situation is just unpleasant and not enjoyable. Yes, it is connected to the level we are playing, but everyone (surely) knows that it's not just about playing in League 1. There were many who said that they would take relegation last year if RD and his cronies disappeared. Well, we've got the first half of that - if only, we knew when the second half would happen. This mess isn't necessarily at its lowest point yet. There are plenty of businesses that go through bad times and recover, but to recover there needs to be something positive to make that recovery happen. I'm struggling to find one positive thing right now.

Not for me. Owners come and go in football... Roland won't be here forever, even though it's killing us all at the moment. Not really comparable to the AFC situation as Roland doesn't have plans to up sticks and move us north (I hope)...

Yes got to be thought about

Not for me, won't be necessary anyway, we will get these idiots out of our club.

I wouldnt rule it out either, and I'd be supportive - but realistically I'm not going to be desperately motivated to travel an hour to watch 8th-tier football. SO it would be a real last resort.

The Wimbledon analogy is not a good one - the original club left South London, so the carrying on regardless (as a supporter) was not an option. With FC United, I wonder how many of their fans sneak along to Old Trafford if offereed a ticket - and note also that they ain't in the FL yet...

No, the time for that will be when we don't have a club anymore; at the moment, we do, and we are fighting tooth and nail for it!

Football needs a reboot, not just Charlton. For that reason I think a future of fan owned and run clubs competing against each other will be the way to go. And a similar takeover of the FA would be in order too.

I support Charlton. The team my Granddad watched in the 20s. The team my Dad saw win the FA Cup in 47. The team I helped win back its place at The Valley in 92.

I don't support other clubs. Including those set up, funded or run by passionate, committed supporters of their own teams, like Ebbsfleet, Lewes and AFC Wimbledon.

I wouldn't support "FC Charlton". They're not mine. Whatever Katrien Meire might say or think, Charlton Athletic is mine. I'm not switching allegiance to another football club - whatever its founders' honest intentions - I'm sticking with mine.

My energy is going into throwing out the current owners, not setting up a non-League "rival".

Brendan_O_Connell said:

Creation of FC Charlton/AFC Charlton would be admitting defeat.

We're Charlton Athletic and we don't do that!

I'm pretty sure the team have been doing that around the 80th minute nearly every game for the last 3 years.

It's Charlton Athletic or nothing for me

Brendan_O_Connell said:

Creation of FC Charlton/AFC Charlton would be admitting defeat.

We're Charlton Athletic and we don't do that!

Agree
Charlton were established by football fans on Siemens Meadows in the days when Siemens were an English company. The Belgians have acquired the assets but they don't own the club and never can do since the goodwill is vested in the fans. If the fans desert they will still not own the club only the assets but the assets will have less value. The players would be of zero value as walking assets and only the land as a brownfield building site would have any worth. That would not be as much as many on here think and would not cover Roly's loans

The intangible goodwill of the fans is what makes or breaks a club whether it be Man U or Hitchin Town. We could transfer the support to an AFC Charlton but it would not be CAFC and would not leave me grimacing every time another disastrous result is achieved by the current management team. CAFC is our club in the same way as Valley Floyd Road and Red Red Robin are our songs.

A company that is a going concern is frequently valued at more than its net asset value because it has a propensity to deliver income, generate goodwill. If it is not a going concern it is just a fire sale asset. If Roly took away his support and stopped lending or demanded a return the impairment of the asset would crystalise.

He must recognise that there is a point of no return as Commodore MIere and First officer Cahones use the satellite navigation of Driesen and steerage of Slade to wreck the ship. The engines have been cut. He has to jump overboard soon or they will even wreck his lifeboat.

Wimbledon was very different. The club was stolen from its home and relocated miles away. The name was then changed. Nothing remained of Wimbledon, so in effect the fans were starting again.

The only time I could see this happening is if Duchatalet sold The Valley, moved us to Basingstoke and renamed us CA Basingstoke Belgians. The something might spring from the embers.