The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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Exactly.Briston_Addick said:
Don't Dream It's Over.catfordmorry said:
Two words.JamesSeed said:
Interesting there isn’t a word that means the opposite of lonely. If there was, I’d be that.bazjonster said:
Serious question. Are you lonely?JamesSeed said:Just sent this to the club:
‘After speaking to two people from the Australian consortium hoping to buy the club, I am happy to withdraw my request for the return of my grandfather’s bust.’
The Aussies are as we speak preparing a statement, which they plan to release tomorrow.
They are NOT about to announce that the sale has been completed. But I believe it should be positive news. I certainly bloody hope so.
Crowded House.0 -
Equally you need to be careful that you don’t relay what one former director is being told and take it as the full story, unless you know he is hearing it directly from both sides.nth london addick said:Jimmy it’s not incorrect the difference is I have no bias in what I share all I want is RD gone your source does not want to release the info that has dogged them from the start ref funds
I assure you the pup lines being told from within are not the ones I speak
Be careful who you believe mate is all i say24 -
Am I missing something or are you seriously inferring your mob was Mohammed Bin Salman?Redhenry said:
They are aware of the situation, this doesn't mean they are coming back though.creepyaddick said:Quick, ring the Prince, email him, text him, fookin pigeon mail him, we need him and his dough!
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The two were not (in the First World War) necessarily mutually exclusive.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_(Royal_Naval)_Division.Henry Irving said:WIOTOS
Remind me to never to stand next to some of you when the order to go over the top is given.
I would have been in the senior service but you know what I mean2 -
And I just want to know who is going to deliver my season ticket.Valley11 said:This thread is so powerful it’s even killed the annual ‘when’s the new Kit being released’ thread.
That is serious power.0 -
*awaits can last man out the building turn off the lights joke*Scoham said:Now this is done the takeover can go through.
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FishCostaFortune said:
*awaits can last man out the building turn off the lights joke*Scoham said:Now this is done the takeover can go through.
'Last one out the building leave the lights on as rolands paying the bill'16 -
I will be standing next to NLA when the order is given because like him I have never believed we have even been close to a deal being agreed upon between seller & buyer.Henry Irving said:WIOTOS
Remind me to never to stand next to some of you when the order to go over the top is given.
I would have been in the senior service but you know what I mean0 -
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There are lights installed but Roland never had them connected to the mains so save money.FishCostaFortune said:
*awaits can last man out the building turn off the lights joke*Scoham said:Now this is done the takeover can go through.
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I'm fortunate enough to know both @nth london addick and @JamesSeed and apart from one's inability to return some keys and the others dodgy spanner connections I think they are both honest guys telling us what they've heard without any agenda.JamesSeed said:Message from the Aussies @nth london addick
‘All incorrect’.
So all I can say #teamWIOTOS and onward to 1000 pages10 -
Funnily enough the electrics and lighting at The Valley need some work. Quite a lot in fact. So they may just turn themselves out if left unattendedcafcfan said:
There are lights installed but Roland never had them connected to the mains so save money.FishCostaFortune said:
*awaits can last man out the building turn off the lights joke*Scoham said:Now this is done the takeover can go through.
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I think the pin stripes are great and the red and black stripes on the away kit are the dogs bollocks. Not sure about the suffragette third kitThe Red Robin said:
I don't like the new kit.Valley11 said:This thread is so powerful it’s even killed the annual ‘when’s the new Kit being released’ thread.
That is serious power.3 -
Good point. The Navy had to help the army out as usual : - )NornIrishAddick said:
The two were not (in the First World War) necessarily mutually exclusive.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_(Royal_Naval)_Division.Henry Irving said:WIOTOS
Remind me to never to stand next to some of you when the order to go over the top is given.
I would have been in the senior service but you know what I mean1 -
No we are getting back on track, my great uncle Arthur Hearne was in 13 Platoon, D Coy, Hawke Battalion, he served in Gallipoli and was invalided out after being wounded on the Somme in the Ancre Valley attack, 13 November 1916. The letters I have from him are all censored by a Lt Turnbull who was killed the same day and buried in Ancre CWGC.NornIrishAddick said:
The two were not (in the First World War) necessarily mutually exclusive.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_(Royal_Naval)_Division.Henry Irving said:WIOTOS
Remind me to never to stand next to some of you when the order to go over the top is given.
I would have been in the senior service but you know what I mean
They were a cracking Division who fought further notable actions at Gavrelle in April 1917, Passchendaele, The Flesquieres Pocket March 1918 and key to the Last Hundred Days of the War. Many will remember their memorial (a Lutyens Fountain) being in the Royal Naval College when we were younger, it was returned to its original location on Horse Guards (it was removed during the Blitz to Greenwich), around 2000 from memory.
They will always be immortalised by AP Herberts Poem about their tee-total Commander General Shute after he banned the rum - ration:
The General inspecting the trenches
Exclaimed with a horrified shout
'I refuse to command a division
Which leaves its excreta about.'
But nobody took any notice
No one was prepared to refute,
That the presence of shit was congenial
Compared to the presence of Shute.
And certain responsible critics
Made haste to reply to his words
Observing that his staff advisors
Consisted entirely of turds.
For shit may be shot at odd corners
And paper supplied there to suit,
But a shit would be shot without mourners
If somebody shot that shit Shute
If anything guarantees 1000 pages on this thread then its 'mentioning the war' to me, and bringing poetry back to the table,
good plan @Henry Irving !16 -
I'm sure @Redhenry has confirmed his previously.CAFCsayer said:
Am I missing something or are you seriously inferring your mob was Mohammed Bin Salman?Redhenry said:
They are aware of the situation, this doesn't mean they are coming back though.creepyaddick said:Quick, ring the Prince, email him, text him, fookin pigeon mail him, we need him and his dough!
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Have I missed something here?CAFCsayer said:
Am I missing something or are you seriously inferring your mob was Mohammed Bin Salman?Redhenry said:
They are aware of the situation, this doesn't mean they are coming back though.creepyaddick said:Quick, ring the Prince, email him, text him, fookin pigeon mail him, we need him and his dough!
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And call the Australian talking clockCafcTeckers said:FishCostaFortune said:
*awaits can last man out the building turn off the lights joke*Scoham said:Now this is done the takeover can go through.
'Last one out the building leave the lights on as rolands paying the bill'0 -
Separating the ownership of the ground from the club would be an unmitigated disaster - especially with Duchatelet as our landlord. We tried that before and it wasn’t terribly successful.
Much better for the Aussies to pull out and to let Duchatelet bleed unless or until he comes to his senses and agrees a realistic price with them or another buyer. A few huge protests may encourage him to come to his senses.
I fear that we are in for a war of attrition and will have to suffer for a little longer.5 -
I should have mentioned that I would have bravely volunteered to defend Ottawa (mostly because Alice Springs would have been too hot and dry for me)....Henry Irving said:
Good point. The Navy had to help the army out as usual : - )NornIrishAddick said:
The two were not (in the First World War) necessarily mutually exclusive.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_(Royal_Naval)_Division.Henry Irving said:WIOTOS
Remind me to never to stand next to some of you when the order to go over the top is given.
I would have been in the senior service but you know what I mean0 - Sponsored links:
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I now cant work out whether I am coming here for takeover news or a WW1 history lesson? The later is proving more useful than the former, but hey ho!2
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With regards to separating The Valley from CAFC, I would just say look at Coventry City!! They have one final year at the Ricoh and that only after virtually begging to play there this coming season. Season 19/20 they haven't a clue where they will be.5
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You wouldn't think it judging by the posts on here!!!!!JamesSeed said:
Easy nla, no need for that tone. Neither would you old boy.nth london addick said:Don’t think any of them take that seriously or you airman and crawley wouldn’t have fuck all to say
Remember, we’re all on the same side ultimately.
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Blimey mate, the tears were starting to well up as I read you post. You may well be bang on the nail here. The Aussies have to either piss or get off the pot; it's all or nothing, the club, the ground and the training ground cannot be separated.GlassHalfFull said:
Laid back, are they, Jim?JamesSeed said:
I think that’ll change. They’re pretty laid back for one thing.GlassHalfFull said:
Only a joint document would have been acceptable to all protagonists. Any fan-friendliness in the original draft has been thoroughly lawyered out in this frigid communication from the parallel universe wherein CAFC is presently marooned, slowly drifting ever more distant from us.JamesSeed said:
It was initially drawn up by a couple of the Aussie consortium, but I expect it was checked and/or modified by the Roland side, but then agreed by all parties (and their lawyers) before release.GlassHalfFull said:
The statement was not meant for the fans. We're just collateral damage. It was drawn up by the lawyers simply to reassure the football industry at large that CAFC is open for business as "normal", and this takeover malarkey is just some little local difficulty, soon to be resolved. Meanwhile the whole weary process continues at glacier speed, to the profound detriment of the club, the rage and frustration of the fans, and the customary enrichment of the briefs. IMHO.
We’ll see how fan friendly they are when they selectmea random fan for the board.
Well, waking up to find this latest alleged scenario - a true Weston - I have a message for Mr Muir and his mates. It's this. Walk away. Now.
Mr M, I like the cut of your jib. It's plain that, putting business to one side, you've found something in CAFC/CACT that appeals. I think the Addicks would suit you very well, and you us. But let's face facts. We're all being played, held to ransom by our feelings for this grand old club. The Owner will never understand that while there's a hole in his arse, except to use our loyalty as leverage for his own foul purposes.
Oh, you can summon up advisers, brokers, middlemen and bankers to fight your corner, but what you need is a real Negotiator. Someone who doesn't give a hoot, except to get a result. That's where you and we go wrong, see, because we all DO care. We care an awful lot. I'll bet that none of your mob has ever had to do business before with someone like you-know-who.
Well, as of now don't feel you need to speak for me. Call it a day. I've got 64 seasons of memories to keep me going. In that time there have been several Charltons but never one like this. Let the Owner wallow in the God-awful mess he's created, the monumental losses he's piled up - and growing every single week, of course - and instead of clearing off at least with your decent offer he'll have to kiss that good money goodbye as well. How d'yer like THEM eggs, Roly boy?
So let him keep The Valley and Sparrows Lane. What are they worth without us? Buttons. I'd rather see The Valley become another Mountsfield Park than continue like this. And give the players (and staff) their freedom, instead of having their careers blighted by this tin-eared despot and his hapless commissar. To matey they're not people, they're just contracts on legs.
So, just let the Owner stew. In the meantime you'll know where to find me and I guess thousands like me - just whistle and we'll be back, ok? Only, don't leave it too long.
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Is everyone seriously getting their knickers in a twist over someone suggesting that there is the option to buy the club minus the training ground & Valley?
It may be true but it doesn't mean the Aussies have to accept the deal!
Calm down people. Jeez.6 -
Well I’ve still got my weekly pot noodle club.O_Andy_Hunt said:
then how will we get to 1000 pages? that's all the excitement we have these days..._MrDick said:Can I make a suggestion ... that everyone chills out, enjoys the World Cup, enjoys the sun, go on holiday and celebrate WIOTOS. There’s absolutely nothing we can do to get this pushed over the line any quicker
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Buying into one of the most wonderful football clubs in the world.Raith_C_Chattonell said:How does Muir raise the extra cash required?
Primarily he's looking for a couple of punters to chuck in about five million quid into the pot. In return for this they get a junior directors role, tickets to every game, the glamour of the English third tier and quite probably all the chips they can eat.
OK I'm being facetious, but it is a genuine question. What is there to sell to additional investors?
And yes, I’m being serious.
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It's good news weekScoham said:
What did they say?Redvalleyeast said:Being reported on BBC breakfast London news this morning
Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky
It's good news week
Someone's found a way to give
The rotting dead a will to live
Go on and never die
Have you heard the news
What did it say?
Who's won that race?
What's the weather like today?
It's good news week
Families shake the need for gold
By stimulating birth control
We're wanting less to eat
It's good news week
Doctors finding many ways
Of wrapping brains on metal trays
To keep us from the heat
It's good news week
Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky
It's good news week
Someone's found a way to give
The rotting dead a will to live
Go on and never die
Have you heard the news
What did it say?
Who's won that race?
What's the weather like today?
What's the weather like today?
It's good news week
Families shake the need for gold
By stimulating birth control
We're wanting less to eat
It's good news week
Doctors finding many ways
Of wrapping brains on metal trays
To keep us from the heat
To keep us from the heat
To keep us from the heat2 -
37 to go.0
