Raith_C_Chattonell said:Play list for Tuesday. (Sorry not a natural optimist)
06:00 Sun comes up it's Tuesday morning - Cowbow Junkies
09:00 Tuesday morning - The Pogues
10:00 Hooray for Tuesday - The Minders
11:00 Everything's Tuesday - Chairman of the board (Good sign?)
12:00 Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones (no significance here, but I know the words and can sing along).
13:00 Tuesday afternoon - The Moody Blues
14:00 Groovy Tuesday - The Smithereens
19:00 Tuesday Night - Josh Abbot Band.
20:00 Tuesday Heartbreak - Stevie Wonder
23:00 Tuesday's dead - Cat Stevens
00:01 Tuesday's gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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I can't see it being The Aussies who have the deadline until Tuesday having been on the scene for so long.
I can only think Dalman has given RD the Tuesday deadline potentially and if Tuesday passes and Dalman hasn't taken over I assume he will then by staying with Cardiff with a new season to make preparations for hence the deadline given clubs are starting to return to pre season training.
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Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.0 -
MartinCAFC said:I can't see it being The Aussies who have the deadline until Tuesday having been on the scene for so long.
I can only think Dalman has given RD the Tuesday deadline potentially and if Tuesday passes and Dalman hasn't taken over I assume he will then by staying with Cardiff with a new season to make preparations for hence the deadline given clubs are starting to return to pre season training.
Where has this info come from?0 -
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch. I know it's a comment you made in the heat of the moment, but it's ridiculous to suggest that the majority of fans only care about results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
If that were the case - it's not, of course - but, if it were, how many threads would there be on Charlton Life?0 -
Fish, Fish, Fish , Fish, Fishy, Fishy, Fish, Fish.2
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#pastcaringyonksagoMartinCAFC said:I can't see it being The Aussies who have the deadline until Tuesday having been on the scene for so long.
I can only think Dalman has given RD the Tuesday deadline potentially and if Tuesday passes and Dalman hasn't taken over I assume he will then by staying with Cardiff with a new season to make preparations for hence the deadline given clubs are starting to return to pre season training.0 -
Absolute bull****! Look at the missing 5k.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
However, we could have gone down to zero gates and the Belgian would not be influenced, he has too much money.
Oyston only went because of a legal wrangle.
@eaststandmike @LargeAddick boycott due to a principle of not giving this person ANY more money.
We are ALL CHARLTON FANS at the end of the day. We should not be fighting each other.
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That's my point though, the missing 5k aren't all actively boycotting. The ones that come on here and say they are are. Fair play to them. There are also many more that just don't go. If you have a group of friends that are die hard Charlton you probably know some that are boycotting, over the years you have seen others just drift away. League 1 football makes the latter more appealing.ElfsborgAddick said:
Absolute bull****! Look at the missing 5k.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
However, we could have gone down to zero gates and the Belgian would not be influenced, he has too much money.
Oyston only went because of a legal wrangle.
@eaststandmike @LargeAddick boycott due to a principle of not giving this person ANY more money.
We are ALL CHARLTON FANS at the end of the day. We should not be fighting each other.
Your speaking from your bubble mate and I respect your stance. I went to zero home games last season (the first time since 1986), my dad 1 and my brother 1. We had 3 season tickets for nearly 20 years. None of us are boycotting.2 -
We are agreeing with each other basically, that's great. We both want the same thing.Cafc43v3r said:
That's my point though, the missing 5k aren't all actively boycotting. The ones that come on here and say they are are. Fair play to them. There are also many more that just don't go. If you have a group of friends that are die hard Charlton you probably know some that are boycotting, over the years you have seen others just drift away. League 1 football makes the latter more appealing.ElfsborgAddick said:
Absolute bull****! Look at the missing 5k.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
However, we could have gone down to zero gates and the Belgian would not be influenced, he has too much money.
Oyston only went because of a legal wrangle.
@eaststandmike @LargeAddick boycott due to a principle of not giving this person ANY more money.
We are ALL CHARLTON FANS at the end of the day. We should not be fighting each other.
Your speaking from your bubble mate and I respect your stance. I went to zero home games last season (the first time since 1986), my dad 1 and my brother 1. We had 3 season tickets for nearly 20 years. None of us are boycotting.
We could win the Premier League under this person and I'd still not go.
Botcotting/not going, what a dreadful mess.
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You missed some of the best football for years.Cafc43v3r said:
That's my point though, the missing 5k aren't all actively boycotting. The ones that come on here and say they are are. Fair play to them. There are also many more that just don't go. If you have a group of friends that are die hard Charlton you probably know some that are boycotting, over the years you have seen others just drift away. League 1 football makes the latter more appealing.ElfsborgAddick said:
Absolute bull****! Look at the missing 5k.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
However, we could have gone down to zero gates and the Belgian would not be influenced, he has too much money.
Oyston only went because of a legal wrangle.
@eaststandmike @LargeAddick boycott due to a principle of not giving this person ANY more money.
We are ALL CHARLTON FANS at the end of the day. We should not be fighting each other.
Your speaking from your bubble mate and I respect your stance. I went to zero home games last season (the first time since 1986), my dad 1 and my brother 1. We had 3 season tickets for nearly 20 years. None of us are boycotting.2 -
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Don't remember too many boycotting the last time round in League One.Cafc43v3r said:
That's my point though, the missing 5k aren't all actively boycotting. The ones that come on here and say they are are. Fair play to them. There are also many more that just don't go. If you have a group of friends that are die hard Charlton you probably know some that are boycotting, over the years you have seen others just drift away. League 1 football makes the latter more appealing.ElfsborgAddick said:
Absolute bull****! Look at the missing 5k.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
However, we could have gone down to zero gates and the Belgian would not be influenced, he has too much money.
Oyston only went because of a legal wrangle.
@eaststandmike @LargeAddick boycott due to a principle of not giving this person ANY more money.
We are ALL CHARLTON FANS at the end of the day. We should not be fighting each other.
Your speaking from your bubble mate and I respect your stance. I went to zero home games last season (the first time since 1986), my dad 1 and my brother 1. We had 3 season tickets for nearly 20 years. None of us are boycotting.
Don't think the league we are in makes too much difference. It's the lack of ambition and total disregard from the current owner that has driven fans like me to boycott. Other than the play-off games the fans have hardly flooded back when, apparently, the standard of football has been as good as at any time in the last five years. The play-off games have shown that there are many fans itching to return.
You may not realise but in your own way you are boycotting.5 -
Boycotting. Not bothering to go. Finding other things to do. It’s pretty much the same.
Point is, a lot of those not currently going will start going again when Duchatelet is gone, whether or not we are winning. In that respect it wasn’t about results at all.11 -
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How badly are you missing the point?harveys_gardener said:
You missed some of the best football for years.Cafc43v3r said:
That's my point though, the missing 5k aren't all actively boycotting. The ones that come on here and say they are are. Fair play to them. There are also many more that just don't go. If you have a group of friends that are die hard Charlton you probably know some that are boycotting, over the years you have seen others just drift away. League 1 football makes the latter more appealing.ElfsborgAddick said:
Absolute bull****! Look at the missing 5k.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
However, we could have gone down to zero gates and the Belgian would not be influenced, he has too much money.
Oyston only went because of a legal wrangle.
@eaststandmike @LargeAddick boycott due to a principle of not giving this person ANY more money.
We are ALL CHARLTON FANS at the end of the day. We should not be fighting each other.
Your speaking from your bubble mate and I respect your stance. I went to zero home games last season (the first time since 1986), my dad 1 and my brother 1. We had 3 season tickets for nearly 20 years. None of us are boycotting.1 -
It’s not the Aussies deadline on Tuesday.Croydon said:Dalman has been about since long before Wembley. I think initial Cardiff whispers were on here back in January.
If the Aussies deal is 'really close' and it's their deadline on Tuesday, then you may as well fast forward to Wednesday now because they've been 'really close' for over a year.7 -
Well said.ElfsborgAddick said:
Absolute bull****! Look at the missing 5k.Cafc43v3r said:
Yes they do. The fact that 100%, of a sample size of a few thousand, does doesn't mean no one doesn't.Chizz said:
No-one cares ONLY about the results on the pitch.Cafc43v3r said:
Because we were winning. I am not saying you do, or me, or most people on this board, but the MAJORITY of fans only care about results on the pitch.ElfsborgAddick said:PragueAddick said:Ok.. my source is a proper Charlton fan and an investment banker in the region. His role is as intermediary, finding potential buyers, under his professional remit but for minimal fee. He's a fan. He tried to come with a consortium when RD bought, but came too late, Slater turned them away. He has had no contact with Red Bull, AFAIK, they are deffo not his current buyer
@CAFCSayer Interesting that you chucked Kretinsky in! My mate Vincent, who came with me to Wembley, is a mad Sparta fan, who loves to share Kretinsky horror stories and mull over who is worse, The Kretin or the Helmet. Sparta fans have been volubly protesting for ages (@ElfsborgAddick bears witness to that). A few months ago Vincent gleefully shared a Czech rumour that Kretinsky (who has energy sector interests in the UK) was interested to buy an English club and Leeds and Charlton were in the frame.
However my investment banker buddy, a pragmatist, has professional access to both Kretinsky and Petr Kellner, the richest Czech bizman, who currently doesn't own a club, but who was linked as a possible buyer of Chelsea. What he learnt is that both see a football club as a trophy asset, an ice-breaker in discussions about their main businesses. And with the best will of the world, Charlton's current status does not really fit that bill.
Thanks to Vincent I could offer you loads of lurid stories about Kretinsky, some of which show weird parallels with RD. But rest assured, he is not in the frame. The latest, as a taster, is that he is studying for UEFA badges.You can imagine why he thinks he needs them...the en masse walkout I witnessed was spot on, what a feeble apathetic effort for us against Middlesbrough.We could have learnt a lot from these guys.
Roland was a twat we were losing games = protests.
Roland, still a twat, we are winning games = no protests.
Even on this forum there is talk of protests if there is a hint we might loose some games. If we had been bottom after 5 games last season, and all other things had been equal, there would have been protests.
The boycott is no where near as big as people would imagine reading this forum, the fact is a lot have people have better things to do with their time and money than watch better than average league 1 football. If that's not the case why will we sell many more season tickets this season than last?
Remember this is an echo chamber with a few 100 people accounting for about 80% of the posts. Not a representative of, I guess, 50 thousand people that would identify as Charlton fans.
However, we could have gone down to zero gates and the Belgian would not be influenced, he has too much money.
Oyston only went because of a legal wrangle.
@eaststandmike @LargeAddick boycott due to a principle of not giving this person ANY more money.
We are ALL CHARLTON FANS at the end of the day. We should not be fighting each other.2 -
You know it exists and it's not theirs?JamesSeed said:
It’s not the Aussies deadline on Tuesday.Croydon said:Dalman has been about since long before Wembley. I think initial Cardiff whispers were on here back in January.
If the Aussies deal is 'really close' and it's their deadline on Tuesday, then you may as well fast forward to Wednesday now because they've been 'really close' for over a year.1 -
07:00 Tuesday Sunshine - The Questions
Special one for Roland if this all falls apart again...
...See You Next Tuesday - The Nextmen.
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Whatever the doubts are of Rolf Harris and his gang, give it 12months to judge them on.Actions speak louder than words, we certainly have seen this with the Belgian.Me personally, stay in Sydney fellas.0
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Someone's chatting shit then?JamesSeed said:
It’s not the Aussies deadline on Tuesday.Croydon said:Dalman has been about since long before Wembley. I think initial Cardiff whispers were on here back in January.
If the Aussies deal is 'really close' and it's their deadline on Tuesday, then you may as well fast forward to Wednesday now because they've been 'really close' for over a year.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Aussies are some sort of default option for Roland.
He can tout us around for higher and higher bids and when they never get to the extortionate levels he's looking for and he gets fed up he'll give us away to the Aussies.
We're possibly missing out on some real decent investment all the while this Australian mob are skulking around in the background and playing along with this fruit cake.6 -
Reckon Cardiff have given Dalman a deadline and he's passed it onto RD.MartinCAFC said:I can't see it being The Aussies who have the deadline until Tuesday having been on the scene for so long.
I can only think Dalman has given RD the Tuesday deadline potentially and if Tuesday passes and Dalman hasn't taken over I assume he will then by staying with Cardiff with a new season to make preparations for hence the deadline given clubs are starting to return to pre season training.2 -
I think that the Tuesday deadline is for RD or someone will walk , this your right will play into the default option of the Aussiescarly burn said:
Someone's chatting shit then?JamesSeed said:
It’s not the Aussies deadline on Tuesday.Croydon said:Dalman has been about since long before Wembley. I think initial Cardiff whispers were on here back in January.
If the Aussies deal is 'really close' and it's their deadline on Tuesday, then you may as well fast forward to Wednesday now because they've been 'really close' for over a year.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Aussies are some sort of default option for Roland.
He can tout us around for higher and higher bids and when they never get to the extortionate levels he's looking for and he gets fed up he'll give us away to the Aussies.
We're possibly missing out on some real decent investment all the while this Australian mob are skulking around in the background and playing along with this fruit cake.0 -
Yeah that I can subscribe to.i_b_b_o_r_g said:
Reckon Cardiff have given Dalman a deadline and he's passed it onto RD.MartinCAFC said:I can't see it being The Aussies who have the deadline until Tuesday having been on the scene for so long.
I can only think Dalman has given RD the Tuesday deadline potentially and if Tuesday passes and Dalman hasn't taken over I assume he will then by staying with Cardiff with a new season to make preparations for hence the deadline given clubs are starting to return to pre season training.
A couple of posters quoted me which surprised me a little, I was literally putting a theory together based on what we've been told by those in the know. I'm not in the know and this was purely a hunch.
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After all this it will be interesting when/if Murray opens his gob.nth london addick said:
I think that the Tuesday deadline is for RD or someone will walk , this your right will play into the default option of the Aussiescarly burn said:
Someone's chatting shit then?JamesSeed said:
It’s not the Aussies deadline on Tuesday.Croydon said:Dalman has been about since long before Wembley. I think initial Cardiff whispers were on here back in January.
If the Aussies deal is 'really close' and it's their deadline on Tuesday, then you may as well fast forward to Wednesday now because they've been 'really close' for over a year.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Aussies are some sort of default option for Roland.
He can tout us around for higher and higher bids and when they never get to the extortionate levels he's looking for and he gets fed up he'll give us away to the Aussies.
We're possibly missing out on some real decent investment all the while this Australian mob are skulking around in the background and playing along with this fruit cake.0 -
Anyone but these bloody Aussies1
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Except for RD*Mike said:Anyone but these bloody Aussies
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Danny Addick said:
Except for RD*Mike said:Anyone but these bloody Aussies
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What makes you think the Aussies will actually complete the takeover this time? You have been saying for ages that they can't do it - rightly - but you think that we will have new owners for the new season. Has something changed, that you are aware of?nth london addick said:
I think that the Tuesday deadline is for RD or someone will walk , this your right will play into the default option of the Aussiescarly burn said:
Someone's chatting shit then?JamesSeed said:
It’s not the Aussies deadline on Tuesday.Croydon said:Dalman has been about since long before Wembley. I think initial Cardiff whispers were on here back in January.
If the Aussies deal is 'really close' and it's their deadline on Tuesday, then you may as well fast forward to Wednesday now because they've been 'really close' for over a year.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Aussies are some sort of default option for Roland.
He can tout us around for higher and higher bids and when they never get to the extortionate levels he's looking for and he gets fed up he'll give us away to the Aussies.
We're possibly missing out on some real decent investment all the while this Australian mob are skulking around in the background and playing along with this fruit cake.0 -
Not hundred percent sure it exists, but if it does, it’s not theirs.Scoham said:
You know it exists and it's not theirs?JamesSeed said:
It’s not the Aussies deadline on Tuesday.Croydon said:Dalman has been about since long before Wembley. I think initial Cardiff whispers were on here back in January.
If the Aussies deal is 'really close' and it's their deadline on Tuesday, then you may as well fast forward to Wednesday now because they've been 'really close' for over a year.1
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