A campaign was started on Twitter overnight to try and find out who were the three former Directors' (three of the seven who are still owed money by the Club) who agreed that the Belgian filth could retain the Valley as part of the sale and lease it back to the Football Club. These three seem to have completely forgotten about the struggle we had to recover the Valley all those years ago and how important it is to the fans. To allow the Douche to keep the Valley would be a disaster as his only reason for retaining it (long term) would be to redevelop it for housing. The Club selling the Valley should NEVER happen. AllHell
I would guess that the guy who sold that land behind the JS Stand would be one? Whitworth or something like that?
Bob Whitehead ? Is that frizzy haired plonker Derek Chappel one of them ? What a disasterous Chairman he was
If former Directors of the Club are owed money - and have presumably been owed that money for a long time now - do they not have the right to make decisions they feel might offer them the best opportunity to get that money back eventually? I don't know whether all of these people are Charlton fans as well as investors, but they are owed money. I also do not know any of the details of their individual investments, but the fact that seven ex-Directors of Charlton Athletic are owed money and do not know when that money will be payed back to them (if ever) is not something I am proud of as a fan. As a fan of course I don't want to see the Valley retained by any owner and leased back to the Club. But if doing that would have meant the investors who are still owed money would get their money back sooner, I can understand why some of them might have been receptive to that option. What purpose will be served by identifying the three individuals who approved the leasing proposal? To make them targets for more vilification by fans? From what I can see, some of them are already targets for that. And what if it turns out that one or more of the three to be 'outed' are people who have been (until now) regarded in a good light in general by supporters? A twitter 'campaign' (witch-hunt) to identify these people in order to target them for inevitable abuse and possibly worse is nothing to get enthusiastic about or approve of in my view. Put yourself in the position of these people for a moment. If you were owed a substantial amount of money for a long time, should you allow fear of a hostile reaction from an unknown number of anonymous individuals to dissuade you from making a choice which might see the money you are owed returned to you sooner? In my opinion nobody associated with our Club should be subjected to intimidation or targeted for hate.
Not forgetting that the Regime & it’s supporters have subjected our loyal fans to intimidation & hate of course. Trips to the police station, bans from the ground, roughed up by the bully boy stewards. Completely naive thinking there Lardi.
The former directors AGREED to defer repayment of the monies owed to them until we reach the Premiership.
Let’s be honest though, you could probably offer Judas £5m to fvck off, and he wouldn’t take it. You could see that in the pictures of him with Andrew Muir.
Murray must be currently thumbing through his thesaurus, looking for new hyperbolic words to shower the next owner with. He has run short of his own, what with his craven public support of Slater & Jiminez, Kevin Cash, Duchatelet, Meire, Karel Fraeye etc ...
You are getting a bit confused here Lardi, These people loaned the Money to Charlton when we were in the Premiership and they had an expectancy to get it back, you have to question whether the fact that they were all Directors is connected to the loans? Did they loan the money to become Directors of a Premiership Football Club? Did they not know the risks of loaning money to a football club? Didn't the supporter shareholders get their investments wiped out while these people retained the hope of getting their money back? When Murray took full ownership of the Club he wrote off supporter's investments while agreeing to honour his mates debts to be repaid if Charlton ever returns to the Premiership, so who got the best deal there? Will the Belgian filth get all his loans back when he sells the Club? I doubt it? These former Directors are adults they knew the risks but to try to speed up the recovery of their loans by screwing the Club seems pretty low to me and losing control of the Valley would certainly affect the long term viability of Charlton. I will not go too far because I think TC's uncle may be one of the seven
In my opinion nobody associated with our Club should be subjected to intimidation or targeted for hate. The last line from my initial post. Fans of all opinions as well as owners, shareholders or staff (past or present) and their families are all associated with the Club of course. Basically everybody who is anything to do with Charlton Athletic deserves equal consideration in my view, and has equal right not to be singled out for unfair treatment. If unjustifiable methods were used to intimidate some supporters that is just as wrong as a witch-hunt against unpopular ex-directors. But the measures taken against some Charlton supporters by the Club because of things they allegedly said is not the topic of this thread. Intimidation, harassment and threats are not acceptable in my opinion, whoever makes them or whoever they are targeted at. A twitter campaign to identify individuals for making an unpopular decision which will lay those individuals open to the inevitable abuse that will follow serves no purpose. No decision will be reversed because of it, no positive outcome is offered. Only a chance to feed a climate of recrimination and denouncement.
The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese ...... the people who worked with the filth, their time will come
