Looks like the directors have finally had enough of slick rick and booted him. I must say he had it coming. I can't understand why they tolerated him for so long, the bloke had the personality of a halibut and the charm of a knife fight. Could not keep his gob shut and was starting to believe his own crap as the floyd road messiah. I can't say I was surprised.
I am never happy to see anybody lose their job (except perhaps Pardew and Parkinson) but from his postings on CL it seems he thought himself un-sackable and so was a bit of a loose cannon. Perhaps it is best if he carries on with his political ambitions and the club finds somebody who knows how to keep confidences.
Let us get one thing straight Typical,you do not know why Rick has been sacked.So your comments about him getting booted is both ill considered and presumptuous.He has done more for Charlton than you or anybody else on this forum.He helped in a very profound way to getting Charlton back to the Valley,Valley Express,various ticketing initiatives, the list goes on.What have you done Typical? Apart from posting drivel on second rate football forums.Are you happy with what is going on at the club?The secrecy,the departure of true Charlton people like Peter Varney and if true Rick Everitt.Your pathetic childish snipings are tiresome.I don't know why I am posting this as everything in the Charlton garden is rosy.
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Dick, yes the supporters have a lot to thank Rick for BUT his present actions cannot be glossed over because of his past glories. He will have a confidentiality clause in his contract which will include his postings on fans forums, it does not matter that he may not have been the first to post rumours (on CL) of financial problems at the club .... he did at least one post which suggested that they may be true ..... everybody knows Rick is Airman Brown. What has now been suggested on CL is that a number of staff had disciplinary interviews yesterday (Friday) held by Prothero and Murray, whether this story about Rick's possible departure is linked to this I do not know and we will probably never know. I do not want to get into a discussion on what is a first rate or second rate forum but your insults do your arguements little credit.
I heard there rumours last night. Firstly i am more than graceful for a lot of the work rick has done for our club. There are also things he has done which he shouldn't have done and where actually damaging. Does the good out way the bad, probably. Should the bad have been tolerated for as long as it has been? No it shouldn't. Also lets not make rick out to be some poorly down trodden individual that was the victim of the establishment. He has done quite nicely thank you. Be interested to see what his army of followers have got to say about it.
Didn't airman brown announce on CL that we'd be lucky to make it to Birmingham or that administration was coming or SCP had to be talked out of quitting over the summer? Yes he might well have done a lot for us in the past but only the arrogant live in the past and keep dining off those past achievements. In business you are only as useful or as relevent as your actions speak and his recent actions based on recent months posting on CL or wherever have left him more a hinderance than a help to the club in which case i'm glad he's gone.
He deserved to be sacked. Sorry but i don't care what he did in the past for this club, he threw all of that out of the window when he posted things he knew would be damaging. From a professional point of view you simply do not do that. Should have been sacked immediately and put in his place. The day anyone associated with this club takes the same path and gives out sensitive info for internet kudos is the same day they mean as much to me as Jermaine Defoe
I don't think the supporters have that much to thank the airman for really. What he did in the early days was simply run with a crowd, saw an opening and jumped in, when credit was being handed out he made sure he got it and made sure he was looked after. Ever since he has used his book (a mein kampf ripoff), the VOTV and the flying monkeys on Charlton Life to manipulate his way into nice little posts at the Club. There are many others who got that thing running and did not want or court relationships with the board for their own political ambitions. This is the trouble that Charlton Life have, for years they have this cosy relationship with the board, and now the new board regard them as irratants, parasitical irratants at that and the free lunches and rides have to stop. Now they are getting all prammy and want to start this Fans Execvutive from the beehive of all places, which is quite apt because they are acting like drones, feeding of a queen. How many of us can expect to march into our employers boardrooms and say "right you lot, tell us everything, give us a seat on the board or we will start a revolution to get rid of you." once my boss has stopped laughing he would probably have HR talk to me asking probably if things were ok at home... The airman has had his lord of the flies moment.
My attention was drawn to a post of his a month back about how he and a few others were running the club (in response to a question, not one directed at him). I understand it didn't go down well. The guy was a parasite. It wasn't just Steve that he went after, he was a callous individual at times- bought on by jealousy towards others peoples positions that HE thought wasn't right. I don't mind those that know RE having an opinion of him, but it is the ones who know him from his posts on CL and feel somewhat privileged to have crossed paths with an employee who is as loosed tongued as a stay at home American house wife in a nail shop. He had to go - he put fear in to 80% of the fans with his now famous post. He talked himself up about he had never been in trouble/danger of losing his job and he then basically said he was running it on a day to day basis. He loaded the gun, and TJ/MS/MP pulled the trigger. He thought he was untouchable. Bye, Rick.
What i find very unsettling is not one word of dissention from the Charlton Life. Not one poster questioned his motives, his intention, he was a fraud to me, I saw through him and his intentions years ago and yet the minions on Charlton Life continue to give him Christ-like adoration. They have created almost a obituary to a bloke that wore gola trainers and a cardigan. It honestly concerns me that a forum cannot think away from those that control it. I worry more baout the fans than the board and that lot scare me.
The fact that some blindly follow his words is my biggest gripe. He made some disparaging comments towards fellow employees and some took it as gospel. The fact he, nor others can see the harm in what he has done, concerns me.
He has always been ego lead from way back during the selhurst days he was a major player in the move to get us home but also loved the personal kudos and craved praise and attention we all know Charlton live is crap end of and good riddens to the scaremongerer
I notice some individuals behind the trust are really trying to make the point that this is very bad for the club.
Agree with this. I don't like the tone of some of the posts on here, but I guess understandable as Mary and Typical haven't been quiet before about their previous with Everitt. I've made my opinions fairly clear on the mentioned posts by Everitt on Charlton Life, if anyone wants to find them from the time. I don't think my opinion has changed Understandable that CL in the main feel that the club is making a massive mistake. As far as they're concerned, the main point of contact for the fanbase to the club has been taken away. Add that to the fact that it's the third prominent dismissal in the past few months and people spot a pattern. This in turn fuels the CL-led Trust idea, and naturally the leaders of that organisation will use this as part of their arguments for the value of a Trust. I have read through some of the information about the proposed trust (seeing as I can't really travel to New Eltham for midweek nights) and I'm not entirely convinced about it, but if other people wish to pursue it, that's understandable. What concerns me about the trust is that the last time this was suggested, there were a few meetings, everyone thought the club was going to fold, then Parky led the team to a very good run at the start of the season and the trust died a death. Will this trust idea survive a 10 match unbeaten run or a successful run towards the playoffs? I'm not sure. For a Trust to work, in my opinion, it has to be as good an idea in good times as in bad. If it only exists to mop up the mess or - worse - to whip up hysteria, it will never be properly effective. There are plenty of examples of problematic trusts in this country (think Sheffield Wednesday, where in the end the trust operated against the fans, or Notts County, where the trust sold the club to a non-existent business/person). One thing that may come of this, though. Everitt was, I think, the last paid staff member who had been involved in the Valley Party, Voice of the Valley, etc. Ben Hayes kinda makes this point on the other forum, and I think there's some value to it. So much of the Charlton identity is wrapped up in the Selhurst years and the Back to the Valley campaign, which was run by and for people who were in their 20s and 30s in the 1980s. Any dissenting voice on CL is met with a 'know your history', 'where were you when we were at Selhurst?' style attack (not unlike Dickplumb's contribution). Never forget your history, of course, but if a new generation of club activists come from the group of people who weren't involved in those years, who were too young, then that might be a good thing, and it might breathe new life into the club. Sorry for rambling
