It's is absolutely hilarious and perhaps the most pointless thing I have ever read on Charlton Life seeing the puddle jumpers argue over the Chris Powell exit poll. Razil and 'honest' Henry Irvine are having a pansy fight over the poll results, it's like watching two old queens fighting over a wig. Where do we get these idiots from? Both groups have been told to piss off by the board anyway and now they are turning on each other like rabid gerbils blaming each other for the failures of each group. I pity their wives or civil partners, why do these little Che's feel that anyone actually regards them as anything more than jumped up little twerps with raging halitosis.
Just had a look at that thread you mentioned, Typical. It's embarrassing to say the least - Razil is arguing with fans and talking about ''respect''. A few more situations like that and I honestly think the Trust should do a poll asking the fans opinion of Barnie and whether he should continue in his role. I'll cast my vote now, no.
Ben Hayes and others throw in plenty of snidey barbs too. The thread where they discuss KM's announcement re communication is bizarre. The club states clearly that it does not intend to communicate with the fans until some as-yet-unknown date after the season finished (maybe) and some of them fall over themselves to congratulate the club on its open communication policy!
I'm no fan of Ben Hayes either. But Razil should know better than to start getting emotional over political games. Makes him look weak, and in turn have the same impact on the trust. Well, it's how I see it.
Such juvenile behaviour is embarrassing and does this clubs support no favours. We have now absolutely no say with the clubs directors who quite rightly regard us a rabble of jealous bitter and twisted factions who they can play off each other at their will. Nice job, airman, razil and Ben. I saw this coming years ago. You simply can't have supporters running football clubs, look at Pompey, a lesson in self indulgence and ego massaging that will cost that club it's league status. These pissing contests have got to stop. The valley party is not to be used a tool to wave at the directors, it belongs to no one fan. It belongs to us all and those g21 (I mean-honestly) have now sullied it's name and meaning. As joe Pesci said in casino "you can't trust street guy with something that valuable" particularly to self absorbed, cock knockers, who are about as inspiring as a lolly stick in a dog turd.
To be fair, the same could be said of your comments and this thread. I'm not saying I disagree with you, by the way. I don't really know what the Trust's target is, or what they're about. They keep quoting the number of members/subscribers (I am not sure of the difference), but what did they pay that for, and what does it mean? At one point, they said you had to join the Trust or the Valley would be converted to housing. At another point, they mused that the Trust might buy out the club with everyone's fiver. I think both of these came before the Henry Irving spat kicked off (couple of months ago). Does anyone know how much it costs to be a member? Is it £5 per year? Absolutely, the reaction on there is embarrassing and does the Trust no good. I was just mentioning that it didn't exactly come from nowhere. I can kind-of understand the reaction. If you put a lot of work and your own time into something and the only reaction from some people is always snidey little negative stuff, then you'll be annoyed. If those people then also say that really they're in favour of what you're trying to do, just want it different (but refuse to help), then you get something similar to the personal stuff.
To be fair Henry does talk quite a lot about football, whereas Airperson Brown and Bernie are only concerned with loftier matters.
IA This has been coming for years. The trust have trod on the sacred ground and were using the valley party name, which if you know anything about the characters involved will tell you belong to just one man only, it was his creation, his Frankenstein. He could not wait to bite back. The valley party should never be taken out of its box. It is the holy hand grenade to be used only once, in the most dire of circumstances and now it is a limp lettuce. These people should be throughly ashamed of themselves. Power corrupts, even perceived imagined power and all three should resign from whatever positions they have elected themselves in.
If that one man is the man who happily stayed silent through a summer of uncertainty (because he was mates with the board), who (while a club employee) stated that the club would not complete the 2012-13 season, has allegedly applied for a job under the new owners, and then advocated a season ticket boycott, then I don't really care what he thinks of anything. I'm amazed that there are still quite a few people who don't notice that he has several axes to grind and everything he says should be viewed in that context. I think these numbers are declining at present. As said already, I would like to know what exactly the Trust want to do and where they see themselves on that journey. Nonsense comparisons to Swansea or whatever are great and all, but some clarity would be good.
Razil v Hayes reminds me of Kojak having a tug of war with Matt Lucas....over a comb. For years Hayes visibly revelled in his "insider" status (LOL) as Dicky Murray's official arselicker / spokesman. Since he has lost that role with Sir Dicky being utterly discredited into the bargain, he has suffered the added indignity of seeing another rampant attention seeker - Razil - muscling in on his turf.
I see Richard Murray has just been pulled out of his annual appearance at the Bromley Supporters Club Q&A. A source says that the owners will be making no further public comments before the end of the season. Makes perfect sense. Not only is Dicky's annual "aw, shucks" routine becoming painful to behold, the 100% focus from now should be on supporting the manager and players to stay up. Murray's withdrawal does raise the question of what on earth he is still doing on the Board, as RD has effectively gagged him. Is he really "our connection to the fans", or just sticking around as a reminder that he wants his bunce back?
He's had some of his bunce back last year, which is more than can be said for the small shareholders.
I was bought a share in Charlton Athletic as a birthday present back in 2005. Putting aside the fact that said family member clearly doesnt love me, wheres my money?!
In case you forgot, you (and I) had shares in Charlton Athletic plc. CA plc owned two companies Charlton Athletic Football Company (which owned the players) and Charlton Athletic Holdings (which owned The Valley and the training ground). Tricky Dicky was a majority shareholder in CA plc. There was actually a MBO where the other directors sold their shareholding to Tricky and CA plc then sold both companies to Baton 2010, owned by said Tricky one for a £1 each. Thus no assests left in CA plc and therefore no value so it was wound up. Your money is in Tricky's back pocket.
I have just read that the Anorak Army has come up with a brilliant new plan to embarrass RD at the POTY awards. The idea is to ...wait for it....vote for Yann . RD will then have to present the trophy to an EMPTY CHAIR (quote), causing him huge embarrassment and forcing him to see the error of his ways. Yep, thats right, the bloke who is relaying the pitch, rebuilding the team, rejuvinating the Academy, communicating with the fans.....lets embarrass him. If this drooling, spit flecked idea ever came off, and I was Roly, I would grab the mike at the POTY and reply "you know what, anoraks, **** you, I am taking my money & going". The open mouthed trainspotters could then have a whip round at the next branch meeting of the Bexley Rotary Club to plug the £3m shortfall in our finances this summer. Anyone who votes for Yann as POTY on this pretext should IMO be given a lifetime ban from the Valley.
Lucky there aren't enough of them to have any impact on the voting. They want to vote for a player who jumped ship in the middle of a relegation scrap for more money. OK he said he didn't want to leave, but actions speak louder than words. Even while he was with us he didn't have too many top games this season, after his injury he was poor for about 5 or 6 games before he got match-fit again. Deluded doesn't begin to cover these "fans".
i went with wilson in the end. poyet's the best player but only got a handful of games under the belt
