Off Topic Methven connected to Charlton

Charlie not able to afford new trousers yet.
As an aside, do you have a fans liaison officer that could deal with certain things?

 

Yes, Chris Waters. Best in the business.

 

Poor lad is completely overworked and it's blunting his ability to do what he does best. At the very least, he needs an admin team underneath him to manage all the emails/messages etc
He could do a lot more with this club, but they don't seem to want to help him

 

Agreed, he needs to head up a team of half a dozen or so.

 

I said those exact words to him earlier in the season and he just laughed and said "I know!"

 

Especially when he gets bombarded about Wembley tickets in a few weeks

 

Have you forgotten they bought us with our own money?

 

They bought the club using a fair bit of the club's money.

All they did was slash things. Anyone can do that. The hard bit is to skilfully re shape a business while retaining the core and keep it running properly. They had neither the money, skill or interest to do that. They completely gutted the club, sold excellent young players for pennies (and would have sold others), let the infrastructure corrode and probably drove the club near to going bust.

Those two have no redeeming features at all IMO. It felt as if we had escaped from being kidnapped and held in a dark wet, underground cell when their rancourous reign ended. Horrible chancers the two of them.

 

Just like Donald's daughter nearly was??

 

The flip side to that is Ellis short wiped out 100s millions of debt owed to him. So essentially we became debt free by using 20million of our parachute payment.

Do I think it was snidey the way they done it? Yes. But it did make us more attractive to potentially better owners.

 

I dont believe he offered that deal to everyone and was just happy to dump us on the 2 chancers, I think Gordon Armstrong was linked to a consortium and alluded to it at the time, the tall Texan just surrendered, pity he forgot about The Alamo

 

Criminal a club of your size being in the doldrums for so long, one constant when looking at other similar sized clubs is bad ownership.

 

Everton could be next

 

thing is, there are many that would welcome a 'euro super league' as long as it meant they are kept well away from domestic competitions but the problem is that they want it all.

we might then see a fairer league system, hopefully without the over-dramatised reactions to fouling, and get back to watching lads play football again...every club welcomes rich owners but it does not always work out as they wish.

 

Well it shows you the level of interest in us at that time, not a lot.

 

They have struggled for years.
Remember Graham Stuart and a very late goal against Wimbledon?

 

One of the biggest fixes in the English game ...

... Wimbledon, and particularly the keeper, we're investigated but nothing was done.

 

More than just the 2 chances who he sold out to

 

Remember that, stood out a mile as fixed. I suppose Everton could have been innocent, more likely Wimbledon doing some dodgy bets.