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Post by bingaddick on May 5, 2008 18:02:00 GMT
[quote reddyfreddy My point is that the board know full well that STers won't re-new in same numbers as season now finished so some "carrot" is needed. Sounds to me like the Board are running things very well to the benefit of the club and ultimately it's fans. So if I understand it correctly then, you are annoyed with the Board for running things well? This is nonsense you are ranting on about. The season ticket deal is to encourage the gates to be as high as possible because the club rightly believe that we have a better chance of winning games at home with a fullish house. It is not an empty promise with no hope of being implimented. It is a calculated gamble to offset future income by encouraging as many fans as possible to sign up. It also brings in much needed cash flow/working capital when income streams are much reduced. It actually marks our Board out as excellent and not to be pilliaried by people who think like you. Pardew has made mistakes this year. The Board, as fans, know this well. We are not talking about a bunch of glory hunting cash rich foreigners, or a bunch of self-serving local businessmen hoping to cash in to enhance their own empires. We are talking about fans, who happen to have been successful in business and who have personally invested somewhere around £35 million pounds to re-build our club literally from the ground up. If they decide that Pardew needs more time, then I support their decision. The best we all can do is get off his back, the players backs, the Boards backs and get behind the team next season with perhaps a little more realism than was shown last term. Yes I've got rose tinted spectacles but there's still a great deal to be proud of about our club - the send off for Sir Chris for example, and the farewell to Peter Varney yesterday to name but two, |
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Post by TheRevHansUpskirt on May 5, 2008 18:11:35 GMT
Exactly bing....I would have bought a season ticket one way or another...unlike the 'glass half empty' merchants such as Freddy.
I don't know anymore than anyone else if we'll get promoted next season...but if every fan in the country (let alone us Addicks) felt the same as the unfortunate Freddy then there would be little point in even turning up to watch our respective clubs..... let alone buying a season ticket.
You NEVER know what's around the corner in this life....and being an Addick for 50 odd years certainly prepares one for the unexpected. ....Apart from us selling our best players at key moments that is....in that we seem to have cornered the market!!!!
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Post by reamsofverse on May 5, 2008 18:15:13 GMT
Excellent posting
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Post by valleyviper on May 5, 2008 19:01:51 GMT
Donna, put Reams out of his misery, confess you're LaLa in disguise and then go back to the Supermarket Trolley Park, Club's Board.
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Post by reamsofverse on May 5, 2008 20:58:34 GMT
LaLa? Now why didn't I think of that  and there was me taking my first steps to online dating ;D |
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Post by Brian_Kinsey on May 6, 2008 11:47:21 GMT
reddy...I for one really don't like your well out of order comment that the the board are taking us for mugs and in doing so suggesting that anyone who buys a season ticket is one...you need to think before you say that kind of thing...absolute crap statement and logic. You 'obviously' don't know any of our board members if you're prepared to make a daft unfounded statement like that. Knowing board members is irrelevant!! The issue is offering something that isn't in reality attainable!! If you are fortunate enough to believe in your own naivety that the club will get promoted then by all means renew your ST and live in hope of a free Prem ST. You're just the person they wanted - nothing wrong with that! Promotion may only be possible, it may be unlikely but if it happens there is a bonus for ST holders and that is called an incentive. It is what businesses and supermarkets do all the time to increase revenue - not the revenue of the board, the revenue of the club and I happen to think that is quite a good idea. Do you know that it requires money to run a football club and the board are responsible for getting enough money in? I suppose you never buy a BOGOF bag of sugar because that's what the supermarket wants you to do. If it had been a club like Hull, Bristol City or Stoke making such an offer at the end of last season and you made the same comment you would look a bit silly wouldn't you. This is CHARLTON and you always have hope and if you think the board are out to make money for themselves I suggest you go somewhere else like Chelsea or Man U. |
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Post by TheRevHansUpskirt on May 6, 2008 13:06:34 GMT
Used to live in The Bourne...I was a regular at The Spotted Cow and The Barley Mow in Tilford. Had a horse that I kept at Frensham Manor...spent days on end riding all over the area...especially Frensham. Love the area and may well go back there to live some day. Had a good pal in Churt who was head of A&M records at the time. Had a weekend break at Frensham Ponds Hotel recently...loved it and drove around bringing back lots of old and wonderful memories.  Happy days!! |
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Post by Brian_Kinsey on May 6, 2008 14:47:38 GMT
Yes its not a bad part of the country. We live near not far from where Andy Fernback's Jacobs Studios used to be which you might know if you are in the music business.
Was fishing in Churt yesterday at some trout lakes near Wishanger farm.
Bad news is getting to Charlton. The Charlton express from Andover which I picked up at Farnborough has been axed so not looking forward to 150 mile round trip to the Valley next year.
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Post by TheRevHansUpskirt on May 6, 2008 15:15:37 GMT
Yes, I know Jacobs(is it still a going concern?)...that was out the other side of Farnham ...a turning off to the right a mile or two south of the town if I remember.
I knew a racehorse trainer at Wishanger Farm.....Peter Taylor....quite a character he was!!
Is it really a 150 mile round trip?
Suppose I never really bothered when I was younger...used to visit my family and then over to The Valley from Catford...I'd stay with them or friends localy or go back toFarnham that evening, it largely depended where the most fun was to be had over the weekend.
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Post by CharltonDan on May 6, 2008 15:52:41 GMT
If you are fortunate enough to believe in your own naivety that the club will get promoted then by all means renew your ST and live in hope of a free Prem ST. You're just the person they wanted - nothing wrong with that! [/quote] So are you saying that anyone that renews is only doing it because of the "carrot" thats being dangled? I have already renewed and would have done without this carrot you speak of. The fact that you wrongly assume that we're all "niave" and by implication only renewing because we think we're going to get promoted shows how massively wrong you are about CAFC fans and hence brings into question your own loyalty and motivation to attend matches. And that also goes for the ST holders at every team baring ManU, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool..... |
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Post by Donna on May 6, 2008 16:41:44 GMT
La la indeed! Cheeky fuckers I am an East Stand Block G girl! (Right in the " V " and near Mr Everitt of the Valley Party fame!)
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Post by Brian_Kinsey on May 7, 2008 9:11:08 GMT
Hans
Jacobs Studio closed down a few years ago when the Fernbacks retired to the west country.
Shortest route to Charlton is only about 55 miles but a 2 hour trip through the suburbs. Going round M25 adds I think about another 20 miles but takes around 80 mins. The coach was a real bonus - I hate driving and I hate the M25. Lived in Springfield Grove at top of Church Lane as a kid so could walk to the Valley - those were the days - but I'll not be going back there!!
Will Reams tell us off for cluttering this thread?
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