A quick update before the much-anticpated trip to Lewes:
Credit where credit's due, we at RR Towers are very impressed by Carshalton Athletic's new policy of fan meetings.
Many clubs at our level hold regular meet-the-board evenings and up until this season such events were fairly common at the War Memorial Sports Ground. However, since the ascension of owner Paul Dipre to the post of manager the supporters of Carshalton have had to be content with three "blog" updates and whatever information that can be gleaned from increasingly gnomic comments in the club's matchday programme.
Clearly the club, innovative in so many other ways, was working on a new approach to meeting the supporters and over the past few weeks it has become clear that a series of one to one meetings with the club's owner, conducted post-match at pitch-side, is the way to go.
In fact, I think I may have inadvertently reported the first of these meetings on this very blog http://robinsrepository.blogspot.com/2012/01/you-may-feel-small-prick-bury-town-2-0.html when one of my travelling companions was treated to a half time interview during the defeat at Bury Town.
A few weeks later, after a 0-2 home loss to mighty Discord Rangers, another supporter was beckoned down from the terraces by the owner/manager and given the benefit of his wisdom. Finally, at the most recent home defeat (ninth of the season!) a fan was given the hairdrier treatment complete with interesting vocabulary, details here http://forums.footballwebpages.co.uk/forum.jsp?id=27&article=23905.
Given the club's plummeting home attendances I anticipate that we will all have had an interview by the end of the season. Surely it must be my turn soon.
