Charlton confirmed on Tuesday morning that the contract of head coach Iain Dowie had been terminated by the club.
Addicks plc chairman Richard Murray said: "One of the key features of our club during my time as chairman has been stability. It is something I feel is essential in all successful businesses.
"It goes without saying, therefore, how hard it was after only 12 Premiership matches to reach the decision we have."
He added: "Over the past two weeks we have conducted a review of the structure we put in place during the summer which involved all senior football management staff.
"The results of this review have, we believe, left us with little option but to act in the manner we have.
"Crucially we had to consider whether we believed our current situation would improve and we reluctantly came to the conclusion that it would not.
"In the situation we find ourselves in, it is also vital that everyone works as a team. Unfortunately, I have to say that has not been the case.
"By committing some £11.2m on new players in the summer we believe we demonstrated our support for Iain Dowie, as we have also done by backing him with the malicious legal action initiated against him by Simon Jordan."
Murray concluded: "What we need at this time is as little disruption as possible and accordingly the club has promoted Les Reed to head coach and Mark Robson to assistant head coach.
"Both have a solid Charlton pedigree and I am confident they will do everything within their power, together with the players, to turn our season around."
The club will be holding a press conference at the Sparrows Lane training ground, New Eltham, at 1pm.
Charlton confirmed on Tuesday morning that the contract of head coach Iain Dowie had been terminated by the club.
Addicks plc chairman Richard Murray said: "One of the key features of our club during my time as chairman has been stability. It is something I feel is essential in all successful businesses.
"It goes without saying, therefore, how hard it was after only 12 Premiership matches to reach the decision we have."
He added: "Over the past two weeks we have conducted a review of the structure we put in place during the summer which involved all senior football management staff.
"The results of this review have, we believe, left us with little option but to act in the manner we have.
"Crucially we had to consider whether we believed our current situation would improve and we reluctantly came to the conclusion that it would not.
"In the situation we find ourselves in, it is also vital that everyone works as a team. Unfortunately, I have to say that has not been the case.
"By committing some £11.2m on new players in the summer we believe we demonstrated our support for Iain Dowie, as we have also done by backing him with the malicious legal action initiated against him by Simon Jordan."
Murray concluded: "What we need at this time is as little disruption as possible and accordingly the club has promoted Les Reed to head coach and Mark Robson to assistant head coach.
"Both have a solid Charlton pedigree and I am confident they will do everything within their power, together with the players, to turn our season around."
The club will be holding a press conference at the Sparrows Lane training ground, New Eltham, at 1pm.
Charlton confirmed on Tuesday morning that the contract of head coach Iain Dowie had been terminated by the club.
Addicks plc chairman Richard Murray said: "One of the key features of our club during my time as chairman has been stability. It is something I feel is essential in all successful businesses.
"It goes without saying, therefore, how hard it was after only 12 Premiership matches to reach the decision we have."
He added: "Over the past two weeks we have conducted a review of the structure we put in place during the summer which involved all senior football management staff.
"The results of this review have, we believe, left us with little option but to act in the manner we have.
"Crucially we had to consider whether we believed our current situation would improve and we reluctantly came to the conclusion that it would not.
"In the situation we find ourselves in, it is also vital that everyone works as a team. Unfortunately, I have to say that has not been the case.
"By committing some £11.2m on new players in the summer we believe we demonstrated our support for Iain Dowie, as we have also done by backing him with the malicious legal action initiated against him by Simon Jordan."
Murray concluded: "What we need at this time is as little disruption as possible and accordingly the club has promoted Les Reed to head coach and Mark Robson to assistant head coach.
"Both have a solid Charlton pedigree and I am confident they will do everything within their power, together with the players, to turn our season around."
The club will be holding a press conference at the Sparrows Lane training ground, New Eltham, at 1pm.
Wow how times have changed... We used to have actual Press Conferences
If only it had been decided in January 2006 that Curbs would leave then it would have left longer.
ID had commited a gross act of misconduct. Several acts of gross misconduct.
At the time looking at how ID had taken palarse from relegation dogfighters to play-off winners in the same season or any team for that matter seemed quite attractive at the time. But I had my niggling doubts.
I had doubts about Dowie because palarse had been relegated from the premiership, despite having a striker who hit 21 goals that season.
One of the main reasons newly promoted teams tend to struggle seems to be because they can't score enough and can't afford anyone who can, yet the nigels had a player who could and still failed.
That suggested to me that Dowie did not have the nous to cope at the highest level. Obviously easy to say in hindsight, but there you go.
Worse manager since I've supported club absolutely no idea what he was. Doing. Even got lost going for a jog.how he is on sky sports still od sooner look at shit all day which is what he made us do with some of those signings. Absolute #*****
Still think if he had stayed we would have got out of it eventually.
We would have had more of a chance at least but he should never have been appointed in the first place considering some of the managers we could have had. The worst decision in the last 30 years at this club, and it cost us everything.
Worst decision we made. If we stuck with dowie we might still be in the prem now.
While we shouldn't have appointed him in the first place, we certainly should not have sacked him. (People quoting gross misconduct, I've been asking for 9 years now what this was, and there is still no definitive answer. Surely those 'IN THE KNOW' can now reveal - use the word allegedly if necessary!)
Dowie did understand some of our players, where they should play, they took to him by all accounts. Reed was hopeless as a manager, the squad despised him, and refused to play for him. Even nice-guy Captain Clean-Shorts said 'No comment' when asked if Reed had the support of the players.
Appointed a bit sooner and Pardew could have kept us up, which just goes to show what damage the Reed debacle did.
The best bit was people honestly thought curbs had taken us as far as he could,
Not that this was why he left but it's insane to think that if curbs never left that year we more than likely would not be where we are now, And Rd probably wouldn't own us
In my opinion he had got us as far as he could , probably as far as anyone could.
Darren Bents old man knew a friend of a friend and most of the players had the hump with the decision and supported Dowie and didn't like the way Les Reed "had stabbed him in the back" Sounds about right with the subsequent wankness that followed
The fact that Murray chose Dowies coaching staff for him rather than let him bring his own said enough for me about Murray and he turned down Curbs offer of help to find his successor ..... Ridiculous
Alan C left as he needed to strengthen the team. He did not want much but it was refused. Dowie allowed Murray to dig at Palace. Dowies signings were awful ( when the best centre half in the world that no one had heard of turns up in August wearing gloves, I think that says it all) Dowie wasted over three times what Curbs wanted. But all that's history. What matters now is RD and KM out.
Darren Bents old man knew a friend of a friend and most of the players had the hump with the decision and supported Dowie and didn't like the way Les Reed "had stabbed him in the back" Sounds about right with the subsequent wankness that followed
The fact that Murray chose Dowies coaching staff for him rather than let him bring his own said enough for me about Murray and he turned down Curbs offer of help to find his successor ..... Ridiculous
Didn't Dowie bring Woodman the goalie coach in? And the Australian (ex-Rugby League) fitness coach?
I thought at the time that the only reason for the appointment was to get one over on Palace. Nine years on and I've never seen or heard anything to persuade me otherwise. Well, that worked well didn't it.
Always thought the criticism of Diawara was over the top. He wasn't a bad player which he's proved since. We had a lot worse in that defence alone. Djimi Traore springs to mind.
While Dowie was a wrong appointment, allowing him to bring him in so many players, then sacking him so quickly was ridiculous. Those were his signings, imagine how they'd feel if the guy who signed them is dumped like that. Les Reed has showed his worth as a coach previously, and is doing a fine job at Southampton now as a technical director, but was a hopeless manager...
One of the strange things that happened with Dowie was prior to the (final) Wigan game (November 11th) where he apparently got the team coach to drop him off at his house in Bolton on the Friday and left Les Reed, who felt he had not allowed to do his job in training, in charge of the squad until the next afternoon. Coupled with his brother appearing in the dressing room at Chesterfield (Nov 7th) and the Newcastle walk incident(October 28th/29th), there was a feeling, rightly or wrongly, that he was taking the piss and may have been trying to encourage the club to sack him (with compensation). Whether that's true or not, it was about more than results.
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Addicks plc chairman Richard Murray said: "One of the key features of our club during my time as chairman has been stability. It is something I feel is essential in all successful businesses.
"It goes without saying, therefore, how hard it was after only 12 Premiership matches to reach the decision we have."
He added: "Over the past two weeks we have conducted a review of the structure we put in place during the summer which involved all senior football management staff.
"The results of this review have, we believe, left us with little option but to act in the manner we have.
"Crucially we had to consider whether we believed our current situation would improve and we reluctantly came to the conclusion that it would not.
"In the situation we find ourselves in, it is also vital that everyone works as a team. Unfortunately, I have to say that has not been the case.
"By committing some £11.2m on new players in the summer we believe we demonstrated our support for Iain Dowie, as we have also done by backing him with the malicious legal action initiated against him by Simon Jordan."
Murray concluded: "What we need at this time is as little disruption as possible and accordingly the club has promoted Les Reed to head coach and Mark Robson to assistant head coach.
"Both have a solid Charlton pedigree and I am confident they will do everything within their power, together with the players, to turn our season around."
The club will be holding a press conference at the Sparrows Lane training ground, New Eltham, at 1pm.
Dowie did not have any relative enough success and experience to help take charlton forward, it was utter suicide.
Like spending years building a big castle, then the same person just suddenly blowing it up.
Something like:
Doing it for charlton (eh you alrite mate?!) 70:30 getting one over Jordan
One of the main reasons newly promoted teams tend to struggle seems to be because they can't score enough and can't afford anyone who can, yet the nigels had a player who could and still failed.
That suggested to me that Dowie did not have the nous to cope at the highest level. Obviously easy to say in hindsight, but there you go.
Dowie did understand some of our players, where they should play, they took to him by all accounts. Reed was hopeless as a manager, the squad despised him, and refused to play for him. Even nice-guy Captain Clean-Shorts said 'No comment' when asked if Reed had the support of the players.
Appointed a bit sooner and Pardew could have kept us up, which just goes to show what damage the Reed debacle did.
What an unnecessary disaster.
Sounds about right with the subsequent wankness that followed
The fact that Murray chose Dowies coaching staff for him rather than let him bring his own said enough for me about Murray and he turned down Curbs offer of help to find his successor ..... Ridiculous
Dowie wasted over three times what Curbs wanted.
But all that's history.
What matters now is RD and KM out.
Faye
A Reid
Diawara
Carson (Season Loan)
Hasselbaink
Gibbs?
Les Reed has showed his worth as a coach previously, and is doing a fine job at Southampton now as a technical director, but was a hopeless manager...