I dont think its the lowest point, I think it is the most frustrating point, the old hands who have been supporting CAFC for decades have seen worse, I remember we played York City and there were less than 5k there, but we came back from that and the Selhurst exile to be a good Prem team for nearly a decade. I think it is frustrating because the Rat can afford to lose money and just does not care what happens results wise, so as fans we are at our wits end, we want to support our club as we always have done, but we have the experience to know that we have to administer some tough love, protests, boycotting etc. Its like if you have kids, you (mostly) support them no matter what, but if they go of the rails too far, then you have to go the tough love route. Not that my kids have ever been trouble........well except one, he's a tit. ;o)
Tonight is a new low. Not just in league position but in performance. I just want the season to finish and for us not to get relegated. Then? The mother of rebuilding jobs!
They're starting work on the training ground at last? @Swisdom
Tonight is a new low. Not just in league position but in performance. I just want the season to finish and for us not to get relegated. Then? The mother of rebuilding jobs!
They're starting work on the training ground at last? @Swisdom
God knows. We've had more false dawns than the England football team down there!
Tonight is a new low. Not just in league position but in performance. I just want the season to finish and for us not to get relegated. Then? The mother of rebuilding jobs!
They're starting work on the training ground at last? @Swisdom
God knows. We've had more false dawns than the England football team down there!
KM said last night they'd "started work" on phase three.
I mention this because the training ground is, for me at least, a bell weather for the club's intentions. While that sits and little or no work is done then the club has no plans to move forward.
That plus everything that has been said above tells me that the club is now in a nightmarish limbo with no attempt to move forward or improve, just to somehow survive until Duchatelet sells or by luck Meire finds a competent manager who is given the right backing (which she never will).
Even in the 70s or at Selhurst there was a desire to improve, the aim was to get promoted or get back home. Now there is nothing.
Robinson is a joke appointment but he is a symptom of the problem not the problem itself, that is Duchatelet and his talentless acolytes
I really don’t know what to make of yesterday. I’ve only been to The Valley twice this season, and went along to pay tribute to a man that I didn’t know but had probably shared a lot of experiences with over the years. I stood outside the ground prior to going in, but it didn’t feel like Home anymore. The tribute paid to Keith was tastefully done, standing in a large gathering in total silence sends shivers down my spine. What followed was a total shambles, no co-ordination, seemed tittle coaching, lethargy and lots of square pegs in round holes. The thing that summed it up for me was when the ball went out of play and Robinson tried and failed to catch it, like some bloke walking past a football pitch in the park with his dog. That and the “Song for Sue” wife of the club secretary, and in all honesty she probably deserved it. But I couldn’t get over the fact that no matter what shit I was witnessing in front of me, I wasn’t a little girl of five years old, whose Dad went to work a couple of weeks ago and didn’t come home. Roland, Meire, Robinson just fuck off and make me care again.
It's hard to believe this is the same Charlton Athletic I have supported for 35 years, even during the exile there was spirit, even during the dark days when returning to The Valley was still a dream- something still made this club special. It made the achievement of coming home and then Premier League football all the sweeter. Even dropping through the leagues with little or no money a few years back everything still felt like Charlton, at least the heart was still beating. Since 2014 bit by bit pretty much everything great about this club has been dismantled and eroded by two people who seem to enjoy the misery they are causing and continue to cause. Like others each defeat just leaves me numb, each disaster is predictable and preventable but happens with depressing inevitability anyway. It's almost as if the owner is a plant who is carrying out a systematic destruction of the club and has to do it within a set time frame. To be in League One is a depressing thing but to be struggling poorly in it is totally unacceptable. The owners aren't fit to run this club, the manager is not good enough to manage this club and most of the "players" are most definitely not fit to wear the shirt. Depressing doesn't even come close to describing this version of Charlton Athletic.
Blackpool away 1972 relegated and getting nicked up there. Leaving the valley. Lower point. Lowest point is a pair of Belgian testicles where I'd like to put my size nine.
Tonight is a new low. Not just in league position but in performance. I just want the season to finish and for us not to get relegated. Then? The mother of rebuilding jobs!
They're starting work on the training ground at last? @Swisdom
God knows. We've had more false dawns than the England football team down there!
KM said last night they'd "started work" on phase three.
I mention this because the training ground is, for me at least, a bell weather for the club's intentions. While that sits and little or no work is done then the club has no plans to move forward.
That plus everything that has been said above tells me that the club is now in a nightmarish limbo with no attempt to move forward or improve, just to somehow survive until Duchatelet sells or by luck Meire finds a competent manager who is given the right backing (which she never will).
Even in the 70s or at Selhurst there was a desire to improve, the aim was to get promoted or get back home. Now there is nothing.
Robinson is a joke appointment but he is a symptom of the problem not the problem itself, that is Duchatelet and his talentless acolytes
Being a football fan of a club like Charlton is a life sentence of mainly disappointment but dotted with huge elation.
That's how it's been for me for 56 years. Regardless of those disappointments and dire times I've always felt proud and honoured to be an Addick. I always felt that regardless of how shit we were at any one point the future was going to be better and that the intention was for the club to progress. It felt like I belonged to a CLUB. All pulling together in the general direction of upwards.
That feeling has largely gone. I still attend although not every game now and still always want the lads to win.
What's gone is the tingle at walking out into The Valley and seeing the green pitch. Having my evening spoiled by a bad result. The feeling of belonging to the club and the feeling of us all pulling in one direction.
That for me is what supporting Charlton has always been. At age 61 it has gone a long way to define who I am.
Tonight is a new low. Not just in league position but in performance. I just want the season to finish and for us not to get relegated. Then? The mother of rebuilding jobs!
They're starting work on the training ground at last? @Swisdom
I'd be happy if Robinson and the players actually started doing a bit of training, as there's precious little evidence of that on the pitch...
Tonight is a new low. Not just in league position but in performance. I just want the season to finish and for us not to get relegated. Then? The mother of rebuilding jobs!
They're starting work on the training ground at last? @Swisdom
I'd be happy if Robinson and the players actually started doing a bit of training, as there's precious little evidence of that on the pitch...
I can't imagine Robinson sprinting around with the squad ...
Statistically almost certainly will prove to be the worst season since 1926 even if we manage to stay up so in that narrow sense yes close to worse ever.
71-72, 73-74, 79-80, 2008-09, 2010-11 all poor seasons in terms of the spectacle (or lack thereof) on the pitch just as this year. The difference from now is that in those earlier years there was a rational reason or an obvious period of transition to explain it allowing hope for the future.
When we left The Valley to go to Selhurst the intention to try and get back came into the public domain relatively quickly which allowed the hope that the nightmare was only temporary. I wasn't alive in the twenties but I suspect the move to The Mount in Catford engendered similar feelings given that The Valley remained available.
The difference now, from my individual perspective anyway, is that I see little hope for the future. If Duchatelet stays then the inevitable downward spiral through the divisions and out of the league continues.
If he leaves and Red Bull are the purchasers then we will almost certainly leave The Valley for the Peninsular. For me The Valley IS Charlton so given the two scenarios I've mentioned yes it is the lowest point in my opinion since 1963 when I started supporting the Club.
Most frustrating thing for me is that this is all so unnecessary! The club lost ~£13m last year, which RD has presumably had to cover, albeit in the form of loans. Add that to the initial purchase price of the club, investment since then, losses in previous years and it's a massive sum of money. Just imagine what could have been done if even a quarter of that amount had been properly invested back in 2014/15 with the addition of some quality players and by either keeping faith with SCP or bringing in another manager with a proven record in English football, supporting him financially and letting him get on with the football without interference. I genuinely believe that if that had happened we would at the very least be vying for promotion from the Championship instead of fighting to avoid the drop from League fucking One!
I am so bloody angry at this needless destruction of our club! RD has not had a single penny from me this season and that will continue for as long as he is the owner of this club.
Lowest point ever? Yes, hard to argue with that. But with the snowballing momentum ever downwards, this is just the lowest point yet. 4:50pm this coming Saturday will be the next new low, after Southend roll us over and put clear daylight between them and the spanners in the race for the playoffs. "Good" Friday 4:50pm as Coventry avoid defeat... You see where this is all going? Finishing no lower than 20th is dependent now on the fallibility and inconsistency of the 6 teams from Bury to Swindon inclusive. This disheartened, poorly led rabble of crocks, misfits, charlatans and kids won't muster anything in the 5 remaining games. Their spirit, courage, and integrity were all clearly exposed last night. With "you're not fit to wear the shirt" still ringing in their ears, one or two will redouble their efforts but that effort will be absorbed and nullified by the withering amoeba the squad has become. Ever lower lows attained by ever lower forms of life.
I find myself getting increasingly angry and wound up reading all these and just thinking about last night. I'm having to exercise some real self restraint in typing this as we speak. It's really hard not to let rip in a torrent of abuse
I find myself getting increasingly angry and wound up reading all these and just thinking about last night. I'm having to exercise some real self restraint in typing this as we speak. It's really hard not to let rip in a torrent of abuse
The good news for you tibbs is that Sue Parkes has deflected the name calling away from yourself...................every cloud
Yep, lowest point in forty years for me. Unfortunately, just the lowest in a long line of Duchatelet and Meire lows. What we know is that there will be another one along soon. Lowest league finish since Division Three South. That's if they don't manage to top it with relegation. Please, please, anyone, please buy the club. Nothing could be worse than what these hopeless Belgians have foisted on us. We should be considering a monument to their incompetence to stand as a warning to all for the future.
The experiment has failed, RD needs to cut his losses and get the hell out. If Charlton are such a small part of his empire, why doesn't he just sell the club, why would he want the hassle of protests and bad PR that owning Charlton brings him?.I think he is looking to sell, but is waiting for the best offer, that's why the club feels like a zombie ATM.
Loved hearing that played for us at Wembley. I know it's a cheesey promotion track, but when you're the winners it feels so good. Get goosebumps when i recall that day. Get the FECK OUT of our club Roland. Those days seem so far away no thanks to you.
Statistically almost certainly will prove to be the worst season since 1926 even if we manage to stay up so in that narrow sense yes close to worse ever.
71-72, 73-74, 79-80, 2008-09, 2010-11 all poor seasons in terms of the spectacle (or lack thereof) on the pitch just as this year. The difference from now is that in those earlier years there was a rational reason or an obvious period of transition to explain it allowing hope for the future.
When we left The Valley to go to Selhurst the intention to try and get back came into the public domain relatively quickly which allowed the hope that the nightmare was only temporary. I wasn't alive in the twenties but I suspect the move to The Mount in Catford engendered similar feelings given that The Valley remained available.
The difference now, from my individual perspective anyway, is that I see little hope for the future. If Duchatelet stays then the inevitable downward spiral through the divisions and out of the league continues.
If he leaves and Red Bull are the purchasers then we will almost certainly leave The Valley for the Peninsular. For me The Valley IS Charlton so given the two scenarios I've mentioned yes it is the lowest point in my opinion since 1963 when I started supporting the Club.
There is certainly no rational reason for the dismal run of form now - our squad today, whatever gripes we have about a few individuals, is better than 2010-2011.
I find myself simply absolutely not caring about our results. Whether we win lose or draw, either way I just don't give a f*ck. Roland's dismantling of something rather special. Actually genuienly quite a hard achievement that. Not many people could do it. It's hard to imagine it was done by accident but who knows. Bet it plays nicely into his ego. Never thought I'd feel this way about my charlton. Some nob from Belgium has changed this. Who'd have thought he had the power to do that? Bizarre. Dreadful. Scary. Shocking.
The reasons why I want charlton to do well every match, has simply just faded. I can't explain it. It doesn't make me sad or angry. It's something that's just simply vanished. Even when Roland eventually packs up and takes every idiot with him. I'm worried I still won't be as bothered about charlton as I once was. I fear it's not a light switch situation. I think it's a possible permanent scar. Very much hope I'm wrong. I'm probably wrong. Hard to tell at this point though.
When Chris Powell was manager...which wasn't really so long ago. That's it. Every Saturday was something to look forward to. It was football day.
It's not just that Chris Powell was the manager. It's because we were a relatable competitive respectable deeply emotionally valued football club that I grew up supporting. Feeling very lucky they were my local team. I simply couldn't support anyone else.
Wasn't always great, don't want to paint an over the top inaccurate picture...you can't expect it to be, but my heart was in it. It was 2nd nature. I didn't even think about it. The 2nd season in the championship under Powell. We took a hit. The squad didn't get reasonable investment as the money wasn't available anymore. My enthusiasm burned a tiny bit at that stage. Just a bit. It was a bump though. You experience those. Then you come back. It just felt a bit flat. We didn't build on the achievement of the previous season. We were losing and we wasn't putting them away. The football was poor. It was frustrating. Probably exactly the feeling of what the dressing room was like. (Early winter 2013 I'm talking about) It was disappointing to witness. We were very thin.
However, charlton was still charlton. Still loved the club. I never thought about my reasons for loving charlton in an objective sense. No need.
I would care more now if we were in a potential promotion push, but still, the feeling is not present.....Whatever situation we are in. It's just based on a hopeful outcome that Roland will sell. Whether we go up or stay put. Back in the day, even if mid table and going no where, I'd still be intensely desperate for charlton to succeed and get 3 points, whoever we were up against, let alone some joke club like MK Dons....at home!! Embarrassing.
Maybe it's me. Maybe things just change and some things just don't seem as interesting as they once did. The world has changed. For better or worse.
Not my club anymore though. I think it's partly to do with the way football in general is these days. Only very slightly though. Football has just taken a back seat. More of a business and too much money involved. Inevitably it means people care less. They have other things on their mind. £££. Players, agents, managers, pundits etc etc. It's got stuck up its own arse. It should mostly just be about the game. Sadly, Every year, it now just feels less and less like its a passionate competitive sport that people love playing and watching. Maybe that's just crap based on a crappy picture I've painted in my head.
Charlton Athletic is currently a huge huge victim of that mentality. Via our owner. I wanted a win last night. Mostly because I wanted the players to give the passionate performance that the particular rather sad emotional night deserved.
I don't want us relegated. I don't want that because I think signs are pointing to a conclusion that Roland is going to sell soon.
League 2 will be so far from where we need to be.
It will be a tragedy and everyone's head will just completely drop.
I very much doubt we would escape league 2 for quite some time, just due to the depressed mentality of everyone involved with charlton Athletic. It would be f*cked. Just pride, deteriorated.
It would be dreadful.
There is hope. A tiny bit of hope.
Just stay up and we shall see.
Keep protesting against Roland. Keep calling sue a twat.
For me, currently. My version of what the old 3 points felt like, would equate to comically watching Roland slip on a banana skin then falls into a huge pile of horse manure which is caught on video. The charlton fans present collectively say Whey! Roland evidently goes mad.
I don't actually wish anything seriously bad to happen to the old fool. I pity a character like that.
Owners like RD that do not care about the club are quite happy to have useless corporate administrators like KM ( under any other circumstances she would have been dismissed years ago) There is a fact that goes with this abuse of a club. Hopeless management leads to failure on the pitch. RD and KM have no cares for Charlton and especially the supporters. But they could have built a successful team,and still despised the supporters- they have not. Look at the real failures - Coventry, Blackburn, Leyton Orient, Charlton owners that do not care equals football failure. What do they care about?
Lowest point yet, but lower yet to come. Extrapolating clubs' form, over their last 10 matches, forward to their remaining 5/6 games gives us this final points table:
currently there is a 16 goal difference buffer to Swindon but that will inevitably contract
Recent form can only be a guide but this should be keeping all concerned awake for the rest of the month Based on Tuesday's abomination I can't see where gobby's Charlton will find another point, let alone 3. Even with redoubled cohesion and effort we'll still be struggling. We have to play Southend, Gills, Swindon and Chesterfield for whom the games are crucial. In truth Charlton's fate was never in gobby's hands cos the clumsy halfwit discarded it months back, but it is very much now in the players' hands. It's a very feint hope but maybe there are enough players for whom avoiding the ignominy of relegation is a big enough motivating force for them to get their collective heads out of their superannuated arseholes to perhaps avoid defeat 4 times out of 5. Keep smilin one and all, it will be over soon enough
I find myself getting increasingly angry and wound up reading all these and just thinking about last night. I'm having to exercise some real self restraint in typing this as we speak. It's really hard not to let rip in a torrent of abuse
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I think it is frustrating because the Rat can afford to lose money and just does not care what happens results wise, so as fans we are at our wits end, we want to support our club as we always have done, but we have the experience to know that we have to administer some tough love, protests, boycotting etc.
Its like if you have kids, you (mostly) support them no matter what, but if they go of the rails too far, then you have to go the tough love route. Not that my kids have ever been trouble........well except one, he's a tit. ;o)
I mention this because the training ground is, for me at least, a bell weather for the club's intentions. While that sits and little or no work is done then the club has no plans to move forward.
That plus everything that has been said above tells me that the club is now in a nightmarish limbo with no attempt to move forward or improve, just to somehow survive until Duchatelet sells or by luck Meire finds a competent manager who is given the right backing (which she never will).
Even in the 70s or at Selhurst there was a desire to improve, the aim was to get promoted or get back home. Now there is nothing.
Robinson is a joke appointment but he is a symptom of the problem not the problem itself, that is Duchatelet and his talentless acolytes
The tribute paid to Keith was tastefully done, standing in a large gathering in total silence sends shivers down my spine.
What followed was a total shambles, no co-ordination, seemed tittle coaching, lethargy and lots of square pegs in round holes. The thing that summed it up for me was when the ball went out of play and Robinson tried and failed to catch it, like some bloke walking past a football pitch in the park with his dog. That and the “Song for Sue” wife of the club secretary, and in all honesty she probably deserved it.
But I couldn’t get over the fact that no matter what shit I was witnessing in front of me, I wasn’t a little girl of five years old, whose Dad went to work a couple of weeks ago and didn’t come home.
Roland, Meire, Robinson just fuck off and make me care again.
Even dropping through the leagues with little or no money a few years back everything still felt like Charlton, at least the heart was still beating.
Since 2014 bit by bit pretty much everything great about this club has been dismantled and eroded by two people who seem to enjoy the misery they are causing and continue to cause. Like others each defeat just leaves me numb, each disaster is predictable and preventable but happens with depressing inevitability anyway.
It's almost as if the owner is a plant who is carrying out a systematic destruction of the club and has to do it within a set time frame. To be in League One is a depressing thing but to be struggling poorly in it is totally unacceptable. The owners aren't fit to run this club, the manager is not good enough to manage this club and most of the "players" are most definitely not fit to wear the shirt.
Depressing doesn't even come close to describing this version of Charlton Athletic.
Leaving the valley. Lower point.
Lowest point is a pair of Belgian testicles where I'd like to put my size nine.
Once RD has gone I will return, but absolutely not before then.
That's how it's been for me for 56 years. Regardless of those disappointments and dire times I've always felt proud and honoured to be an Addick. I always felt that regardless of how shit we were at any one point the future was going to be better and that the intention was for the club to progress. It felt like I belonged to a CLUB. All pulling together in the general direction of upwards.
That feeling has largely gone. I still attend although not every game now and still always want the lads to win.
What's gone is the tingle at walking out into The Valley and seeing the green pitch. Having my evening spoiled by a bad result. The feeling of belonging to the club and the feeling of us all pulling in one direction.
That for me is what supporting Charlton has always been. At age 61 it has gone a long way to define who I am.
Please sell Roland.
71-72, 73-74, 79-80, 2008-09, 2010-11 all poor seasons in terms of the spectacle (or lack thereof) on the pitch just as this year. The difference from now is that in those earlier years there was a rational reason or an obvious period of transition to explain it allowing hope for the future.
When we left The Valley to go to Selhurst the intention to try and get back came into the public domain relatively quickly which allowed the hope that the nightmare was only temporary. I wasn't alive in the twenties but I suspect the move to The Mount in Catford engendered similar feelings given that The Valley remained available.
The difference now, from my individual perspective anyway, is that I see little hope for the future. If Duchatelet stays then the inevitable downward spiral through the divisions and out of the league continues.
If he leaves and Red Bull are the purchasers then we will almost certainly leave The Valley for the Peninsular. For me The Valley IS Charlton so given the two scenarios I've mentioned yes it is the lowest point in my opinion since 1963 when I started supporting the Club.
I am so bloody angry at this needless destruction of our club! RD has not had a single penny from me this season and that will continue for as long as he is the owner of this club.
Yes, hard to argue with that. But with the snowballing momentum ever downwards, this is just the lowest point yet. 4:50pm this coming Saturday will be the next new low, after Southend roll us over and put clear daylight between them and the spanners in the race for the playoffs. "Good" Friday 4:50pm as Coventry avoid defeat...
You see where this is all going?
Finishing no lower than 20th is dependent now on the fallibility and inconsistency of the 6 teams from Bury to Swindon inclusive. This disheartened, poorly led rabble of crocks, misfits, charlatans and kids won't muster anything in the 5 remaining games. Their spirit, courage, and integrity were all clearly exposed last night. With "you're not fit to wear the shirt" still ringing in their ears, one or two will redouble their efforts but that effort will be absorbed and nullified by the withering amoeba the squad has become.
Ever lower lows attained by ever lower forms of life.
I find myself simply absolutely not caring about our results. Whether we win lose or draw, either way I just don't give a f*ck.
Roland's dismantling of something rather special.
Actually genuienly quite a hard achievement that. Not many people could do it. It's hard to imagine it was done by accident but who knows. Bet it plays nicely into his ego.
Never thought I'd feel this way about my charlton.
Some nob from Belgium has changed this. Who'd have thought he had the power to do that? Bizarre. Dreadful. Scary. Shocking.
The reasons why I want charlton to do well every match, has simply just faded. I can't explain it.
It doesn't make me sad or angry. It's something that's just simply vanished. Even when Roland eventually packs up and takes every idiot with him.
I'm worried I still won't be as bothered about charlton as I once was. I fear it's not a light switch situation.
I think it's a possible permanent scar. Very much hope I'm wrong. I'm probably wrong.
Hard to tell at this point though.
When Chris Powell was manager...which wasn't really so long ago.
That's it.
Every Saturday was something to look forward to. It was football day.
It's not just that Chris Powell was the manager. It's because we were a relatable competitive respectable deeply emotionally valued football club that I grew up supporting. Feeling very lucky they were my local team. I simply couldn't support anyone else.
Wasn't always great, don't want to paint an over the top inaccurate picture...you can't expect it to be, but my heart was in it. It was 2nd nature. I didn't even think about it.
The 2nd season in the championship under Powell. We took a hit. The squad didn't get reasonable investment as the money wasn't available anymore.
My enthusiasm burned a tiny bit at that stage. Just a bit. It was a bump though. You experience those.
Then you come back.
It just felt a bit flat. We didn't build on the achievement of the previous season. We were losing and we wasn't putting them away. The football was poor.
It was frustrating.
Probably exactly the feeling of what the dressing room was like. (Early winter 2013 I'm talking about)
It was disappointing to witness. We were very thin.
However, charlton was still charlton. Still loved the club. I never thought about my reasons for loving charlton in an objective sense. No need.
I would care more now if we were in a potential promotion push, but still, the feeling is not present.....Whatever situation we are in.
It's just based on a hopeful outcome that Roland will sell. Whether we go up or stay put.
Back in the day, even if mid table and going no where, I'd still be intensely desperate for charlton to succeed and get 3 points, whoever we were up against, let alone some joke club like MK Dons....at home!!
Embarrassing.
Maybe it's me. Maybe things just change and some things just don't seem as interesting as they once did.
The world has changed. For better or worse.
Not my club anymore though. I think it's partly to do with the way football in general is these days. Only very slightly though. Football has just taken a back seat.
More of a business and too much money involved. Inevitably it means people care less. They have other things on their mind. £££.
Players, agents, managers, pundits etc etc.
It's got stuck up its own arse.
It should mostly just be about the game. Sadly, Every year, it now just feels less and less like its a passionate competitive sport that people love playing and watching.
Maybe that's just crap based on a crappy picture I've painted in my head.
Charlton Athletic is currently a huge huge victim of that mentality. Via our owner.
I wanted a win last night. Mostly because I wanted the players to give the passionate performance that the particular rather sad emotional night deserved.
I don't want us relegated. I don't want that because I think signs are pointing to a conclusion that Roland is going to sell soon.
League 2 will be so far from where we need to be.
It will be a tragedy and everyone's head will just completely drop.
I very much doubt we would escape league 2 for quite some time, just due to the depressed mentality of everyone involved with charlton Athletic. It would be f*cked. Just pride, deteriorated.
It would be dreadful.
There is hope. A tiny bit of hope.
Just stay up and we shall see.
Keep protesting against Roland. Keep calling sue a twat.
For me, currently. My version of what the old 3 points felt like, would equate to comically watching Roland slip on a banana skin then falls into a huge pile of horse manure which is caught on video.
The charlton fans present collectively say Whey! Roland evidently goes mad.
I don't actually wish anything seriously bad to happen to the old fool. I pity a character like that.
Just sell.
At least by pre season.
There is a fact that goes with this abuse of a club. Hopeless management leads to failure on the pitch. RD and KM have no cares for Charlton and especially the supporters. But they could have built a successful team,and still despised the supporters- they have not.
Look at the real failures - Coventry, Blackburn, Leyton Orient, Charlton owners that do not care equals football failure.
What do they care about?
Extrapolating clubs' form, over their last 10 matches, forward to their remaining 5/6 games gives us this final points table:
20th Charlton 50
21st Swindon 50
22nd Shrewsbury 49
23rd Coventry 42
24th Chesterfield 40
currently there is a 16 goal difference buffer to Swindon but that will inevitably contract
Recent form can only be a guide but this should be keeping all concerned awake for the rest of the month
Based on Tuesday's abomination I can't see where gobby's Charlton will find another point, let alone 3. Even with redoubled cohesion and effort we'll still be struggling. We have to play Southend, Gills, Swindon and Chesterfield for whom the games are crucial.
In truth Charlton's fate was never in gobby's hands cos the clumsy halfwit discarded it months back, but it is very much now in the players' hands. It's a very feint hope but maybe there are enough players for whom avoiding the ignominy of relegation is a big enough motivating force for them to get their collective heads out of their superannuated arseholes to perhaps avoid defeat 4 times out of 5.
Keep smilin one and all, it will be over soon enough