That’s it, no excuses now.
Needs to be a massive, sustained run into the end of the season. Hopefully injuries and poor form behind us, we need to end the season with positive momentum, comfortably secure those play offs and be the team no one wants to play.
The squad hasn’t been decimated. Though we’ve not seen new arrivals play it looks on paper we are stronger not weaker, and hopefully new ownership will be in place at some point over the next few months.
Let’s go for this Robbo, and let’s all get behind it. At present there is a chance we could be back in the Championship next season with a Wembley day out thrown in. Let’s make the next few months a rare good spell in the morbid world of Charlton Athletic
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Absolute C%€T
Charlton 0 Oxford 1 and the Robinson out thread bumped back to the top of page 1.
No new signings to bed in, Malvidi on fire and the Pole looking at prospect.
Retained Konsa and a new takeover on the horizon which may spur players on to impress if they think there's potential at the club.
Add to that the return of a few injurees (is that a word?) and a few rousing Churchillian "We'll fight them on the pitches" speeches by King Robbo and we'll be home and dry.
Come on Charlton.
4th Charlton
5th Rotherham
6th Scunthorpe
Charlton v Scunthorpe at Wembley
I believe Wigan and Blackburn are going to tighten their grip on the top two, and we have Shrewsbury to play twice. Bradford wheels are falling off. I'm a bit worried about Portsmouth, they have some momentum too, but overall we should have nothing to fear, and players whom other teams will fear.
Lost Holmes who however you spin it was a key player in our early season good run.
But replaced him with what on paper look like exciting attacking players giving us more options and depth.
Having Mavididi and now Zyro should resolve the problem we've had since Novak left of having no cover up top.
Shame the signings are loans but still look like good players.
And we kept Konsa despite, as KR said, being prepared to sell if the price was right.
Would have liked to see a keeper come in to let Philips go out and play but can't have everything.
Zyro is a distinct possibility, especially if Wolves get promoted.
Kaikai, Zyro and Mavididi look potentially to be a real handful at this level. Can’t wait to see what they have to offer. Where they fit in with Magennis is anyone's guess though.
My one concern is that we lack a bit of steel in midfield for those robust encounters against the more physical sides. That could be a real problem.
I’ve snapped up quite a few tickets for friends for the Shrewsbury match. But in the meantime, fingers crossed for Oxford!
The absence of a fire sale, a growing feeling of stability and the takeover now almost upon us are creating a solid platform for a real charge through to the season's end. We have the players and the coaches to do it. As soon as the club is in new hands matchdays will gather momentum, and the whole club can begin to move forward - TOGETHER.
The brakes are off.
Top two is gone in my view unless we somehow go on an incredible run. We'd need something better than the 97/98 season where from Feb onwards I think we only lost 3, drew 3 and won 11.
With 18 games to go 12 wins, 3 draws would be 39 points would put us on 85, probably still not quite enough for a top 2 which could well reach near on 90 points.
I think this year we'll need something around 76 points for the play offs. That's still more than 1.5 points a game....... achievable for sure, but not easy and three of the last four games of the season are tough Shrewsbury, Portsmouth and Blackburn. With four games to go we need to be on 72 points.
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