Anyone else getting grief from other fans yet?
I got the "you're skint and you're going down" from a Millwall fan last night". You'll get relegated and then have a 20 point deduction when you go into administration. I bet him £20 that we wont be in a league below them next season but that's more me believing that they don't go up rather than we wont go down.
Funny how these spanners are crawling out of the wood work. Not seen nor heard much from them for years!
Been a long long time since i felt this low about Charlton.
Still be there on saturday though
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Found the whole episode a real eye opener to be honest.
Always thought the reason everyone followed Charlton wasn't just through family or because its the local club reasons, but additionally that it was a 'proper' football club that has ups and downs, but ultimately is widely different to a the big four commercial animals.
Seeing the way so many creamed themselves on the tiny prospect that we had a chance of turning into one of those beasts, surprised me greatly.
yes of course, but not at any price.
Agreed, and we would have turned into a commercial beast, a lot of people on here had spent millions and drawn up a new squad within 1 hour of the rumours hitting this forum two Fridays ago.
so be it.
... why is it any different for my football club?
I got some grief, they can go f**k 'em selves, you get thick skin being an Addick.
But i'm sure many will tell you that a lottery win does not automatically bring happiness, that some still end up bankrupt, and some wished they never won it in the first place !!
I fully appreciate others will disagree with our stance, but i just can't when i break it down see how their model matches up in any way with our model. The decisions on how our club would be run would be decided on the other side of the world, by people who know nothing of our club, have never been to The Valley, the area or seen one of our games. Their only knowledge of football in this country would be that of the superpowers that get mass coverage in the Middle East, and as we know, that is a very different entity to us.
Their real intentions of why they were interested in our club were never fully established, whilst the announcing statements and closing statements contained quotes that were quite clearly false, manufactured bollocks. It could well be that their intentions were long term to move the club to another area, or for the club to not be their primary focus, but an 'in' into a developing area etc. We simply have no idea what their intentions were.
If they had of come in and thrown their chequebook around in the short-term, it could of had dire long-term consequences, once again landing us with a wage bill we could not sustain again, whilst breeding greed in supporters. We would as a club be trying to run before we can walk properly.
If they had of come in and not thrown a chequebook around, they would have been a target for those who got off on the thought of Charlton becoming a superpower. With no connection to the club, i know how they would of reacted once stick started to fly around.
Ultimately, i just don't think we are strong enough as a club to successfully carry the amount of change this would of instigated. Had this have happened three years ago, i would of seen it being a successful venture. But not from our current vantage point.
Just my view though.
Totally agree that there may well have been negative to any decisions, there can also have been be massive gains and positivity. It's all conjecture at this point as we'll never know. We could have ended up like Chelsea or at worst Hearts but it would definately have been a fun ride!
The way i see it is Zabeels loss, they don't want to be involved in this fantastic club of ours no skin off our collectrive nose's we're in a similar position to where we were a couple of weeks ago.
few of the crystal palace lot at work, gave a few jibs but even they seemed gutted for us!!
oh other than knob head united fan, then reminded him the fact he'd never even been to manchester no matter seen them play, which of course he clammed to have seen them on numerous occasions, forgettin i'd been friends with him since school and knew he never had, y do they do it??
The top four of the premiership still hasn't changed for a few years now and until it does they'll be no proof that all this money is solving things.
I'm one of the mugs who did...and I readily admit it!
Feeling 'absolutely' gutted and it's gonna take sometime for me to get over the dissapointment....by nature I'm a glass half full character and it's hit us, with that kind of trait in their character, quite a bit harder than the glass half empty brigade.
Seems something like a 50/50 split on this board.
Sorry, I should have phrased that comment better - I meant that fans of other clubs didn't take it too seriously. I imagine that very few people who support Charlton that wouldn't want to see a larger cash investment in the club.
I did get excited about the takeover and although money isn't everything as the saying goes;
Better to be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
As I said to them, the press didn’t even speculate about them.
same
Would still have liked it to have gone through as it would have been a new adventure but there will be other excitements, maybe even other takeovers, owners so will look forward to them.
some people rationalised relegation as a good thing because we'd weed out the deadwood, win more games and visit new grounds. Look how that turned out.
Thank god for Spurs, they keep the heat off everyone else at the moment.