Was all for him being appointed and was still all for him at the start of the season, but now just consider him a joke. He constantly contradicts himself, doesn't have the guts to say he's got it wrong, and has laughable excuses when we've been inept and easily beaten - stating the loss of ZZ being the main one that comes to mind, we were going to sell him in the transfer window so this team should already be prepared for life without ZZ.
He also doesn't do anything during games, just stands there watching, when he joined he looked liked he cared about what was going on - cheering goals, appealing for decisions, being seen to be angry when things don't work out or mistakes were made etc. Constant changing of the team also shows he has no idea what his best 11 is, and as Barnsley showed on Saturday, as long as teams are organised and have a game plan they'll beat us easily - as we have none of those things.
If Pards does go then Parky most go as well, he is incharge of training and nobody seems to be improving as a player. Youga looks a shadow of the player who came back from Scunthorpe; Semedo still hasn't pushed on; Sam seems to be getting worse every time he plays and even Bailey looks less of a player these days.
What gets me most about the whole situation is that nobody at the club, directors, coaches or players, seems to have the guts to stand up and be counted. Nobody has come out in the press and said this is unacceptable and we'll be doing everything possible to sort it out. Statements like Pardew is the man to take us forward really aren't what we need to be hearing right now and just help to turn fans against the club even more. If we're gonna get out of this the club needs the fans back behind them.
This club is sinking quicker than a Charlton-Life thread!
I was a big fan of Alan Pardew as a player, I was very impressed with what he did as Manager at both Reading and West Ham. When he was appointed as our boss - on Christmas Eve '06 I believe - I said on here that I did believe in Father Christmas after all!
Sadly now I think that Alan has had enough time to try and change things, it's not working. I cannot not see us improving until a major change, i.e. the Manager's job is addressed.
It's not as if we are just treading water, we're sinking!
Regrettably, I have to add my name as well. I've kept quiet up until now simply because I didn't think there were any other candidates out there that could take us forward. Unfortunately, Pardew is not so much failing to take us forward, but is actually taking us backwards - and quite considerably. Anyone who saw us against Reading knows that we have a team that should not be struggling in the Championship. The fact that we are can mean only that the manager/coaching staff are to blame, in one way or another.
Out by Monday Pardew, or I'm coming down the training ground with tools...
A vote to 'go now' from my 31 year old son Adam (a fan since 1986 when I enrolled him in the Junior Reds, and the proud owner of a bulging folder of correspondence with Lennie Lawrence. As a 10/11 year old he used to write regularly to Lennie with suggestions about the team, the strikers we should buy etc - and Lennie, bless him, used to reply in detail to every letter...)
Anyway, he's currently on holiday in Venice but makes a good point by e-mail:
<If in Dec 2006 the board had access to a crystal ball and could've seen that in 23 months time we would be in the championsihip relegation zone, would they have appointed him? If the answer is 'no', which it has to be, they can only conclude he's failed and he has to go.'>
I've told him to sign up to the forum when he gets back, by the way.
Can't see any option. He has taken us steadily downward, neither he nor the players seem to have a clear idea what they''re doing. Pards looks like he'll take us down again. There is no evidence to suggest he can be successful after nearly 2 years of decline. Go.
yep i was excited by his appointment and was singing his name during the dire wickham game, but I dont see how this can be turned around without Pards leaving. I really dont doubt his commitement ,but its tiome to go.
Alan has changed too many players in and out of the side players dont know if they are coming or going which has lead to the players simply not playing as a team. With the resulting results hitting their confidence as well. Blame is down to Alan Im affraid but if he goes four managers (?, im losing count) in 3 years doesnt represent good stragegic management by the board. Was Big Chris sold for a 500k profit, should Reid have been sold when he was our only playmaker and may have got us to the play offs ? Did the board really ask Zeebel 80 million quid for the company/club ? Would not be suprised if someone like Richard Redden for example called a vote of no confidence in the board. 3rd tier since the 1980's is a posibility which is a failure :-(. ps I couldnt give a monkeys about what Leeds have done in the past I only care about CAFC.
He's taken us backwards, nothing he's done has come off, we've not one two in a row in 11 months, we're playin shite, he clearly doesnt motivate the players, now lost fans and players support, cant see him getting us out of this, and I fear us actually getting worse under his 'leadership'
He's promissed so much and hasn't delivered, he has to go.
This is his team, playing his way, and we are not getting results. He failed to get one of the best squads in the division anywhere near the play offs last season. It's not just a blip, we've been awful for months. I could count on one hand the number of good performances in 2008. If he won't resign, and i'm guessing from his post-match comments yesterday that he isn't going to, then he needs to be sacked.
I didn't expect us to get promoted last season, but I also didn't expect to always see 11 Charlton players playing as individuals, with no running off the ball, and no clue as to where their teammates were, resorting to lumping it up front to an isolated striker, playing against a TEAM that was better organised, and playing to a plan.
Yes, Please go now.
And if Parkinson claims to have worked on set pieces, he's got to go with you.
Pards has been given enough time and backing to put together a squad that should be able to challenge for promotion or at least mid table, but he hasnt done that and instead we find ourselves in the drop zone. Its not working so im sorry Pards you have to go.
It is a very long time since there was an anti-manager feeling of this magnitude at Charlton, probably not in the lifetime of quite a few fans on this board. The Les Reed fiasco was just, well, different.
I can only judge by results and other comments but surely the time is up.
It's Monday, Pardew will be at the training ground with the players. He'll know if he has their support, which I somehow doubt.
Like many, I had great hopes for the man but it hasn't worked. I hope that Mr Murray gets a visit from Mr Pardew today.
I suppose the next best thing will be a formal vote of confidence from the board!
I have supported Charlton for over thirty years and have four loyal supporters in my family, when Alan Pardew was appointed we were divided in our opinions as to whether he was the right man for the job, but like many others put our trust in the board and gave him our full support. We did not expect the first season to be easy but this season Alan Pardew appears to have lost the plot completely. He has lost the respect of the fans and it I suspect the respect of many of players. He is destroying the confidence of our players and looks to be completely disinterested in the game as he stands at the side of the pitch a shadow of the man who first arrived at The Valley. I believe Mr Pardew your times up if you cannot show us that you have the ability and desire to lead this team step aside for someone who can.
Pardew was the right appointment at the time, if anything the only man for the job. However that time has passed. He has shown he has no idea how to get the team playing, worse still he has now idea what is his best team. Even worse still is that the team are so mentally fragile that anything going against them is enough to make the fall apart. It can be seen clearly by everyone watching them play. At times the players have shown they are capable of far far better.
We have an unsettled side with no confidence playing for a manager who appears to admit that really doesn't know how to get the team out of the downward spiral. In an unsettled club it must be difficult for both the manager and the players but we must hope and expect the manager to act as a buffer and keep the players fighting for the cause. This is not happening. As such, and reluctantly, I must say that a change is needed. As much for Pardew as for us.
If you feel for this club do the honourable thing and abdicate,there is nothing else left to do. You have tried your best but the time has come. Resign today sir.
From the moment we were relegated, I believe his heart hasn't been in it. It's obvious he wants to manage in the Premiership and once Reid was sold, he gave up any hope of ever doing it with Charlton. If I thought there was the slightest chance of him turning it around I'd say stick with him. However there have been too many false dawns, the latest being the Reading game. But he even had to tinker with that side and played Bailey out wide the next game. With such inconsistancy in team selection and tactics we don't have a hope in hell of ever putting a good run together. Time to go Pards, for the good of everyone concerned and Parky has to go as well.
i have been going now for 25 years, i have introduced family and friends to our great club who have gone on to enjoy and endure Charlton Athletic.
The current plight although no where near as bad as when i started my 1st true love affair is now becoming beyond a joke. I sat there wishing for Barnsley to score 5 or 6 so that Mr Pardew had no choice but to walk away,
I feel that i am and we are being taken for granted because we are not the most agrressively vocal support i feel there is a few within who feel that it is only a few local natives getting restless and results will turn this around, They are wrong even if we had won 4-3 on saturday i would have still wished Mr Pardew to walk as the Charlton i love is dying under his tenure.
Please listen we know it is not an easy call you have shown your capabilities of doing the right thing, if it is down to money as the reason you cannot dismiss be genuinely concernd that you will loose more when we fall into Div1.
Look at clubs around us all with premier experience look at clubs below us with the prem experience, you need to act now swallow your pride and move ontogether
Alan Pardew has Lost the majority of the fans and i am sure the support from within the changing room and directors box
Those players allegedly more skillfull and better players than we had in times gone by in this league are not playing for yours and our club the question that can only be answered by them is why and the reason must be Mr Alan Pardew
I was hoping Pardew could turn things around but after Saturdays shambles it's time to go,he's run out of ideas and the players all look as if they'd rather be shopping at Bluewater than be out on the Valley pitch.We need to get things sorted now or its the The Johnsons Paint trophy for us next season.
If he leaves, he's going to need the payoff as he will struggle to get another job.
We cant afford to sack him, he cant afford to quit.
the first half against Barnsley was one of the worst performances i have seen at the Valley, just hope he realises he's not as good as his ego makes him think he is.
It is with regret and with heavy heart that I add my name to this petition. I have been going to Charlton for 43 years and I love my team and I love getting behind them. I have only ever booed Charlton players twice in my life. Once was against Burnley last season, borne out of frustration, and again on Saturday. Even in the dark days of the Andy Nelson era where he called the supporters ‘Village Idiots’ I never deserted them. My obsession with Charlton has cost me a failed relationship and the £200k that went with it. But Saturday’s performance was probably the most ‘gutless’ performance that I have ever witnessed. Worse than some of the drubbings that we took from Brighton, Luton, Cardiff etc in the 70’s and 80’s. Although those players were thoroughly outplayed and outclassed, at least they kept having a go to the very end. It was called playing for the shirt. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what business you’re in. It’s down to the manager to motivate the team and that’s something that Pardew can’t do at the moment and hasn’t been able to do for the last 18 months. I was always convinced that Pardew would turn it around but after seeing his body language on Saturday, I’m now convinced that he can’t and hasn’t got the ability or personality to do so. He has to go. If Derek Chappell is reading these comments, act now before it’s too late otherwise the hard work of the last 20 years is going to be flushed straight down the pan and you’ll be lucky to have 5,000 season ticket holders next season.
Sorry Al, but in the words of Sir Alan Sugar….You’re Fired (or should be)
I would write more about the reasons why but i'm so dis-illusioned with supporting Charlton at the moment its difficult to drum up the passion within myself.
You, Mr Pardew have drained me, my support and I hate to say it, my affection for a club that I love.
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He also doesn't do anything during games, just stands there watching, when he joined he looked liked he cared about what was going on - cheering goals, appealing for decisions, being seen to be angry when things don't work out or mistakes were made etc. Constant changing of the team also shows he has no idea what his best 11 is, and as Barnsley showed on Saturday, as long as teams are organised and have a game plan they'll beat us easily - as we have none of those things.
If Pards does go then Parky most go as well, he is incharge of training and nobody seems to be improving as a player. Youga looks a shadow of the player who came back from Scunthorpe; Semedo still hasn't pushed on; Sam seems to be getting worse every time he plays and even Bailey looks less of a player these days.
What gets me most about the whole situation is that nobody at the club, directors, coaches or players, seems to have the guts to stand up and be counted. Nobody has come out in the press and said this is unacceptable and we'll be doing everything possible to sort it out. Statements like Pardew is the man to take us forward really aren't what we need to be hearing right now and just help to turn fans against the club even more. If we're gonna get out of this the club needs the fans back behind them.
This club is sinking quicker than a Charlton-Life thread!
Sadly now I think that Alan has had enough time to try and change things, it's not working. I cannot not see us improving until a major change, i.e. the Manager's job is addressed.
It's not as if we are just treading water, we're sinking!
Out by Monday Pardew, or I'm coming down the training ground with tools...
Anyway, he's currently on holiday in Venice but makes a good point by e-mail:
<If in Dec 2006 the board had access to a crystal ball and could've seen that in 23 months time we would be in the championsihip relegation zone, would they have appointed him? If the answer is 'no', which it has to be, they can only conclude he's failed and he has to go.'>
I've told him to sign up to the forum when he gets back, by the way.
I trust the men at the top to do the right thing, whatever that may be.
He's promissed so much and hasn't delivered, he has to go.
Yes, Please go now.
And if Parkinson claims to have worked on set pieces, he's got to go with you.
He talks a good game!!
I can only judge by results and other comments but surely the time is up.
It's Monday, Pardew will be at the training ground with the players. He'll know if he has their support, which I somehow doubt.
Like many, I had great hopes for the man but it hasn't worked. I hope that Mr Murray gets a visit from Mr Pardew today.
I suppose the next best thing will be a formal vote of confidence from the board!
is destroying the confidence of our players and looks to be completely disinterested in the game as he stands at the side of the pitch a shadow of the man who
first arrived at The Valley. I believe Mr Pardew your times up if you cannot show us that you have the ability and desire to lead this team step aside for someone
who can.
We have an unsettled side with no confidence playing for a manager who appears to admit that really doesn't know how to get the team out of the downward spiral. In an unsettled club it must be difficult for both the manager and the players but we must hope and expect the manager to act as a buffer and keep the players fighting for the cause. This is not happening. As such, and reluctantly, I must say that a change is needed. As much for Pardew as for us.
If you feel for this club do the honourable thing and abdicate,there is nothing else left to do.
You have tried your best but the time has come.
Resign today sir.
It's obvious he wants to manage in the Premiership and once Reid was sold, he gave up any hope of ever doing it with Charlton.
If I thought there was the slightest chance of him turning it around I'd say stick with him.
However there have been too many false dawns, the latest being the Reading game. But he even had to tinker with that side and played Bailey out wide the next game. With such inconsistancy in team selection and tactics we don't have a hope in hell of ever putting a good run together. Time to go Pards, for the good of everyone concerned and Parky has to go as well.
The current plight although no where near as bad as when i started my 1st true love affair is now becoming beyond a joke. I sat there wishing for Barnsley to score 5 or 6 so that Mr Pardew had no choice but to walk away,
I feel that i am and we are being taken for granted because we are not the most agrressively vocal support i feel there is a few within who feel that it is only a few local natives getting restless and results will turn this around, They are wrong even if we had won 4-3 on saturday i would have still wished Mr Pardew to walk as the Charlton i love is dying under his tenure.
Please listen we know it is not an easy call you have shown your capabilities of doing the right thing, if it is down to money as the reason you cannot dismiss be genuinely concernd that you will loose more when we fall into Div1.
Look at clubs around us all with premier experience look at clubs below us with the prem experience, you need to act now swallow your pride and move ontogether
Alan Pardew has Lost the majority of the fans and i am sure the support from within the changing room and directors box
Those players allegedly more skillfull and better players than we had in times gone by in this league are not playing for yours and our club the question that can only be answered by them is why and the reason must be Mr Alan Pardew
For me this is the culmination of a dire end of last season(where our form was shocking) and this year.
Time to hold your head up high, unfold your arms and do the right thing, walk........
If he leaves, he's going to need the payoff as he will struggle to get another job.
We cant afford to sack him, he cant afford to quit.
the first half against Barnsley was one of the worst performances i have seen at the Valley, just hope he realises he's not as good as his ego makes him think he is.
Sorry Al, but in the words of Sir Alan Sugar….You’re Fired (or should be)
I would write more about the reasons why but i'm so dis-illusioned with supporting Charlton at the moment its difficult to drum up the passion within myself.
You, Mr Pardew have drained me, my support and I hate to say it, my affection for a club that I love.