Interested in YOUR views on what needs to happen in the next paragraph of the club.
Forget anything that has already happened, lets just concentrate on what you think should / needs to happen in both the next couple of weeks, and in the couple of months that follow.
No replying / disagreeing with others views, let everyone just have their say.
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At all costs we have to avoid relegation and preferably a relegation fight. With our squad, which is pretty strong, we should be in the top half of the division at least. I'd also like the new manager to bring in a couple of defenders from somewhere, we have to stop leaking stupid goals.
If we can get safe this season, then we can reassess the situation next summer without the parachute payments.
I think the only thing that can truly take the club forward is the right type of takeover. As much as I try I can't see around that, which is why I'm still gutted about the Zabeel affair.
i think we need the right man in place to make us hard to beat, and i think it is important that it doesnt take longer than a week to get this person in, as to be honest it has gone on too long
Get the managerial appointment done ASAP and if the board feel that a short term appointment is needed to stop the rot before moving forward for the future, then let's go with it. Nailing the right appointment at this stage of the season with our current league position is crucial (obviously).
So now each of us needs to play our part in the revival of this great club. I hope we have reached our low point. So what do we do:-
1) This Board didnt set out to appoint managers that fail. But that has been the case. These guys have tried to invest all they can personally and to look for others that can do more. I dont criticise them for that at all. Whatever their choice regarding a new manager knowing all the facts I am 100% behind them. I would not wish to be in their position.
2) New Manager. One of the key factors here is getting the fans on board. I am afraid that Parky rightly or wrongly is tainted as a man of the Pardew era. I am afraid a new brush is required.
If it were me I would offer a 6 month performance related contract with a simple formula based on survival in this Division and bonuses based on the position we earn in this league at the end of the season. Quite who would accept such a proposition I dont know but I would have thought their are many well qualified managers who are not in employment at the moment who could fit the bill.
3) Players. Amongst this squad there are 11 players who are capable of staying in this division. Maybe some loan additions are required. But forget this bullshit that the squad is too good to go down. We are now easy targets at home and our best chance of points are away from home. They need to give 100%.
4) Fans. Dowies gone/Reeds gone and now Pardews gone. Time to regroup. Forget the fecking feeeesh.
No more nicey nicey's from me. We need to move forward now! ONWARDS AND UPWARDS....
its really that simple,as soon as the players start to want the ball I believe we'll start pickin up mometum, we do have the quality to atleast compete in this league. But we have to want it.
Currently we simply don't there's; no commitment, no passion, no composure, no movement,no drive, no direction, no running, no creatin space, simply no wanting of the ball.
That HAS to change. Hopefully pards will have taken some of that negativity away with him and we can have a positive response, but I think we do need to realise he wasn't/isn't the only problem with this club/team, we have been in freefall for 3/4 years now. what we need is someone to steady the ship and I don't mind waiting for the right person, aslong as we survive this season. Anything else is a bonus
A couple of wins - and soon - is an absolute must, but with the players we have I am convince we COULD put a little run together and, dare I say it, push for a play off spot. But first things first, let's get those couple of wins first.
Having made the (what became inevitable) decision that Pardew should go, even if it was mutual, we should not be afraid to persist with a caretaker if necessary until we find the right long term manager.
The first question is have we chosen the right caretaker? I personally would have preferred Gritty or Peacock but Parkinson did an excellent job without Pardew at Colchester so he also has a managerial pedigree which is easily forgotten in the fall out from Pardew's departure.
As to a long term successor my preferred candidates are likely to be too expensive or not want the job and yes I mean Curbishley mainly. It may have come too soon for Kinsella although I would love to see him with a more experienced mentor. Maybe Peacock or Gritty would be happy to become number two and offer advice to Mark if neither want the responsibility of being number one. If Parky does a decent job as caretaker then I wouldn't rule him out either.
One thing is certain though. Survival in this division will now constitute a good season if anybody had any delusions of grandeur left.
some parts of our play today was pretty good & if Bouzza has taken his chance and mase it 5-3 I think we could have even got a draw out of it - sheff Utd were all at sea at the back during that 2nd half. It shows that the players can still do it but 5 out of the last 6 games we have gone a goal down early on during the 1st half.
The incomig manager should be non-charlton and certainly not one of the present staff - someine with no previous knowledeg of the palyers and no pre-conceived idesa.
By the end of December we should be mid-ish table and feeling more confident. And have someone permanent in charge who knows what/who he wants, and how he's going to do it.
Crystal balls can go all fuzzy...but we haven't got a bad squad. We just need someone to mould them into a f***ing good team, insead of pretending there's a good team without putting the effort into take it any further.
The Board needs to prepar for running with no dosh at all for a long time. We have been here many times and im sure plans are in place.
Long ,long term look at the kids we need them coming through.
We may need to sell Jon Jo , even in Jan as Saints did with the guy to the Goonershit.We may need to sell both Weaver and ZZ as well.
THe peeps who did such a stunning job with target 10,000 need to be in place to draw up plans for when the wheels fall off our support.
We need a manager who understands that hard,organised,difficult to beat teams do very well in the Chumps League(stoke/Hull).
Loan players are NOT the answer. We know from experience that 4 every Jorge Costa there are 10 dummies. If we have to go for loans then it musnt hit the moral of the rest of the team.
FFS win a few games somehow anyhow ----- be lucky----------be horrible--- be hard ------------be lucky.
stability
Confidence
Goals
In that order. The first will help the second which will lead to the third...
I hope
Edit: The bloke on the PA, I think his name is Pete Nutall, has to go. We need someone with a bit of passion to help get the crowd going. We need someone who has Charlton blood running through their veins. This bloke couldn't whip up a pot of cream. Bring back big Brian Cole.
I doubt Parky is the man, but he has 100 per cent support for now and we should not be rushed into a decision we may repent later. On the pitch, his priority is to sort out the defence. We moan about our non-firing strikers but the mess at the back is far worse. We've let in more goals than Doncaster or Forest!
Expectations are now low. As somebody else said, survival will now be considered a successful season. That can work to our advantage. Start with a clean sheet or two.Nick a goal that gets us all three points - and build from there. With our hopes and aspirations suitably adjusted downwards, from that lowered base we might even end up over-achieving rather than under-achieving.
Curbs will obviously be linked to us again, but that could come with all sorts of issues? or is he the short term fix we and others talk about?
Parkie with Kins has the positive record of Colchester and the negative of Hull.
If he can't believe how Pards got sacked because it was the board, the player and the fans fault then I suppose its the door but don't expect a big name maanger, we just don't have the money- bring in someone with on field organisational skills and the ability to be consistent.
He's been part of Pardew off and on for a long time now, since being his 1st team skipper at Reading.
Many assistant managers would have walked out in sympathy with their sacked manager or at least feel a twinge of conscience at stepping into the deadman's shoes. Perhaps his own relationship with Pards had become increasingly strained, which was apparent for all within the club to see?
We won't know until tomorrow, of course - but it'll be interesting to hear what Parky himself has to say.