Thank you for Paddy Mac - he is rapidly becoming a major hero at SE25. Yesterday against Sheffield United he begged Neil Warnock to play despite having a dislocated shoulder, and the legend scored. He ended up the game covered in blood after one of Blackwells thugs broke his nose, but he continued right to the end.
I can't speak highly enough of Paddy Mac - legend, hero and gent.
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We're not that bothered about you sweetheart. I wanted to thankyou for the neighbourly gesture of giving us Paddy Mac and taking Mark "Agricultural" Hudson off our hands.
Are you looking forward to the 27th January? I am. Got my ticket last week. I am looking forward to you singing "Number one in South London". Do you still do that, or has the mood been tempered somewhat with your inability to win in 14 games?
Can't wait until the 27th my dear boy.
Can't wait until the 27th my dear boy.[/quote]
I can assure you Squire, that I am not a member of any ensemble, clique or circle, just a man wishing to act in the spirit of British pleasantries and thank his neighbours for a lovely gift.
I am delighted that you are looking forward to the 27th - I always enjoy the trip to Plumstead to visit our neighbours. You are such nice and pleasant people.
All in all think there ain't much in it and no one should be crowing over who got the best deal.
Hudson was very good for us under Warnock, before Warnock got hold of him he was very unreliable and had suffered from being played out of position. NW gave him a role, some self belief and he ended up as captain.
He is not worth the 11K a week he is rumoured to be getting at the Valley. Paddy will be on nothing like that so financially I'd guess the deal would have work out about the same.
I still think you will get out of this................just.
We don't think we'll get out of this. I have to say that we are nowhere near the team that beat you at The Valley last year and we are even nowhere near as good as the crap team that you beat at Selhurst a few months ago. We are dreadful and unless we get a new manager and half a dozen decent players in the next few weeks then we are sunk.
We're not even the team that won 2 of it's first 3 games this season, that's plain to see. If anything, ability wise, the only position at the moment where we are truly lacking, is a creative centremid to interact with others.
Our biggest problem, is not defence - most teams often ship a goal during a match - but our inability to create enough chances. Let me say that again - we simply are not creating a sufficient number of chances, therefore we rarely look like scoring.
Our second biggest problem is the mentality of the side. Ability wise, our players are more or less up to the standard of the division, but collectively as a team and in many cases individually, there is no longer the belief that we can win the match.
How many times have we seen recently, the team plays well enough until we concede - and then the belief evaporates instantly before our eyes? At that moment we might as well all pack up and go home, because the team becomes dead on it's feet.
They are the 2 most urgent problems to address - if they can be put right, the team has enough ability to make a fair fist of a relegation escape.
But for crying out loud, whenever there's a setback they need to fight!
And if the present manager can't change that, then there needs to be a change in manager.
But, whether you're resigned to relegation already or not, there is still good time to save this club from relegation.
But the sooner we start, the better chance we shall have.
I think you'll get out of this because
A. your squad is capable of a higher position than the one you currently occupy. They just need confidence and a back basics approach to the game. A new manager will bring this.
B. As poor as you have been you are by no means a drift.
C. Southampton are poor and getting poorer.
D. someone else who is not even in the relegation scrap at present will also drop in to the mix.
E. The CAFC job was a poison chalice for anyone following Curbishley, it was like following o'neill at leicester. No one was going to improve on what curbs did. But now CAFC are on their heels at actually a pretty good job to take over... the only way is up and all that.
F. A new manager will be appointed and it almost does not matter who it is, they are bound to get some kind of positive reaction.
G. And we'd love it if you went down, so if only to pee us off you'll stay up and we'll all be moaning about jammy charlton.
Over the course of 90 minutes, individual errors aside, under Parky the defence appear to by and large be doing their job, especially with the amount of pressure they are under with the midfield being totally inadequate to take the game to opponents.
I stand by what I said, our biggest problem is the lack of creativity in centremid and the lack of chances to the striker(s). If we were scoring goals, we would feel that we had a chance.
Secondly, the fact that the team holds up together until it concedes, yet after doesn't take the game to the opposition.
It feels like a surrender. Where's the tenacity and determination to retrieve the situation?
If I'm brutally honest we don't have a good enough right or left back (unless McEverley is good enough when he returns), our centre mid I agree is not good enough, (any of them), our wingers are not performing and nor are our forwards.
In summary I wouldn't be looking to get in a goalie and I think John Fortune is playing well, but anyone else could go and it wouldn't be a great loss (judging them on how they are playing at present).
But generally speaking, most of us can only see where we are now, and not the possibilty of how things can quickly change - a case of when standing too close to an elephant, all you can see is grey.
It took less than half a season to get into our present predicament, and maybe it'll take less than half a season to get out of it. Perhaps.
Look at Son of Selhurst's posts; he's not emotionally involved with Charlton, so stripping away the emotion, he can see our situation as it really is.
Another day tomorrow. But I agree with you, the sooner we change the mentality of the place, the better the chance we have. That will probably mean a new manager within a fortnight.
NB I sent Derek Chapplle a long whisper earlier, begging him to appoint a decent manager and that incomprehensibly we are repeating the same mistakes from a couple of years ago, eg Les Reed etc etc
LOL, Covered End!
Derek Chappell ..... I wonder if you'll get a full reply to your message. In some ways, it would be insightful if he would post on here again, unless there's already behind doors activity to appoint a new broom .....?
Well at the Bromley meeting on Tuesday he stated that Parkinson was the man for the job and he was hopeful that he would be successful. When asked who had contacted Richard Murray re the position, which has still not been advertised, he said there was a few interesting names, but turned to Steve Waggott as he didn't really know.
I challenged him that his "hope" that Parkinson would be successful did not fill me with any confidence and was there anything else he could offer. He basically shrugged and repeated that he "hoped" that Parkinson would turn it around and we had no money to spend as we weren't going to borrow any more.
I wasn't impressed with either Waggott or Chappell who came across to me as dispassionate businessmen, unlike RM who you can tell really cares. However, that is a personal judgement and I may well be wrong and maybe it's not a bad thing in any case?
I couldn't be at that Bromley meeting, but it does sound rather that the 'Accountants' are in charge at Charlton, regardless of our current plight.
Mind you, most businessman work from a sound strategy that includes how to take their business forward as well as their current specific financial situation - and it can be difficult to balance needs of one area of a business against another.
But usually, their strategy relies on a little more substance than 'hope'.