What a complete shambles our once proud club has become. No leadership, no pride and apart from the supporters it would appear no passion.
THE BOARD: The myth used to be that Charlton were a perfect example of how a football team should be run. We were told that having Richard Murray as the chairman, Charlton were blessed with having a chairman who had a shrewd football business brain, and importantly had his finger on the pulse of the club What a complete load of bollocks that has turned out to be!
The reality is we have a chairman who got very, very lucky when he appointed Alan Curbishley. Once Curbs was pushed out of the door Murray has stumbled from one appalling decision to another. In two years he has turned the club from a club that other clubs aspired to copy, into a club that has become the laughing stock of football.
THE MANAGEMENT: The less said about the management the better. Parkinson is inept and a total loser. We are told that Mark Kinsella and Phil Chapple are the ideal management team because they have Charlton running through their veins. Well I have Charlton running through my veins, as does the laundry lady and probably most of the programme sellers. That doesn’t make any of us ideally suited to the job.
We now have in Phil Chapple statistically the worst manager in the Clubs history, managing the worst team in the Clubs history.
THE TEAM: In forty years supporting this club I have seen my fair share of useless players and inept squads. But I honestly am struggling to think of any team as bad as the present squad. In the 1970’s and early 1980’s some of the Charlton teams were rubbish but at least them teams went out and tried. They played to the best of their limited ability and nobody could fault them for that, however the present squad are simply not interested. No passion, no pride, no interest.
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There's a lot of truth in what you say Dickie. I think it was Prague Addick who mentioned that Murray's appointment of Peter Varney was also a very good decision, as, together, they did, without doubt, drive forward the development of The Valley. They maximised the use of the Sky money which Curbs generated year after year.
But I think it is fair enough to say the things achieved by Alan Curbishley were completely unexpected when he was given the job on a sole basis. Sadly, since Curbs left the building, your assessment seems pretty accurate.
Another sad fact is that if you had tried to raise some question marks on here about where the club was headed after last season's failure and the reduction in the transfer budget, the sell-off of players or the fact Pardew appeared entirely safe in his job, you'd now be in a witness protection programme and you would be called Billericay Deirdre... ;-)