Lets face it, we have a squad that is not good enough for this division. I'm struggling to think of a single player with the necessary skills/bottle combination to be a Tier 2 player. We have some players that have one of those attributes, several who blow hot and cold having them one day but not the next and several more with seemingly neither of them. But who can we honestly say possesses both?
Even if we were to produce a miracle and scrape by this term, what would that leave us with? It's not feasible to scrap an entire squad and start from scratch. Even with cash in the bank that's a no-no; in our predicament it just can't be done. But with the squad we have, that seems to be just what we need. So, if by chance we could stay up, we'd just be in for more of the same punishment next year. It might just be the best thing to accept our fate, go down gracefully and be a bigger fish in a smaller pond. At least at a lower level some of our players might have the necessary skill level, and the confidence-boys might perform better if we could get a few easy wins.
Not the most positive post in the world, I know, but perhaps relegation could be for the best. Then again I remember thinking that two years ago!
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You win nothing on paper as we have seen, but why the constant downward spiral ?
Is it a case of once a club is on a downward move, its more difficult than you realise to halt it ? You can't pinpoint it at one specific person, because Dowie, Reed, Pardew and Parkinson & Kinsella are all having the same issues.
We could well be in freefall.
Like Dowie?
Of course, there are people who will suffer on a more personal level, staff at the club, due to no doubt pending redundancies, and thats not a good thing obviously.
However, as a club, we can regroup, re-evaluate (sic) and start with a big broom at most levels.
There will still be a Charlton Athletic, just playing at a different level, bigger clubs have survived, Leeds currently, Man City a few seasons back and Wolves about 10-15 years ago went right down the swanny, and similar sized clubs are bouncing back (Leicester).
My thoughts are with the staff behind the scenes who work hard everyday, who will lose there job
Of course, there are people who will suffer on a more personal level, staff at the club, due to no doubt pending redundancies, and thats not a good thing obviously.
However, as a club, we can regroup, re-evaluate (sic) and start with a big broom at most levels.
There will still be a Charlton Athletic, just playing at a different level, bigger clubs have survived, Leeds currently, Man City a few seasons back and Wolves about 10-15 years ago went right down the swanny, and similar sized clubs are bouncing back (Leicester).[/quote]
Exactly my thoughts, if we are not good enough we are not good enough.
I'm not in the Parkinson out group as i think a lot of the players he has brought in make sense and make us better equiped for this division physically. Unfortunately for him the rot has set and you cant change the whole squad.
They are my Charlton my only Charlton and i dont care where i watch them as long as its them. We will see
Darren Ambrose it is then ;-)
I was thinking Christensen????
Lol, spot on DA9, he has NEVER worked for the club
how about andrew mills did he ever work for us???
think of the new grounds though and a chance to win a few more games it's not all bad;-(
Isn't it ?
If we goto tier three we are in a great deal more cack than we already are..
The most depressing thing I've read in a long time is Ketman's sentence : ''The only way the current club decline will be arrested is when we get some kind of outside investment, until that time we will continue to fall from grace''.
In our hearts we all know that is true, I suspect. Our current board may keep us out of administration - although their estimated operating loss next year of 1.5 m was based on staying up, I think. If I read the reports from the AGM correctly, next year's loss in div one is estimated at 4.5m pounds.
Can they sustain that? I don't know. But this board has clearly decided - let's put this diplomatically - that they have ''taken Charlton as far as they can''.
As Ketman says, under the current ownership we will continue to spiral downwards and unless new investment comes in, it's hard to be very optimistic that we will bounce back any time soon.
Thank heavens the cricket season will be upon us in two months time!
Stay up and we'll be like Southampton, playing a lot of the youngsters.
Go down and if we get it wrong we'll carry on the decline and end up like Bradford, dropping into League Two.
As said people were saying the same thing two years ago, hard to see us doing what Leicester have at the moment. Difference is this time, we won't waste money on gambles. The little money we have will be spent on players for the first team.
We'll see this next season when a lot of them are playing well for other clubs. People moan about Hudson and Fortune, but they're no worse than players like McCarthy, who's having a good season with Palace.
Sorry to hear that VMc, but I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment.
Depends what straw we draw!