I can't find words to describe how I feel about last night. Well I can but they are all Anglo-saxon.
I don't know how the other directors reacted as I was in my own seat, not the directors' box, but I can guess.
That's all I'm going to say as I'm too angry and pissed off to have a rational debate and I'll say something I shouldn't
I'm off out on a work visit. If people want to e-mail me than the address is below.
Ben@charltonfansdirector.co.uk
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We are a complete laughing stock
Things have declined so rapidly over the pst six months that it needed to come to a head. Last night was the most i have EVER seen a whole crowd go against a club, let alone Charlton where i like to think we're a little bit more knowledgeable than most.
If you're crazily trying to look for a positive, then by coming to a head now, we have eight months to get our act together, find a structure that works with the right staff, ship out players that don't want to be here, and bring in the right individuals geared to be a top half Championship side.
Everyone thinks going down will be fun, little tour of the Championship, but it won't because what we currently have would see us struggle in the Championship. In that way you have to fight and bollock you're way out of it, we simply wouldn't be up to the challenge.
I hate to use the term cancer, but there is something extremely severe hampering and running through our club at the moment, and its very sad to witness.
Fair play to Holland and Rommedahl who braved the abuse and gave us a clap, and Scott Carson is a gentleman, at least he gives a cr*p about the shirt and the badge.
I still kind of feel sorry for Faye, but that is gradually changing, also, Darren Bent is out of form and probably unfit - bad move making him captain last night, he's no leader - Reed should have played Holland from the start and made him captain.
AFKA- Admire the underlying positivity of the post above and hope i feel like this when both the alcohol and football hangovers wear off.
For the moment- i just don't know how to feel apart from sad
We have to get rid of the high earning drossers likle Faye, Traore, JFH and Diawarra asap and bring in some hungry Championship players. As I said in another thread things are so desperate I would get in Souness for the rest of the season to kick some ass and be totally intolerant of ineptitude. Sorry Les, but you have to go.
I had high hopes for Diawarra but a League 2 player embarassed him on many occaisons last night and he is lucky he was only responsibloe for one goal. Traore is an absolute nightmare of a joke.
Personally I think we have chuecked £10M+ down the drain - get rid of all of these in January even if it is on free transfers.
Showing balls is not bottling a 60:40 challenge in your favour 5 minutes into the game, showing balls is not turning you're back sticking your arse out and tucking your head in for every arial challenge.
Of all the tough vikings that have come out of Scandanavia, we get Dennis the dolly.
I wish Holland was clapping out of the door 2 seasons ago and as for Dennis.....well
This all has been coming a long long while ago.
We ALL knew that Traore for 2 Milion quid was total madness, ditto Marcus Bent for 2.5 Million.
READ AGAIN Marcus Bent for 2.5 Million.
You do expect your defenders and central midfielders to tackle.
Wouldnt it be great if you could sack players.
Sorry Djimi, we're gonna have to let you go today...
Add that to the dross that Curbishley left us with and you have...........well what we have got really .......a nailed on relegation side that could go straight out the bottom of the Championship!!!
But it was him who signed El Kak, Hughes, Holland, Romm, Ambrose, HH, M Bent - seven players who have underperformed significantly this season or who are not good enough. He also tried to sign Faye and JFH.
His part was smaller than others, but he can't be absolved of all blame.
Peakey, you only have to look at the shambles of a squad that Curbishley left us with at the end of last season to see where the problems began. Dowie was then recruited too late to have any chance to bolster the squad properly in time for the new season. As a result he had to go and panic buy a lot of players who also arrived far too late and who all missed the pre-season training and conditioning required to get the team ready for a Premiership season. It was all so predictable. Most of our squad are still not really fit and certainly not playing as a team.
The major reason why the team is in such a state this season is the fact that Curbishley left us with such a poor group of players when he left.
I think it was Dave Beasant who said maybe Curbishley knew the writing was on the wall and decline was inevitable with an aging team with many out of contract players and major rebuilding required - perhaps he decided that it was time to get out while his reputation was still intact.
I think many fans reckon we would be in something of a similar position even if he had stayed - maybe slightly better off but not significantly so!
That is exactly why Curbishley left. He knew we were in the shit and jumped ship before he got dragged down with us.
on that basis curbs could have left us after every season as we were always favorites for the drop,yet i can only really judge him on what happened,not what might have and his record speaks for itself.mid-table security in february and a shit couple of months after that.