I stated on this board a while back that my kids told me that they wanted to renew their ST's for this season.
However until I get clarification of the takeover - Deal or No Deal - either way, I just want to know, as a paying fan, where my club is at, until then my dough is staying in my sky. We will be going to games but the belonging to the CAFC 'family' wont happen until I know more.
I suspect some other fans have a simliar view.
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If we're doing well around Christmas, I suspect we'll sell a fair few 'half season' tickets then.
I see the troll is back.
When we were in the prem i saw fans come and go as we got worse cos it was a nice day out as much as this was good for club revenue. However it winds me up to see arm chair fans and fans who only become fans when we are playing man u (without a shodow of a doubt my most hated english team bar palace and Millwall of course), Arsenal, Chelsea teams like that but when we have Wycome no sod turns up. Werwe has the luv gone to me it doesnt matter who we are playing i will be there because thats what being a true football fan is about. You dont go to the Valley to watch the other team surely
Unless the other team gives us our ball back, sometimes (like last season) we don't have a choice !
Everyone has the right to attend football or not. There's a whole variety of reasons why they might or might not. Sure it's irritating watching the Premiership fans slowly melting away with a variety of creative excuses, but we always knew they would. We seem to be doing OK support wise, considering how spectacularly bad the team and management has been: so you could focus on that positive. I can totally understand why someone might make the decision not to attend while things are going along as they are at the moment. Just trotting out the "not a proper Charlton fan" line is pretty tired. It could be argued that they're better fans than us, because they're voting with their feet and making it clear to the club that the course they're on isn't acceptable.
i have no problem with anyone saying 'sod paying out my hard earned dough to watch this shyte week after week.'
Ha ha ha ha ha
If anyone seriously believes the club are just holding out letting everyone know for some kind of personal entertainment then they really need to get a grip.
If the club had keep quiet about Zabeel (which they couldn't) then we wouldn't be in this position.
Nathan, I thought I asked you to be nice to the good folk on CL.
Dazzler, could you help an old man out? pop round to Nathan's and smack him up the side of the head.
Only Kidding NateDog
You don't need a smack Henry embaressed you enough with his ccomment!
Of course, but there's a little bit of a keyboard warrior in you
It sounds sad but that is the way i was brought up in a family were football is prettyu much all that mattered and to see people being fickle with the club i love just breaks my heart lol.
I know how sad that sounds but its so much more to me than a football club as i was brough up in the area i love everthing about it
That's how I feel (about Nathan and getting a ST as long as I can afford it) but it's up to every individual to decide how they want to support the club and to what extent.
At least after the two promotions in two seasons that are about to happen to CAFC I will be able to wave my 2009/10 ST book in the face of anyone who calls me a Premiership glory boy : - )
I watched the club in the third tier, indeed I went to almost all home games and many away games during that time. When we moved to Sellout Park, I couldn't bring myself not to go, even though it broke my heart to have to watch the best side we'd had since I became a supporter playing at that sh*thole.
When the club moved to Upton Park, I really found it hard to make the trek across the river and as a consequence didn't go to many games. Once we went back to the Valley I went to as many games as I could. Irritatingly, I moved to Norfolk during the Play Off season and because I worked on Saturday, I couldn't make many games. Sespite this I became a ST holder in 1998, although I was in Valley Gold before that for a number of seasons. I have been a ST holder ever since.
In the last four years though, I go to as many games, home and away, as I can.
Throughout my time as a fan, I still supported them, still became morose on a Saturday if we lost, or ecstatic if we won. Each to their own but for me once a fan always a fan, attending games or not.
A half witted 13 year old is a compliment on this board
Just dont see that as being a true football fan of any club, if that was a club like Sheffield Wed or UTD, or Stoke or a club like that you just wouldnt see that sort of thing excepted.
I know a few Stoke fans and they say their crowds used to fill the Britania when they were right down to the present day now there in the prem. Same people as well seats are reserved for football people not people who only turn up when they are winning and dont when they are not.
If you only want to turn up too a club that wins all the time then go up too Manchester they both are looking good this season.
You see my point though
Logic dictates that you should knock it on the head and do something else but even if you don't go to the games you spend time thinking about how it's going if you are out or glued to teletext, radio and Charlton Life if you are in!
When I was young I had to buy the classified Evening News to read the report.
As I said it's in the blood whether i like it or not.
IE the ground was half full.
Nathan, I've been coming to the Valley since '73 so been here before, we were even shi*ter then!! No, really!!
I dunno, the yoot of today, I didn't fight 2 World Wars you know!!
It isn't the fact I "only want to see a club that wins all the time" it just would have been nice to see a little effort and commitment, which I hope is something that will happen this season.
it took us 3 seasons to get back up then , i'd happily take promotion in 3 seasons time
1997/98 15,025 (Div 2)
1998/99 12,732 (Div 3)
1999/00 11,426 (Div 3)
2000/01 13,767 (Div 3)
2001/02 13,966 (Div 3)
2002/03 14,588 (Div 2)
2003/04 14,425 (Div 2)
2004/05 16,456 (Div 2)
2005/06 14,432 (Div 2)
2006/07 15,749 (Div 2)
2007/08 16,823 (Div 2)