For the first time in years we will be playing in the third tier of english football with no expectations.Any player of quality would have gone and we will just have hopefully players with a point to prove striving to better themselves,let's hope so anyway.For god knows say the last 12 years we as fans have had high expectations not any more im afraid.
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Even if by some strange turn of events we go up this year people next year would be expecting us to be in the playoffs.
That being said, and I know it's pointless but, if you had said to anyone back in August would you take us being 3rd, only having lost 4 games all season I think 95% of people would have bitten your hand off.
Expectations have changed due to our fantastic start though and we now look like throwing all of that good work away. Hope it doesnt turn out that way but it's not looking good.
I never had the faith in the current manager that we would so ive nothing to give up.
No I dont think we will go up. Think the automatics is out of our reach due to the form of the past few months and unfortunately I dont think we are mentally strong enough for the playoffs. A million miles away from when we won the last play off final.
I'll still go regardless because I love the club but I expect a scrap at the bottom next season.
No, Chizz, miracles can happen. But do you seriously, having watched our performances of late, think we have the balls or the talent to get promotion?
Yes. Club will get my money but I dont want to support a regime that is dragging our club down.
yep i have given up because if the players have given up how the hell can we go up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As shown over the last 3/4 years, we'll find replacements, but we'll do very well to find replacements that match those expectations.
Have to agree with WSS, even if we go up, we'd then be (unrealistically) expected to challenge for promotion again by some. If we stay down those fans will expect promotion from this league. With what would be a weaker squad, that wouldn't do the players any good.
I hope we don't keep falling further, I don't want to be negative, but like WSS said, it's not looking good. Stay down and it'll get a lot harder and fan expectations would have to change for the good of the club.
That said, there are no stand-out teams. And, although Charlton are in the crest of a slump right now, there are only three teams who have shown they are good enough to mount a sustained challenge. Leeds, Norwich and us.
We were dreadful tonight and we haven't been much better recently. But we're still in touch, we're still one of only three teams who have enough about them to seal an automatic place, and neither of those places has been closed off by either Leeds or Norwich.
Did we play well enough today? No, not nearly. Are we good enough to go up? Absolutely yes. Will we get one of the automatic spots? Still too soon to say.
No mate not if the form that backs it up was the same. Table doesnt lie but our position flatters to deceive imo.
See what you mean and expectations would change but I dont think its purely the fans expectations that have hindered the club last few seasons.
The trouble is, the spell you are basing the belief that we could mount a sustain challenge is based on 5/6 months ago now, and we look almost an era away from that groove.
Timing is everything through a long season. All teams have ups and downs, that is natural. Once again our timing appears misplaced, and i'm collectively losing faith in the players and management to find that right formula again. There appears an air of panic about them at the moment, rightly so given results, but without the spirit or belief to realistically attack it.
I'm not giving up on going up, but game by game that it is looking more realistic that it will have to be via the play-offs, which is a 25% lottery where all forms of form go out the window. But given our inability to raise performances in spirited high tempo games, we'll have to find something extra as the signs indicate we would be outmuscled and outfought by Colchester and Millwall at least.
Unfortuneatly without a new investment that will never happen. And right now that is looking very very unlikely.
I have to disagree. I think absolutely no. Apart from the first three months of the season, I have not believed that we have played well enough. Since then, even our victories have not convinced me. As I said, miracles can happen and blind hope keeps us all going, but if I were a betting man I would put money on us being in this league next year.
Exactly. Our position is on the back of winning against mainly very poor teams whilst mostly not being very good ourselves, relying on opposition players missing numerous clear chances, basically riding our luck. Unfortunately playing poorly and getting results only lasts so long. We aren't playing that much worse than we were when we were wining, our luck appears to have now worn off and the results can no longer hide our shortcomings.
Yes those of us "moaners" would take the position we're in but some of us also like to look longterm and there isn't much to think we're strong enough for promotion by the end of the season and that's what counts, not where we are now. Too many similarities with a couple of seasons ago.
As Parky said a day or so ago, Norwich have taken something like 41 points out of 45. But we're still close to them. They will slip as we and Leeds have done.
This season is a long, long way from being over.
I'd rather us have started badly and slowly worked our way to a winning mentality as that is what you need to get through the play offs imo.Last time we were in them i seem to remember us going like a train from mid-season.We look a million miles from that now.
We have the players to get promotion but not the manager to get us promoted. Agree?