We are almost certainly looking at a play off place, if we are lucky.
As we know the play offs are very much 1 off games (albeit 2 legs), so you need a cup game mentality, to have this mentality you need a manager that is capable of motivating his players for this type of game. I’m sorry boys and girls but Parky is not that man. He appears to lack passion, if he does have passion then he has trouble communicating it to the team (Bailey excluded). Unless we get automatic promotion then we will not go up, we need someone at the helm who is able to get the team motivated for the remainder of the season. For me, give it to Kinsella, he has the drive and passion, as he proved when he was skipper, to get us through the play offs. Parky does not!
We need a Winston Churchill type character not the Churchill dog!!!
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Although I think I'd give it to Steve Gritt.
It would be foolish to change manager at this stage of the season unless a certain Mr Curbishley would take the job... this however is never going to happen.
That's us f*cked then, we haven't been good in cup games in the entire 23 years i've been supporting them for!
Yes, definitely too late.
I was all for keeping him at the start of the season ... but have to admit I was totally wrong. Next season, new manager.
... and before anyone asks, I don't know who, but then I'm not the one being paid to decide.
That said he won the one play off final he reached and reached the 6th round of the FA Cup twice too under his management. Only Jimmy Seed has done bettter than that during our history thus far.
One other thing: we narrowly got relegated from the Prem the season after winning the play offs but Curbs (with the support of Richard Murray) managed to keep all our key players and gain promotion (as Champions) at the first attempt.
Curbs was understated in his personal demeanour, rather like Parky, but by and large he got them playing for most of his 15 years here.
No way. It’s mid-march, we’re third and “only” five points off second with easily enough games to go to make that gap up. If we made a change, brought in someone who could get the most out of this squad (which I believe should be capable of getting out of this league in the right) .
Not making the gamble and the consequence that brings isn’t worth thinking about. I’d go for one last throw of the dice and Gritt – then at least we can say we tried – sitting back and watching the ship sink is not an option.
Saturday was a ballbreaker and must have been ten times worse for those actually there BUT who expected to be 3rd after 36 games this season?
I sure as hell didn't so Parky has done better than expected in my opinion.
I'm for change
Parky may not be the best but can we really do much better, also next season when we no longer have Sam, Bailey and maybe no Semedo, who is going to come in and make a difference?
But if we haven't acheived promotion at the end of the season there won't be much to review mate.
Sacking him now will cost money we haven't got and disrupt the dressing room.
This is one match in 46. It feels worse because of who it is.
Parky will know he is out the door if we fail to go up and that it is uncertain whether he will get a managerial job elsewhere. He therefore has every incentive to kicj arse and make damned sure we go up.
If we fail to go up in my opinion it is because the players, none of whom Parky bought have cost a transfer fee, are not good enough.
Parky, given the sh** Pardew left him in, has done as good a job as anybody I reckon.
Obviously but it's not as if the new manager could sign anyone or improve the side. He'd be stuck with what we've got and right now that is no left back, a useless centre half, a right winger that goes missing every week, a midfield that doesn't create enough and the worst strike force this club has seen since Phil Chapple played as an emergency striker with Kim Grant!
So unless the new man coming in is Mourinho or Sir Alex, i think we're stuck with Parky until May.
The board have lived off of our goodwill as patrons and to a degree have taken us for granted.....the £7million injection will be a drop in the ocean next year with another season in Division 3 and much smaller attendances. I really do fear for us as a club if we dont go back up at the first attempt and the style of football we have been served up with since November has been predictable and lacking any sort of tactical nous. Parky has yet again proven with his recent striker signings in Akpo and Mooney that anyone has a chance of becoming a pro footballer. We have been extremely lucky of late...even the Southend away game really only went our way due to superior numbers, and look at us against bottom club Stockport...Ive never been so bored at a football match in all my years supporting Charlton.
I looked at an old(ish) programme last night - Hartlepool at home (19th Jan). At that point we were 17 points ahead of Millwall , having played 1 game more than them...........we are now just a solitary point ahead !!
I predict we will finsh outside of the play offs in 7th or even 8th place.
Yep me to....for the right man though;-)
Parky hasnt done a bad job really tho, his only fault IMHO is not letting the players express themselves, he seems to want them to play on the same level regardless of the game, maybe ok against a side fighting for relegation but not in a derby!! you need characters like robbo to get the game moving not surpress um...
Holy f**king christ i hope i dont see the prat have a "bad spell" then.
Have to agree with all of that. Have a work mate who's Millwall, he thought it would be a tight game, after the last few games, particularly Stockport, I said they'd roll us over quite easily. Can't see us beating any of the teams in the top half on current form. Change of manager? Not sure, as it hasn't done us any good in the past few seasons but something needs to change and maybe a bold gamble is what's called for as this promotion push will fizzle out pretty quickly. I think Shelvey needs to get back in the side with Burton up top as well.
Me im siting on the fence re Parky.
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. like f**k had enough . Parkinson take your paint brush and a large pot of paint and start painting the west stand at least we can see some out put.