I don't really know where to start, we got the goals we needed looked in control, looked comfortable. They lose a man I start to think what a great night this could be. The turning point was obviously llera again making a big match mistake, the real problem with the guy is he is solid but always seems to make big mistakes that costs us. Extra time and we looked again comfortable and I thought we could still win this but that was not to be.
My main question thats flying around in my head is what now? Players that we will loose? Will we go into administration? I can't even contemplate another season in this league......
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Regardless of how much money we have, who pulls on the shirt, who sits on the board, who is the manager one thing remains.
We are all still Charlton and we want the best for our club so let's pull together and do everything WE can to make it great again.
CTID.
Racon, Bailey, Sam.
Hell, most of our players, admin a big possibility.. and a worrying season beckons. Ah well...
behave, we've been through worse than this, and hold on tight as its gonna get alot worse, we'll be down here for a while now, but so be it atleast we're back at our own ground have our own academy which has started to produce league player after league player, you have to take the rough with the smooth, by my reckoning we've got another 2 yrs before we've balanced out the 7 yrs in the prem!
behave, we've been through worse than this, and hold on tight as its gonna get alot worse, we'll be down here for a while now, but so be it atleast we're back at our own ground have our own academy which has started to produce league player after league player, you have to take the rough with the smooth, by my reckoning we've got another 2 yrs before we've balanced out the 7 yrs in the prem![/quote]
I'm sorry, league player after league player? You mean two goalkeepers and a couple of teenage midfielders (one of whom has gone)? The only reason our acadamy is going to be producung first team players next year is because most of our players will have left and we have no money to replace them.
Yes good reviews playing for who, WELLING! not charlton first team standard now are they think about things logically man.
i dont know how much longer we can afford the academy not in this league
I thought Llera was one of our best players on the night and the difference between the game at Swindon and at The Valley. Austin ran us ragged at Swindon whereas he was bottled up mostly at The Valley.
Bought two season tickets for next year weeks ago....am I a mug or what?
I heard last night that the club don't know where Youga is, disappeared back to France 5 weeks ago for treatment and nothing heard since, dunno how true that is.
If we can keep just one then please please let it be Semedo - the guy is awesome.
Stop paying his wages then, he'll soon appear after that.
Edge of darkness ???? i laugh in your face , been there seen it and still here. As all older CAFc fans have. Football aint about glory --its about mates,laughs,disapointment and still coming back year after year.
A radical restructure may well be needed, off the pitch as well as on it, a bit like the UK economy reallly!
People cite this player and that player going, the fact is we do not know, and will have to wait and see.
I imagine that the chairman and CEO have a statergy, if not several business plans/ possibilities/options..... or lack of them!
As fans we are focussed on the squad, who is going, coming etc...... I bet the agents are busy this morning!
absolutely spot on and as the saying goes, footballers come and go but the fans are there forever
I heard last night that the club don't know where Youga is, disappeared back to France 5 weeks ago for treatment and nothing heard since, dunno how true that is.
If we can keep just one then please please let it be Semedo - the guy is awesome.[/quote]
No surprise to me that we have looked more solid in the last five weeks. He cant defend
Yes we all feel bad at this moment in time but I thinK we need a reality check here.
Would you really have want to go to Wembley and dare I say it lose to millwall and face that humiliation?
I couldn't give a toss what league we are in I support the club not chase the glory,its part and parcel of football ask any luton or oxford fan,where were they twenty years ago, we have no devine right to go up or be in that league because we charlton
Enjoy who we are because when our time comes around again you can remember seasons such as these and appreciate what you have
If, after those sales, next year’s budget for the club shows that a meaningful amount of cash will still need to be raised and they are at all doubtful as to their willingness/ability collectively to provide that cash, the directors should wave the white flag and call in the administrator as soon as possible.
Why should they do so now when they are themselves major creditors?
Firstly, on timing, the evidence of other clubs seems to show that it’s better to take the points deduction before the start of the season than have the threat of administration hanging over a club during a season and the administrator would at least have the rest of the summer to seek a new owner.
Secondly, as I’ve said elsewhere, they already know that no buyer would pay anything for the shares and would demand that the directors agree to be repaid less than 100% of their existing loans. So they are already staring at a loss on those loans in or out of administration - of course more of a loss in administration but that has to be weighed against the perennial need to inject more cash if outside the Prem (now a given for the foreseeable future, without a change of ownership).
It has to be doubtful that (post-Shelvey) our stock of saleable players will be of sufficient value to get us through another full season, even on further reduced wages, without the directors writing more cheques. After last night (and the likelihood of a weaker squad next year), their willingness to do that as a collective group may well be near its limit. They could figure that to do so would simply be to throw good money after bad - and who could blame them for concluding that? In any case, there may or may not be much unpledged security to back new loans and the security backing the existing loans is only likely to have practical relevance to the lenders if the club goes through administration, where the unsecured creditors would (unfortunately for them) get wasted first.
As has been said, administration doesn’t mean the end of a football club. There would be great uncertainty of course but it could eventually bring about a change of ownership and a badly needed re-capitalisation of the club. Unlike others, at least we own our own ground, even if it is mortgaged.
It may sound crazy but it’s not inconceivable that one or two members of the current board that continue to have meaningful financial clout might bid for the club out of administration, at that stage being prepared to inject more capital in the context of gaining sole ownership and all creditors taking haircuts of varying degrees than they would be now. Obviously, an “internal” change of ownership would be better effected without administration but that would depend upon the current relationships between the “main” directors (thought not to have been entirely harmonious in recent years). In any event, in everyone’s interests, after last night they had better get on with it if that were a possibility.
Time to hold on tight and see what happens.
(Have to say I thought this was an ironic thread title..)
Yes we all feel bad at this moment in time but I thinK we need a reality check here.
Would you really have want to go to Wembley and dare I say it lose to millwall and face that humiliation?
I couldn't give a toss what league we are in I support the club not chase the glory,its part and parcel of football ask any luton or oxford fan,where were they twenty years ago, we have no devine right to go up or be in that league because we charlton
Enjoy who we are because when our time comes around again you can remember seasons such as these and appreciate what you have[/quote]
I do remember those years and totally agree with your sentiments. Unfortunately if things don't change sooner rather than later we are heading to that situation again, and i would prefer that not to happen.
So we've got another season in League 1, lets see what the close season holds, lets wait and see who stays and goes and take it from there, roll on August!!!
Oh yeh and if England can win the World Cup in the summer it won't make up for last night but it will cheer me up...a bit!