Took over a sinking ship when Pardew went imo, had very little to spend until this summer and has created a squad which lost on a play off final by a spot kick last season and are now 3 points from automatics and we seem to have a basis of a good squad again. Most people on here in the pre seaosn prediction thread probably expected mid table.
Unfortunately performances haven't been that convincing though, hopefully he'll go on and be a success somewhere else and I wish him all the best.
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Cheers Parky.
All the best parky!
Nice guy,its obviously results or else from now on.....
Sure elsewhere you will be successful good luck and thanks
worst managers we've ever had? thats nonsense.
Than you must be very young.
Overall - 5/10 Tried hard but the task was to great for him
I liked Parkinson and wished he had been successful for us, but i think his doom was sealed when he said yesterday that the team was feeling sorry for themselves at half time and he couldn't get them out of that state of mind. Thats what he is supposed to do. Gee them up and motivate when the going gets tough.
Good luck Parky, i don't bear you any ill will, except when you manage a team against us obviously. But we need someone with some bite in this club in charge. Who i have no idea.
Unfortunately damned by association with Pardew which meant every error was microscopically analysed whilst anything half good was greeted with grudging silence as the vultures shifted uneasily in their seats.
Enjoy the day because when we are even lower in the table in a month or so and the "fans" are still booing at The Valley those same vultures will be posting for the new man to go.
I've got a book at home called 'The rise and rise of Chalrton Athletic'. In it the author talks about how we had gotten to the Premiership by doing things the right way, the Charlton way. Can't even look at it these days, Premiership is a distant memory and doing things the 'Charlton Way'... well lets justb say it definitly doesn't mean doing things the right way.
The way some of the people who attend our games (i can't call them fans) have acted this seaqson has been an absoloute disgrace and i would argue has had much more of an infleunce on our current standing than Parky did.
Now that Parky has gone, why don't they do the rest of us a favour and F8ck off as well!
The man had no ambition at all other than not to lose and to be safe, just listen his comments after the game last night. Also if listen to someone that knows him well (from their Reading and Charlton) days - his long time friend and mentor Parkinson said about him when Southampton Manager - Pardew said its easy to out think him and he's a good No2. Anyway I dont want to get into a debate about Parkinson, he's gone and quite frankly I believe it's the 2nd most positive news of the year for Charlton after the new owners.
Wish you all the best for the future!
Good luck for the future.
Tried his best and a very genuine person. I cannot see how you can say he didn't have ambition, because his hands were tied to a far higher degree than I think many realise.
Very few of the singings he made are bad players, Francis and Docherty for example were very good at this level for other clubs.
Sadly he was unable to manage this team to anywhere near the best of there ability in most games, especially at home, where we need the crowd behind the team. I hope finally going to the Valley will be enjoyable again as a fan.
I hope he finds gainful employment very soon and can hold his head high, he could not have done more with what he had to work with.
Well, it often appeared to inhibit the team's performance at The Valley, if that's what you mean.
Didn't Parky put his hand in his own pocket to pay a loan player's wages for a month, as reported on here?
That's going beyond the call of duty. What a fantastic gesture towards the club.
And I'll second that.