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I'm sick of seeing all the negative threads on the man, and I just want to tip the scales back in his favour a little.
The fella has a hard task, I'm sure the players respected and liked Parky, and with his sacking by the new owners, the board saying they dont see promotion as the goal this season, the main challenge for them is to change the ethos of the club, the will to perform has gone.
With the talk of a cash injection for new players next season the players may feel they wont be around next season, and therefore dont really give a toss.
From what I 've read, Chris has tried to change the football style, it seems that the players are not able to fathom it, or do not wish to, and results and performances have shown this.
We do not see what happens on the training ground, nor what powell says in the change rooms.
We've had worse managers, Parky was at the helm for a record numbeer of winless games at the beginning of his tenure, Dowie was useless, as was Reed.
So if you believe in him, and the board turn the club around, let's hear from you.
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SCP is in the hotseat and good luck to him he's gonna need it
Real time to judge him is november then we'll have a good idea
In the words of whitney houston to Sir Chris
'I will always love you'
This
Be honest would you be trying if you knew you would be out of a job
This appt though was made with heart & not the head
This appt though was made with heart & not the head[/quote]
Or woith the PR head. The board may be the new board but their knee jerk reaction only hours after taking over is why we are where we are. The chain events following that decision is no different to the ones that were made when curbs left.
This are genuine questions, not a dig.
What should the contingency plan be if Powell brings in many new players in the summer and by November it is clear that he can't get them to win games?
Should the board hold off spending all the money they have so that they have some money to give any new manager, or do we go for bust and let Powell blow our whole budget in the hope that he is, after all, the great manager that we all hope he is?
We have, after all, only just got rid of some of the players Pardew riddled us with when he was given 'full support' in the transfer window.
It's the need for the word 'hopefully' that worries me.
God i hope he turns it around and goes on to be the best manager ever.
This was true of Curbs/Gritty and was probably true about Parky - trying to get his career back on track under Pards after a few setbacks.
With CP / AD, we now have the foundations of building up the club again, and need to find players who want to achieve things with us.
Jackson is a good example, and for me, he should be skipper next year. Wagstaff is another - but he needs quality coaching to improve his all round game.
Solly, Fry and Mambo are all good prospects.
Francis - is only a maybe, and so is Reid,
Stavrinou, Jenkinson and Tuna don't exactly set the place on fire.
Several will go - based on age, contracts, or just simply not doing it for us :
Dailly, Docherty, Semedo, Racon, Llera, Benson, Anyinsah, Fortune, McCormack, Youga.
As for keepers:
Elliot is not improving and Worner couldn't catch a cold.
BWP scores goals in this division and we need him for the time being.
So as you can see, we have a big rebuilding job to do and decent replacement players don't all come along at the same time.
After defeat by Exeter, you could see that we just don't have the quality to give teams a tough game.
We should stay with CP now because he fits the profile of a manager that has brought us success in the past, and another change of boss sends out a bad message.
Brighton and the spanners both got out of L1 by appointing a decent boss and finding cheap or free, ambitious players.
Our fans have to grit our teeth and admit that we are not a big club, and we won't even be a big scalp for teams in this division next year.
But we know that he is Charlton through and through and is suffering as we are. We cannot and must not desert him in his hour of need. Curbs had a worse run than this and we stuck by him. Changing managers again will acheive nothing. He's one of us and I can't wait to see that smile back on his face again.
However to change managers again now would not be the sensible option......we need to give CP his opportunity to manage his team....a team he has put together to play football the way he wants to play it....it is quite clear that many of the current squad are not up to it, be that because of lack of ability or passion for the style of play....I dont know, but CP, it would appear, doesnt want to pay 'hoof-ball', something we were complining about under Mr Parkinson.....so he is trying to change it.
We have a new board who stated from the start that promotion this season would be a 'bonus' not an absolute requirement and now, it would appear, have also intimated (although whether this is true or not I dont know) that there will be a big change of players this coming summer, now what that actually means we can only wait and see, but we will see in just a few months.
The need however is for CP to ensure we are not in a relegation fight between now and the end of the season, and to that end, he may have to forego his 'style' of play and let our current squad play to its strengths (how ever low they maybe), and hope to get Jacko, Anyinsah and Doc back in the team asap.
We have 11 games to go, we are 9 points above the dreaded relegation places with games in hand, the play-offs are gone, so lets stick with CP hope that our better players come back sooner rather than later, and the squad find the 'spirit and fight' to grind out 3 or 4 wins to ensure safety.
Let CP rebuild the team in the summer and see what next season brings, you never know we could be pleasantly surprised......if not...then the time to judge CP will be Nov/Dec next season, but for now lets give him our support from near or far.....everyone in any walk of life deserves time to work in their style and with their team.....lets see what he can do!
Not sure those spitting abuse at CP and the players yesterday will agree, for what its worth summer 2011
Jenkinson ? Are you mad mate. He's the only reason my sanity has stayed intact over the last month or so. Whilst we have players like Jenks, Solly, Cousins, Harriott coming through there is hope. And Clubs like Arsenal don't keep tabs on players like Jenkinson if they are no good.
I was not in the Parky out camp because I recognised that he'd been given the unenviable task of managing decline, and I am definitely of the view that CP deserves our full support. I don't think there's much he can do this season with the materials at his disposal, so he deserves a proper crack at it next year.
We just have to hope that some of the wastes of space currently wearing red shirts have enough pride to ensure that we get the points necessary for our survival.
When he came in, we were fourth and comfortably in the play off positions. I know there were some very poor performances and results prior to this, but in this league the lower teams are always likely to turn someone over now and again. 90% of all the managers in this league would have loved to have the Charlton squad at the start of the season!
As for the players not trying because they are out of contract at the end of the season, well this is the lamest excuse I've heard by those trying to defend Powell. If you are a professional footballer and out of contact soon, you should be working your backside off to make sure that you earn another one in the summer ffs!
I don't pretend to know the answer to the mess we are in right now, maybe we should give him time to turn it around, but please don't use daft excuses for the man we have all hero worshipped.
Powell's first 12 games - 4 wins 1 draw 7 defeats
Poyet - 4 wins 2 draws 6 defeats
Not saying that means Powell will definitely turn things around but it shows what can be done. You don't need to spend millions and sign a new squad to go from average side to a very good one at this level.