Charlton Life End of Season Thanks - 2010/11

AFKABartram

Well as we all know, a dire Charlton season is traditionally never fully complete until we dish out our annual list of thank you’s.
 
The forum once again so further growth over the last season, with pageviews rising 10% to 12.4m, and the number of unique visitors to the site rising 48% to 252k. January 4th and the sacking of Parky was our most popular day of the season, with 4,735 unique visitors generating 102,842 pageviews, the first time we topped the 100k mark. The forum was read in 181 countries, a 11% rise.  The average time spend on the site per visit was 11 minutes, with the average amount of pages visited per visit 7.5.
 
Our fundraising challenge for the season was on behalf of the Charlton Upbeats appeal, where we raised £4,000. Many thanks to everyone who pledged money or prizes, and a number of Lifers helped with the organisation. However WSS led the process flawlessly and deserves special recognition. Congratulations to all the prize and dinner winners. I was fortunate to win a place for the dinner and it was humbling to see the good work the Upbeats team undertake, and made us all very proud of our collective contribution.
 
Our annual player sponsorship request was brilliantly received, with 103 lifers pledging just shy of £2k. It enabled us to sponsor 5 players. 
Huge thanks goes to Curb It for all her efforts in co-ordinating the sponsorship, the dinner places, the prizes, collecting money (threatening people!) and congratulations to all you lucky prize winners. Its a great way we provide financial help to the club and i know is well appreciated.
 
Red Midland, ably assisted by Paddy P17, did a sterling job throughout the season with the match threads. Sadly there wasn’t enough victories we would have hoped for, but i know its very much appreciated by those not at the games, particularly the ex-pats.
 
Shirty5 continued to do a fine job with compiling the Predictions League, with 179 participants this season. Having previously compiled it, i know what an onerous task it can be. Congratulations to Supaclive for joining the Hall of Fame.
 
Lancashire Lad was kind enough to takeover the Statbank from me when i was struggling for time, and has done a sterling job compiling a staggering 17,600 player marks over the course of the season. Look out for the bumper edition of season stats over the next week.
 
Cardinal Sin was kind enough to dispel the myth of the CL badges by getting 100 produced from ‘this bloke in China’. Thanks to the Cardinal, and 86 of you who have so far parted cash (reluctantly in some cases) which will help contribute towards site maintenance costs. Its much appreciated, and many more than i originally thought we would offload.
 
Thanks to WSS and Henry Irving for the excellent match previews, which continue to improve in quality imo, and also HI's help in compiling the Valley Party commemerative articles.
 
Thanks to Threadkiller, Johnny Bev, Alex Wright and Sadie for taking lead on the CL Poker Club, with tournaments now so frequent there is one held every 42 minutes :-)

Due to us both suffering from young familyitus and severe increase in work pressures, moderating and maintaining the forum over the last year has proved particularly challenging, our toughest year yet in that sense. Thanks to WSS for his help with certain aspects, and once again a huge apology to anyone impacted by the security problems in April. We have done everything we can to restore a safe, user friendly platform, and while what we currently have isn’t fully ideal, we are actively aiming to bring continued improvements over the next few months.
 
Charlton Life will be five years old in July. It would be great to mark the occasion some how, so if anyone has any ideas, please email me at afka01@googlemail.com.
 
Have a great summer
Danny (AFKA) and Adam (Lookout)

oohaahmortimer

"Look out for the bumber"

 backs against the walls boys

ooooerrrr

AFKABartram

well at least i know you read at least half of it before falling asleep :-)

amended.

T_C_E

Shall we have a party?

Its no good having a football match, you wont pick me

oohaahmortimer

well done to all and special thanks once again to Red Midland and Paddy17 for their updates which are much appreciated all round from the sick charlton perverts, like myself, who can't get enough

Curb_It

So what with Shirty doing the predictions, Lancs Lad the stats, WSS and HI the previews... what are you and Lookie actually doing yourselves?


Just jesting my little friend.  Well done.

Dizzle

A football match, at THE VALLEY!

Plaaayer

Thanks to Dazzler for all his Admin work.

Once again I've done loads of stuff this season that I wouldn't have go to do without this site so cheers lads.

Thanks Curb_it for arranging the sponsorship so well.

Thanks to T.C.E. for standing next to me in the Lib and making me look even more better looking and last but not least thanks to Chris Solly for being such a good friend!

ShootersHillGuru

Thanks to all those who make it CL possible.

LargeAddick

echo the sentiments of SHG, don't know what I'd do without Charlton Life

Redmidland

Appreciate the mention AFKA and oohah - it was my pleasure to do it and my thanks to Paddy 17 for giving the alternative commentary from the oppositions point of view.
My thanks must go to all I met in the Lib club on my only two visits down there for making me feel so welcome and to T.C.E for introducing me to everyone.
Looking forward to doing the match threads again next season....but hopefully with a lot more wins to comment on!!!

If I get back into work I'll let everyone know and my thanks to all again for your kind comments on my situation - and advice - much appreciated.

Cheers and have a great summer!!

Off_it

5 years? Christ, that's wood in anniversary terms. Let's hope we're not all getting spoons next season.

Thanks to everyone concerned for making this site THE place to discuss all things Charlton - and other stuff. The charity/club fundraising efforts are especially commendable. Well played all.

dizzee

Thankyou

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Arise Sir Chris

tom_k

Thanks for putting the effort in and bringing such a great site. I no longer check the official site. As you say it's great for an ex pat to stay in touch wit everything Charlton related and gives me hours of laughs.

keep it up and COYR!

BlackForestReds

Thanks Adam & Danny, and thanks to all the users.

 

Let's hope that next season we have CL's first promotion campaign...

creepyaddick

Cheers Dan & Adam

Great work as usual and have a good summer break

see you all again in August

guinnessaddick

Thanks to all who help run this site, oh and JT for the pics on the new bird on countdown thread.

RedArmySE7

Cheers guys, as mad as it sounds this site has opened many opportunities and I've made friends for life. All that and it's still my only online port of call for all things Charlton.

But a special thanks must go to @Curb_it for making me start today laughing with the line "just jesting my little friend"!

Thank you, much love.

Bedsaddick

Thanks to all and special thanks to the prick that destroyed my laptop with a virus picked up from the old site a couple of months back. Much appreciated .

adamtheaddick

Thanks to the lifers who on the last game of the season walking/stumbling to the ground made me laugh like i havnt for so long with the song sang to to ketters plod mate which proved u dont have to be nasty or racist a little light funny ditty. So after 3 lads...
"we pay for your hats... We pay for your hats... With our council tax we pay for your hats"
cracked me up, thanks all. ATA.

CHG

Thanks to all the people who run CL and make it the fantastic site it is!

Elthamaddick

thanks to everyone mentioned above, still the best forum around and the only one I read.

without it I might actually have to do a bit more work !

Miserableoldgit

Nice speech AFKA.

Would also like to thank Leroy for His ComputerHelp * AdamtheAddick for the pics.

Oh, and (Sir) Henry Irving for being a (Sir).

MoG.

;-)

I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY

Thanks for running a good forum, nice people and maybe one day i can become part of a clique! 

Elthamaddick

forgot to thank JT for the Countdown thread...;o)

JT

I'm struggling to get pictures up and running on this site...

Plaaayer

Sort it Barry........

SheffieldRed

Thanks to all concerned in running the site.

For those of us outside the M25 the site is immensely helpful in giving a picture of what is happening at the club.

Thanks again.

SR

Rob

Yep. I live overseas and this is my number 1 site now for Charlton news.

'If it's happening then it's here'.

Thanks all.   :-)

ShootersHillGuru

Thank you to all those that make this splendid site what it i.

Fanny Fanackapan

Just 3 little words from me, Guys....

 

" Keep it up "