I'm another in the CP for England camp. I think he's got all the right qualities and could one day be a surprise appointment just as he was a surprise when called up to play for England. You can get 40/1 on him being the next England manager, but I can't help but think that's too soon. England a sure to return from the Ukraine this summer with their tails between their legs and there will be the customary search for a replacement to take over from Moonface. That will be to early for CP who'll be bust planning for our season in the Championship. However, by the time that son-of-Moonface is ready to be replaced after Brazil, we'll be established in the Prem ind Chris will be looking for a fresh challenge. That might be the right time.
If CP ever becomes England manager then he will first have to win something or as a bare minimum be involved in one of the top eight clubs. Can't see it myself unless he truly is remarkable and leaves us for very big things.
CP is absolute class and although he hasn't yet proved himself like Curbs did over a period of time, he has attributes that Curbs lacked. He's a natural showman and he knows how to work the crowd. Curbs would just have walked off yesterday but CP wants to enjoy it with the fans - he seems to know what makes us tick and loves giving it to us. The other thing is he does seem to havea genuine love and respect for the club. With curbs, although he was clearly committed to the Charlton cause and did a fantastic job i always had the feeling that he wasa west ham man doinga job. That may seem unfair but i also didn't like the way he would let speculation linking him with other jobs fester rather than coming out and telling the press that he was happy, this is his club and he's going nowhere. I'm hoping CP will do that. Of course, at some stage he may outgrow us and he is a professional so will want to go as far as he can but i just didn't like the way curbs sometimes left you feeling we were lucky to have him. Maybe we were but he should have 'worked the crowd' better in that respect.
unfair there dan on curbs ....if you go down that route of having to deny speculation at tenuous links then you're doing it every 5 mins and i'm sure if you ask murray, the one who mattered at the time , he would tell you that curbs would give him his word as to what he was doing and that he could not have had a better manager to deal with just look what followed him and i know for a fact murray told curbs why didn't the others take no as no after you left
You may be right morts but it was just the feeling i had and think he could have extinguished a few things a lot quicker. It wasn't a weekly occurrence.
If this was a thread of the Sheffield Wednesday site you lot would be ridiculing it. He's popular because he's in charge for our most successfull season following several terrible seasons and used to play for the club. If Parkinson had turned our fortunes around and we were currently top of the Premiership I am fairly sure he would be our most loved manager ever.
For me CP is at the moment an exciting new affair with a girl you always had a thing for. You know it may bloom into something good and substantial for years to come but for now you're enjoying the ride (ooh matron), hoping for the best and seeing what comes from it.
Your still not 100% over Curbs, the faithful old wifey who stood by you and whilst she possibly got a bit flabby you often wake up screaming in the night wishing you'd fought harder to keep them.
CP certainly helps keep the nightmares at bay though.
Chris Powell is an absolute gent of a man, I get to interview him in the tunnel after games, I become more impressed with the man every time I meet him. I was more than happy with his appointment, appointing Eddie Howe as manager would have been an errror, it needed someone that the supporters would give time to rebuild, could you have seen Howe surviving the back end of last season? A word of caution though, we have won or achieved nothing yet, there is still a long way to go, but you canot ask more from the manager and his players.
Chris Powell is heading up there in the list of most loved.
Would have been an interesting thread to run at the end of last season IMO. There were plenty on here calling for him to go and getting their knickers in a right old twist. Just shows you how much results can influence something that on the face of it is based on emotions.
I think there are just some managers that fit their club very well (like CP)and others that never really seem to settle and give the impression they are passing through, even though it may be a matter of years before that happens.
Well can't ignore what a fantastic job he did in the summer - a team isn't supposed gel as quickly as we have and opposing managers think we have spent millions where as a lot of our buys were from the Jenkinson money and a lot of big earners left. To change a team so substantially with relatively so little is mighty impressive.
You also get a sense that players want to play for him. Ephraim indicated that to his agent he wanted to play for Powell, Ian Wright says what a good manager we have which he obviously gets from BWP.
yes we were all a bit shellshocked with how things went flat last season but the comments were around Chrissy will need to do better (which is obvious really for an untried manager) rather than he needed to go. Fans were supportive and would they have been if it was any other manager - I doubt it. Thank god it was Chrissy and not any other manager is what I say.
Let's not forget that SCP was given "carte blanche" to build his own team. How many directors have ever done that before? This was a unique situation that he grabbed with both hands. Every new player came in as "his player" with his point of view, that was the genius of this whole management team, and how it has worked.
When he was appointed I was VERY sceptical and after the hideous end to last season I was calling for him to be sacked. How wrong was I. He looks to have the unusual ability to combine shrewd man managment with supreme tactical nous, has shown that he can be a tough guy when required, he has chosen his backroom staff very wisely and he is neither a braggart nor a pessimist. Chris Powell deserves to be loved as he is a very very loveable man. I have never met him but the impression he leaves on me is that of a very clever and talented man who knows himself and knows how to get along with other people because he genuinely likes other people and has time for other people, especially those less fortunate and talented than himself. Chris Powell is a commited Christian and is a tremendous advertisement for his faith. Long may he reign as the inspirational manager of CAFC. P.S. ..... I am having a tenner on him to be the next England manager though !!
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Seems to have been left out of a lot of lists of "loved" managers but for me he is right up there in the respect stakes with Powell.
'Charlton Athletic's Chris Powell nutmegged Barcelona's Pep Guardiola on one of a many care jaunts down the left hand side'.
Look what he did on the pitch against the worlds greatest current club manager, can't wait for him to come against him from the sidelines...!!
Tina's song says it al...Simply the Best .
just look what followed him and i know for a fact murray told curbs why didn't the others take no as no after you left
and he's more of a regular visitor to the valley than he is to upton park !
Your still not 100% over Curbs, the faithful old wifey who stood by you and whilst she possibly got a bit flabby you often wake up screaming in the night wishing you'd fought harder to keep them.
CP certainly helps keep the nightmares at bay though.
A word of caution though, we have won or achieved nothing yet, there is still a long way to go, but you canot ask more from the manager and his players.
Chris Powell is heading up there in the list of most loved.
I think there are just some managers that fit their club very well (like CP)and others that never really seem to settle and give the impression they are passing through, even though it may be a matter of years before that happens.
No one comes near
You also get a sense that players want to play for him. Ephraim indicated that to his agent he wanted to play for Powell, Ian Wright says what a good manager we have which he obviously gets from BWP.
yes we were all a bit shellshocked with how things went flat last season but the comments were around Chrissy will need to do better (which is obvious really for an untried manager) rather than he needed to go. Fans were supportive and would they have been if it was any other manager - I doubt it. Thank god it was Chrissy and not any other manager is what I say.
And so say all of us
P.S. ..... I am having a tenner on him to be the next England manager though !!