most of the Wembley team played a part in the PL the following season, and weren't disgraced, but then that was a far better team than the current one.
This is very true and the gap then, player quality and money wise, between the prem and the champ was not as wide as it is now. Mere survival for a season or two in the prem for a newly promoted club usually entails spending lots of millions. Norwich and Wigan have done it on a comparitive shoestring, but how long can they last out ?
When you think back to some of the players in that Wembley team, you realise the gap between then and now.
Top players like Mills, Rufus,Kinsella and Mendonca
Charlton stalwarts like Brown, Robinson, Newton, Keith Jones
Experienced top flight pros like Bright and Bowen
Solid pros like Youds
The talented Ilic
Steve Jones, ahem.
The likes of Barness and Mortimer who couldn't make the Wembley team. Morts would walk into the current team!
All top players, but only for that period. The game (and the division itself) has changed so much since then.
I wouldn't say that team are any better than the team we have got now. If they played each other in a one-off game - Charlton 1998 vs Charlton 2012, I think the current lot would beat them based on pace and fitness alone.
People moan about how 'slow' Jackson is, but he's not necessarily slower than someone like Mark Kinsella who did a job for us in the Premier League many years ago.
Yann Kermorgant in 2012 is also a much stronger player than Mark Bright in 1998.
most of the Wembley team played a part in the PL the following season, and weren't disgraced, but then that was a far better team than the current one.
This is very true and the gap then, player quality and money wise, between the prem and the champ was not as wide as it is now. Mere survival for a season or two in the prem for a newly promoted club usually entails spending lots of millions. Norwich and Wigan have done it on a comparitive shoestring, but how long can they last out ?
When you think back to some of the players in that Wembley team, you realise the gap between then and now.
Top players like Mills, Rufus,Kinsella and Mendonca
Charlton stalwarts like Brown, Robinson, Newton, Keith Jones
Experienced top flight pros like Bright and Bowen
Solid pros like Youds
The talented Ilic
Steve Jones, ahem.
The likes of Barness and Mortimer who couldn't make the Wembley team. Morts would walk into the current team!
All top players, but only for that period. The game (and the division itself) has changed so much since then.
I wouldn't say that team are any better than the team we have got now. If they played each other in a one-off game - Charlton 1998 vs Charlton 2012, I think the current lot would beat them based on pace and fitness alone.
People moan about how 'slow' Jackson is, but he's not necessarily slower than someone like Mark Kinsella who did a job for us in the Premier League many years ago.
Yann Kermorgant in 2012 is also a much stronger player than Mark Bright in 1998.
Be a great game to watch and on a one off game any result's possible but there's not a remote chance that the play off team and the first year's Prem team would finish lower than our current sqaud.
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I wouldn't say that team are any better than the team we have got now. If they played each other in a one-off game - Charlton 1998 vs Charlton 2012, I think the current lot would beat them based on pace and fitness alone.
People moan about how 'slow' Jackson is, but he's not necessarily slower than someone like Mark Kinsella who did a job for us in the Premier League many years ago.
Yann Kermorgant in 2012 is also a much stronger player than Mark Bright in 1998.