After having managed to get us into the Championship, the next two games are massively important. With apparently little money to spend, they cannot afford to face relegation. If this week goes badly, they will be forced to consider whether they stick with CP or gamble on finding someone who can do better. That's if they can find anyone to take us on. If CP were not a much loved Charlton legend, a lot of Clubs would already be collecting a list of available names. How many supporters are we going to lose if the team continue to play rubbish at home ? It's now frequently discussed that we don't need to have a season ticket any more, we can choose a Stand and unfortunately choose a game that we fancy. There is not much communication from the owners, SOS.
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A few people at the weekend said Paul Hart might get the nod but I would think that would be to the detriment of our youth setup.
I still have faith in Chris Powell but something really does need to happen to stop the rot
Once again the CL hyperbole and panic system goes into overdrive.
Simple truth is we are poor at home and reasonable away. We will have enough point to ensure safety by the time the kids go back to school after the easter break, if not sooner.
At the start of the season everybody (ok, nearly everybody) would have taken a mid-table finish this year. We're online for that, so all this hand wringing and gnashing of teeth really is unnecessary and rather irritating.
A point a game for safety.
Not bad for a newly promoted team with hardly any investment I'd say....
Still not good enough for many here it seems though.
Both of those sound unlikely to me. I can see the team finishing in 22nd getting 48 points at most, and I predict we'll get around 54.
I should know better than to come on here after a lose, it all goes very tabloid. When we win we're world beaters, and when we lose we're hopelessly doomed. It seems we get the press we deserve in the country, sensationalist and reactionary.
If the owners consider Powell the problem then he will go, if they consider the players to be the problem, then provided we escape the drop then I hope Powell stays is furnished with a transfer pot (from somewhere) and replaces 80% of the current squad.
FWIW I really dont know if Powell is totally responsible, what I do know is that the crowds will not be flocking to The Valley because of the third rate hoofball we are playing under Powell.
The season ticket early renewals will be a big indicator to the owners and may persuade them either way!
Dont want a Dowie-Reed-Pardew-Parky situation.
After last season this one (at home at least) has been very disappointing from a football quality perspective
Dennis Wise in.
You read it here first.
Hope to God I'm being paranoid!
The fact is that there is no way we will get anyone better than CP in the near future and we could do a hell of a lot worse. He has the squad achieving at or close to its maximum potential and no money to spend. I think the board have enough sense not to do anything stupid.
I despair, I really do.
The only thing I'm depressed about at the moment is the massive over-reaction of the fans. We've had a bad run, fair enough. But we are comfortably mid-table with a primarily League 1 squad - I don't think we will go down this year, and so many of the people now panicking would have taken a mid-table finish at the start of the season.
Can't help but think that if our home and away forms were reversed, there would be a totally different feel about the place. Other teams know this and take advantage. They come to disrupt our play, knowing full well that if we're not at least 2 goals up inside 25 mins the fans will get restless. And that DOES make a difference. I've heard it straight from the horse's mouth (so to speak) at the Player of the Year Dinner. Also saw it working in our favour at Leicester when their fans did exactly the same.
We (the fans) need to get a grip. I'm not saying that our bad run is the fan's fault, but it IS a contributing factor, whether people care to see it or not. Finally, to the first person that says 'I've paid my money so I've got the right to grumble', I'll give you £20 if I can come to your workplace and shout abuse at you for 2 hours.
OK, rant over...
At no stage whatsoever have the board given any inclination that Powell will be fired, despite people with agendas stirring it up.
I expected better of you Len
Crunch time will come in the summer. Will they spend money? Will they find a buyer? Or will we have to finance ourselves with sales to our key players (Solly)?
If none let him go he deserves better opportunity to push on
If some give it him early
If lots give it him earlier any talk of letting him go is ridiculous
The squad is desperately thin the peobl had not just been SCP and any errors made it is a combination of mistakes, poor decisions by players of limitation
Poor mgmt from board on where this years budget should be spent and where budgets were cut
Sack Powell they may as well sack themselves as its fruitless if you don't support your mgr financially
If they sack him before April 8th people like me wouldn't renew fullstop.
After April 8th they could use the excuse of poor season ticket take up because of poor results.
Not at all what I want I stress once more but, as you say yourself, there are a lot of "agendas."