What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.
What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.
No way. Has to be Cup . A Cup win you cant erase - a relegation you can reverse in a season.
What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.
Your looking at Relegation completely the same way as when we went down straight away last time though.
When we were last relegated from the Premiership we'd pretty much lost our best players anyway and we had a bunch of loanees... the next two seasons we spent in League One were on a shoe string budget bringing in Pawel Abbot and in the second year the likes of Bally Smart on a Non-League Non-Contract type basis
This time round we've been backed by a guy who is worth $400m... So we'll be able to rebuild (and should we keep Powell we'll have a Manager who'll know the League and will know how to build a Squad to win it
In Reza we've a Striker who will be at the World Cup and is under Contract who has spent the last couple of years at various Roland clubs so wont be allowed to leave easily, we've also Piotr Pan who could find his feet at L1 for us as he wont go anyway as before signing he'd have seen we're in danger of going down so he wouldnt have signed if he didnt want to play in L1 in the first place
Plus we've the Championship experience of Cousins / Poyet and Lennon just to name a few youngsters to build the Squad around already... Again Roland wont want them to go because he'll want to be in a higher league to get maximum profit out of them
F.A Cup all day long, a once in a life time opportunity. I'd take three more years in league one if I was able to say I saw my team lift that trophy at Wembley, it's not like we'd do it any time soon after.
What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.
Sooner or later Charlton will be relegated to the third tier. It might not be this year (although there's a good chance), it might not be next year, it might not be for a dozen years or more, but one day it will happen. Charlton have won the cup once in a 108 year history; the way that football has developed in the 67 years since we have won, means that the chances are slimmer than ever.
Now, of course, I don't think we will win. I'd be highly surprised if we made the semis, let alone the final. But to be in round five and know that we won't have to play top flight opposition in our next two games, means that we've got a better chance of getting there than we have for decades. In the wild and whacky world of forced-choice hypothetical alternatives, that one shot at the cup is far far more important than remaining in a league we will surely drop from at some stage or another.
What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.
I sure everyone will love telling their grandkids how we avoided relegation in the years to come. My Dad told his kids and his and grand kids about Charlton winning the FA Cup.
Cup. Plus if we did win, there's more incentive for Roland to push top players our way from his other clubs for the distraction of a European campaign.
Cup. A trip to Wembley would be a special experience for the fans and a feather in the cap of SCP (assuming he's still around and whatever else may happen afterwards). We could hardly have wished for an easier route from 3rd round to the semis.
I'm not so sure about this. Winning the cup would be nice. A trip to Wembley, the exposure and glamour. Europa cup next year. But, being consigned to being in L1 again that would soon wear off. If there was a guarantee that it would only be for one season and we would come back stronger then of course I'd go for it. But, without a crystal ball I would say survival is more important and that is what I would prefer if it came down to a straight choice.
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When we were last relegated from the Premiership we'd pretty much lost our best players anyway and we had a bunch of loanees... the next two seasons we spent in League One were on a shoe string budget bringing in Pawel Abbot and in the second year the likes of Bally Smart on a Non-League Non-Contract type basis
This time round we've been backed by a guy who is worth $400m... So we'll be able to rebuild (and should we keep Powell we'll have a Manager who'll know the League and will know how to build a Squad to win it
In Reza we've a Striker who will be at the World Cup and is under Contract who has spent the last couple of years at various Roland clubs so wont be allowed to leave easily, we've also Piotr Pan who could find his feet at L1 for us as he wont go anyway as before signing he'd have seen we're in danger of going down so he wouldnt have signed if he didnt want to play in L1 in the first place
Plus we've the Championship experience of Cousins / Poyet and Lennon just to name a few youngsters to build the Squad around already... Again Roland wont want them to go because he'll want to be in a higher league to get maximum profit out of them
Now, of course, I don't think we will win. I'd be highly surprised if we made the semis, let alone the final. But to be in round five and know that we won't have to play top flight opposition in our next two games, means that we've got a better chance of getting there than we have for decades. In the wild and whacky world of forced-choice hypothetical alternatives, that one shot at the cup is far far more important than remaining in a league we will surely drop from at some stage or another.
As a fan we all want to see us win something, the board may think something else.
Has to be the CUP.
Plus if we did win, there's more incentive for Roland to push top players our way from his other clubs for the distraction of a European campaign.
We can beat weds
We can beat utd
We can beat forest
And then a semi against anyone at wembley I watched wigan beat man citeh there last year its do able
I am not getting carried away with it take each fixture as they come and see where it takes us
Survival