How can anyone ask the question, it has to be survival .I don't want to watch the likes of Oldham and Tranmere park the bus again.
There are some big Championship level clubs in L1 who are likely to still be there next season such as Bristol City,Coventry ,Preston and Sheffield United , it could be a big ask to clamber up again at the first attempt.
Not read the other posts, but anyone who prefers survival must surely have been born much more recently than I, who remembers the day when the excitement built up to the final for a full week before, and the only question on cup final day wasn't 'shall I bother' but 'Moore or Motty?'.
How can anyone ask the question, it has to be survival .I don't want to watch the likes of Oldham and Tranmere park the bus again.
There are some big Championship level clubs in L1 who are likely to still be there next season such as Bristol City,Coventry ,Preston and Sheffield United , it could be a big ask to clamber up again at the first attempt.
Are you serious??? Bothered about playing some shot teams over a cup win? Lol I would love to live in your world. How can anyone boy prefer to win a trophy??? Funny how some peoples mind works. Football is all about winning cups
Cup for me. I want us to win the FA Cup in my lifetime, we may not get a better chance. In the next thirty years, taking me to 80, we will get promoted and relegated a few times but who remembers that? A Cup Final win would be an historic, euphoric occasion so it's a no brainer for me.
(Jimmymelrose will be surprised at the above but we are having a shit season, it's likely to get shittier so I want something that can shake us out of our malaise and bring back the feral good factor).
We look back at 1947 being our only major honour. 1947! - of course you should take the cup - we would always get back up the league sooner or later. However, thankfully it isn't a choice - you can have both.
Cup. It could well be our last chance to progress as the big boys are all spending so much money that in the coming years it will become so difficult for the football league clubs to compete.
As I have mentioned before the best seasons are the promotion ones. We arent going up to the premier so we need a relegation to get a promotion! So def CUP
Totally academic argument cos neither is measurably likely: Winning the FACup would be a once in a lifetime experience for followers of a club this size and worth a couple of relegations at least but there is no chance what so ever. In the tiny chance we beat the wendies and their noisier neighours you just know we'll get Hull or Wigan in the semi and losing to one of them at wembley will be an expensively disappointing day out. Charlton's chance of beating anyone else left in the draw is obviously zero. With the ludicrous scheduling of the rearranged wendies fixture (english fa having invited platini's crooked mob for one up the garry) Powell will have to rotate the squad for the monday night match - anyone with any sort of niggle or knock can't be risked on that time frame. Our "first eleven" is ropey enough so the b-team he'll have available for the cup match will do well to keep the wendies from a cricket score. Powell's focus has to be on escaping relegation even though all he'll get for that is a slightly better looking CV as he seeks alternative employment after June.
Put it this way - if and when we go down I'd be seriously disappointed for a couple of weeks. A few weeks later I'll be looking forward to the new season. If we won the Cup, I don't think I'd stop smiling for a year.
cup without a doubt. hopefully the extra money and momentum would get us promoted back the next year as well. Won't happen but we can dream, it's partly what football is about.
I'd take relegation and a Cup Final appearance now. I know that I'll live to see Charlton go both up and down again. But I doubt that I'll ever see Charlton in a FA Cup Final.
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How ironic that people complain we never have a cup run, never take cup seriously. Yet when we have an opportunity to do so, we turn our noses up!!
I don't wanna go down, just as much as anyone else, but I doubt I will see us in many finals in my lifetime
There are some big Championship level clubs in L1 who are likely to still be there next season such as Bristol City,Coventry ,Preston and Sheffield United , it could be a big ask to clamber up again at the first attempt.
Not read the other posts, but anyone who prefers survival must surely have been born much more recently than I, who remembers the day when the excitement built up to the final for a full week before, and the only question on cup final day wasn't 'shall I bother' but 'Moore or Motty?'.
(Jimmymelrose will be surprised at the above but we are having a shit season, it's likely to get shittier so I want something that can shake us out of our malaise and bring back the feral good factor).
Anything less will show just how bad a manager Powell is.
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Its the cup all day long for me and if we do it I might retire. All football ambition fulfilled (oh and seeing us win at The Den)
It could well be our last chance to progress as the big boys are all spending so much money that in the coming years it will become so difficult for the football league clubs to compete.
With the ludicrous scheduling of the rearranged wendies fixture (english fa having invited platini's crooked mob for one up the garry) Powell will have to rotate the squad for the monday night match - anyone with any sort of niggle or knock can't be risked on that time frame. Our "first eleven" is ropey enough so the b-team he'll have available for the cup match will do well to keep the wendies from a cricket score. Powell's focus has to be on escaping relegation even though all he'll get for that is a slightly better looking CV as he seeks alternative employment after June.
If we won the Cup, I don't think I'd stop smiling for a year.