That is because CAFC are Aving it! Ave it at City and Ave it against Reading! Then all the way to staying up - not cockiness but upforitness! We have to believe.
Pards, Kins, Parks - would you swap those three for anyone else in the bottom half of the league? I bloody wouldn't.
Huddersfield press conference with an empty seat shown on Sky just now. Their chairman wasn't best pleased but accepted it in reasonable fashion I suppose.
Apparently we made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Not been mentioned or I've missed it if it has but with Pardew having left Reading in the way he did and Parkinson being an ex-Reading captain the Reading fans will be up for it on Monday. Maybe a bit of stick aimed at Pardew will get the Charlton fans making more noise as well. APRAWA WASU C'mon!
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Not been mentioned or I've missed it if it has but with Pardew having left Reading in the way he did and Parkinson being an ex-Reading captain the Reading fans will be up for it on Monday. Maybe a bit of stick aimed at Pardew will get the Charlton fans making more noise as well. APRAWA WASUC'mon!
didnt think of that henry good point. I know that the reading fans love parky, but will give pards some stick! Could be a good un this, atmosphere wise anyway! Anyone no if reading took the full allocation, i guess they have, but i aint sure!
BTW, parky will be our next manager locked on. I'd be pleased with that.
Huddersfield fans giving Parky and CAFC lots of stick on their rivals board. Appears we're not a role model club anymore and they hope we go down. Meanwhile Parky has no integrity and is totally to blame. Oh Dear!
Not dismissing your thinking, but haven't we got more immediate things to deal with? For this situation right now we have the best management team, I'm backing them.
unbelivable offer ? Club site doesn't say that he has signed any sort of contract and yet it seems we have offered terms on a permanent deal. Unless of course Pards does walk away ........
i keep reading on here about pardew leaving,but i seem to have completely missed why so many people believe that he will. could someone fill in the gaps for me please!
As far as I know Parky only had a contract until the end of the season and so reasonably he/his agent has been touting his name about, reading between the lines it looks like he perhaps has used this job offer to get Charlton to commit to a contract extension - and fair enough. Whatever if Pards and the club are happy with the job that he'd been doing then so am I.
i reckon its a not to be sniffed at bonus if we stay up and a lucrative 3 to 4 year contract if we do...
if he started talking to huddersfield before the last couple of wins then that made sense as a career move/insurance policy...but now, why move on when whats on the table is potentially miles better...and, if it comes to it, with no disrespect to them, there's bound to much better jobs than the division one huddersfield role on the table come the summer...lets face it, he could have had the charlton premiership manager one last summer by all accounts...
[quote][cite]Posted By: PeakeysRocket[/cite]i keep reading on here about pardew leaving,but i seem to have completely missed why so many people believe that he will. could someone fill in the gaps for me please![/quote]
Speculation that a bigger club will see what a great job Pardew has done/is doing and offer him a job. Looking at the EPL the chances of vacancies at most clubs are slim: Man U - maybe if Fergie wins the EPL this year plus the FA Cup and/or Champion's League then he might retire, that creates a vacancy with say Mark Hughes taking over. Would Pardew want to manage Blackburn? Chelsea: rumours abound that Jose will be off to Real Madrid and that a new manager will come in that creates a knock-on vacancy elsewhere. Arsenal - can't see Wenger leaving just yet, similarly Benitez at Liverpool. Jol looks ensconced at Spurs. Bolton - possible vacancy if McClaren resigns/sacked and Big Sam gets the job. Man City - possible that Stuart Pearce might leave/get sacked. Aston Villa - MO'N might be offered the England job if McClaren steps down. Other possible vacancies include West Ham and Reading (if Coppell is offered the England job) but I can't see either ex-employer bringing him back.
Other than that I can't see any other real vacancies on the horizon, I think the speculation is our traditional pessimism - that we think Pardew is too good for us and will walk at the first sign of a decent job offer. I think he'll stay for at least another season, career wise there is no sense in him leaving for another mid-table club, here he knows he has a great chairman and board behind him who've backed him from day one - not all other clubs are quite as supportative. When/if he does go the chances are that he'll take Parky with him, but by then Kinsella might be ready for management.
thanks very much bfr.i can't see him going really either and just wondered wether he had said anything himself about jumping at the first opportunity.if we are to go down,i am sure charlton see him as the perfect manager to steer us back up and will more than make it his while to stay.
Even if we stay up there is no way Pardew will be going anywhere until the end of his current deal (I doubt Murray will have any more of the, "You must have two years on your contract," stuff after the post-Curbs debacle. Even then, I expect Pardew to be here for a long time because, quite simply, Charlton are probably one of the best clubs in the Premiership to work for. Why? Well, its one of the few clubs where the chairman/CEO keep well out of the way 99.9% of the time and let the manager control the playing side 100% and, especially after the failed Dowie/Reed management structure, Pardew has got complete control in the way he did not have at Reading or West Ham. I reckon Pardew really sees some great possibilities at Charlton, especially if we get the capacity up to 40,000, and knows that a move to a big club is not just unlikely but could be a bad move until he has done at least five years in the Prem with us and establishes himself as a proven top flight manager like Allardyce.
i dont think he will move on...i think a south london club or one with an easy commute may be what he prefers...hasn't his career been in and around south/south west london (even reading was probably an easy commute, as would have been west ham)...i think i once read he grew up in/around wimbledon (i saw him in a bar there the week leading up to his appointment, at a charity WAGS do when i gave it the obigatory 'when you coming to sort out charlton then' as he ignored me/didn't hear in the noise and walked up to the two older women next to me that he clearly knew to say hello)...the o/s says he started at dulwich...we know he played for palace and us...who else ?...anybody know where he lives ?
so a club within a reasonable commute probably does suit...look at curbs...all those years and he didn't want to move...i always reckoned that if spurs or ipswich had come in for him he would have been tempted...he probably only took the west ham job this time because he was out of work and not used to the feeling and getting on his missus's nerves being around the house and more likely the commute to the west ham training ground is an easy one for him...
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Huddersfield fans giving Parky and CAFC lots of stick on their rivals board. Appears we're not a role model club anymore and they hope we go down. Meanwhile Parky has no integrity and is totally to blame. Oh Dear!
Bollocks to 'em.
My only memory of Huddersfield (easily forgettable), is their fans clapping and cheering as Eddie Youds was stretchered off with a career ending knee injury.
[cite]Posted By: PeakeysRocket[/cite]i keep reading on here about pardew leaving,but i seem to have completely missed why so many people believe that he will. could someone fill in the gaps for me please!
there isn't, as far as i can see it has just been me.
Just have a gut feeling Pardew will not be here next season, but am not going to mention it again, and from this moment forth i shall drain all form of negativity from my body !!
[cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]
Just have a gut feeling Pardew will not be here next season, but am not going to mention it again, and from this moment forth i shall drain all form of negativity from my body !!
Good man. Go on, detox smoothies, pints of water, get it out of you!
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Pards, Kins, Parks - would you swap those three for anyone else in the bottom half of the league? I bloody wouldn't.
Apparently we made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
didnt think of that henry good point. I know that the reading fans love parky, but will give pards some stick! Could be a good un this, atmosphere wise anyway! Anyone no if reading took the full allocation, i guess they have, but i aint sure!
BTW, parky will be our next manager locked on. I'd be pleased with that.
is that in between our own fans bickering?
Yes, unfortunately
1. happy to stay number 2 here ?
2. will be our manager next season ?
Not dismissing your thinking, but haven't we got more immediate things to deal with? For this situation right now we have the best management team, I'm backing them.
Happy as a number 2 for the time being, you're full of the joys of spring at the moment AFKA
Agreed though, i think we have the best management team at the moment for a very long time. The longer it stays that way, the better in my eyes.
unbelivable offer ? Club site doesn't say that he has signed any sort of contract and yet it seems we have offered terms on a permanent deal. Unless of course Pards does walk away ........
if he started talking to huddersfield before the last couple of wins then that made sense as a career move/insurance policy...but now, why move on when whats on the table is potentially miles better...and, if it comes to it, with no disrespect to them, there's bound to much better jobs than the division one huddersfield role on the table come the summer...lets face it, he could have had the charlton premiership manager one last summer by all accounts...
Speculation that a bigger club will see what a great job Pardew has done/is doing and offer him a job. Looking at the EPL the chances of vacancies at most clubs are slim:
Man U - maybe if Fergie wins the EPL this year plus the FA Cup and/or Champion's League then he might retire, that creates a vacancy with say Mark Hughes taking over. Would Pardew want to manage Blackburn?
Chelsea: rumours abound that Jose will be off to Real Madrid and that a new manager will come in that creates a knock-on vacancy elsewhere.
Arsenal - can't see Wenger leaving just yet, similarly Benitez at Liverpool.
Jol looks ensconced at Spurs.
Bolton - possible vacancy if McClaren resigns/sacked and Big Sam gets the job.
Man City - possible that Stuart Pearce might leave/get sacked.
Aston Villa - MO'N might be offered the England job if McClaren steps down.
Other possible vacancies include West Ham and Reading (if Coppell is offered the England job) but I can't see either ex-employer bringing him back.
Other than that I can't see any other real vacancies on the horizon, I think the speculation is our traditional pessimism - that we think Pardew is too good for us and will walk at the first sign of a decent job offer. I think he'll stay for at least another season, career wise there is no sense in him leaving for another mid-table club, here he knows he has a great chairman and board behind him who've backed him from day one - not all other clubs are quite as supportative. When/if he does go the chances are that he'll take Parky with him, but by then Kinsella might be ready for management.
Even then, I expect Pardew to be here for a long time because, quite simply, Charlton are probably one of the best clubs in the Premiership to work for. Why? Well, its one of the few clubs where the chairman/CEO keep well out of the way 99.9% of the time and let the manager control the playing side 100% and, especially after the failed Dowie/Reed management structure, Pardew has got complete control in the way he did not have at Reading or West Ham.
I reckon Pardew really sees some great possibilities at Charlton, especially if we get the capacity up to 40,000, and knows that a move to a big club is not just unlikely but could be a bad move until he has done at least five years in the Prem with us and establishes himself as a proven top flight manager like Allardyce.
so a club within a reasonable commute probably does suit...look at curbs...all those years and he didn't want to move...i always reckoned that if spurs or ipswich had come in for him he would have been tempted...he probably only took the west ham job this time because he was out of work and not used to the feeling and getting on his missus's nerves being around the house and more likely the commute to the west ham training ground is an easy one for him...
Bollocks to 'em.
My only memory of Huddersfield (easily forgettable), is their fans clapping and cheering as Eddie Youds was stretchered off with a career ending knee injury.
Classy bunch.
there isn't, as far as i can see it has just been me.
Just have a gut feeling Pardew will not be here next season, but am not going to mention it again, and from this moment forth i shall drain all form of negativity from my body !!
Good man. Go on, detox smoothies, pints of water, get it out of you!
He's obviously still bitter about the 7-6 game.