obviously im gutted by this but this may not be too bad in the long run. just think about it, RD brings someone in who is going to comply with his ideas and plans for the club, everyone is then pulling in the same direction and we fly up the league.
As soon as his visit to Bromley Addicks was blocked, you felt they didn't trust him fully. Do you think it could be rescheduled to get his side of the story? Thanks SCP, sorry it had to end this was.
Gutted for CP as he loved Charlton and was a legend here. I have a bit of sympathy for RD as he obviously does not want to get relegated and has taken the step of changing things in the hope the players have a reaction. I loved CP as a person but some of his team selections were a bit confusing and how we played was a bit defensive. Maybe if the owner did nothing we would still go down. Same with Yann I would not have sold him but we had been struggling all season to score goals even with him and maybe RD thought let's freshen it up and change things. I think the old owners were more to blame than RD as all we needed in the summer was to bring a few players in and sort some contracts out and we would have been fine this season. We had a sinking ship then that CP tried to keep afloat but the writing was on the wall. To me that was the start of the problems and they just carried on from there. Only having 1 forward was a joke and getting Church and Sordell last minute. If MS and TJ were still in charge I am pretty certain we would have been fearing relegation and administration and things being a whole lot worse. Let's give the new manager and owner a chance and see what the future brings. Changes happen in football but like I said I blame MS and TJ. Let's support the TEAM on Wednesday as with a win and new ideas we can still stay up. Stay positive and don't give up we can if it. COYR!!!!
I'll probably get shot down for this but who cares, I am Very sorry to see him sacked but really not as gutted as some of you here, yes he is a club legend, but if it was anyone else they would have been sacked a long time ago. I do understand he hasn't been given any funds to spend but how can you give funds to a man who gets his team playing such dire football? Not seen us win a game comfortably for a very long time. Good luck in the future Powell but we are here to support the club not the manager.
Agreed, not RD's fault that our best players were out of contract when he took over, and it seems that from the interest in Gradel/S Jackson that we had intentions to bring in good replacements. Powell has continued playing 'his' players, with the new boys watching from the sides, and things simply haven't improved.
obviously im gutted by this but this may not be too bad in the long run. just think about it, RD brings someone in who is going to comply with his ideas and plans for the club, everyone is then pulling in the same direction and we fly up the league.
(trying to look for positives...)
But how, as fans, can we be happy with his plans? We are part of an experiment that leaves us without idendity and make us a laughing stock.
Absolutely gutted. If we were in this position with the squad we had last season, and without the games in hand, then I could see the argument. As it is, whenever he's been supported he has delivered.
Hopefully we'll see him back at some point in the future when this super club network debacle has gone away,
Live is never boring being a Charlton fan, at least we have that...
I'm devastated but not shocked, a bit of me knew as soon as RD bought the club that no matter what happened on the pitch that Chris Powell's days were numbered.
Disgusted at the board for this, mostly in the way that they have straight up lied to the fans about wanting to keep Chris since they bought the club. Well they've lost my trust now.
I can only think him being sacked is for not playing 'Roland's players' too, you can't sack a man for losing an F.A cup quarter final (Yes we may have bottled it but getting that far was a huge bonus). As for being bottom of the league, that at the weekend was out of Powell's hands, he had 4 GAMES IN HAND to turn it around. That's what the board will probably say to justify it though, lies probably.
As for Powell, I hope he goes on to be a top manager in the game, good luck Chris hopefully wherever you end up you'll be treated much better there than you have been here by both boards.
obviously im gutted by this but this may not be too bad in the long run. just think about it, RD brings someone in who is going to comply with his ideas and plans for the club, everyone is then pulling in the same direction and we fly up the league.
(trying to look for positives...)
But how, as fans, can we be happy with his plans? We are part of an experiment that leaves us without idendity and make us a laughing stock.
im sure if his plans take us back to the premier league and are successful like they have been at standard liege a lot of our fans will be happy
Massive shame- great bloke who is and always will be proper Charlton. However, and as much as I love the man, he just wasnt cutting it and in the pro football world this was on the cards. Sunday was the tip of the iceberg with an abject, clueless performance that to be honest was down to his management capabilities. Good luck Chris.....
There will be loads out there laughing their heads off at us right now. We face certain defeat tomorrow, and at Millwall, and certain relegation. I would have bought two season tickets relegation or not, but now this! I am sorry Katrien, I thought you had more class than this, to do it this way and treat Chris Powell so shabbily, still it saves Roland 4mil and will piss off Jimenez so maybe that is your silver lining. We will be watching a team of complete strangers next season if we bother to turn up to see Standard Liege feeder club/training school. Yeah I know Roland, you can say you did the same at Liege and now everybody is happy, well it won't be the same here because Standard Liege did not become anybody's feeder club did they? It is not as bad as it gets either, oh yes, it can get much worse than this believe me, and we will have nothing to sustain us. Nothing. It isn't just the map to Port Vale we need, but the one to Morecombe too, and then it is the big derby with Welling. My stance now is complete hatred for the new regime, complete hatred despite them apparently saving us. Katrien said at the VIP meeting regarding Yann that it is not our decision to make and they own the club now, and of course she is right, we can't afford our club and they can. What we will become is not a football club any more, we will be a side show, an experiment, we will have lower crowds than for the last thirty years, and we will be a laughing stock everywhere. OK Roland and Katrien tell me the positives.
Pissed off that I heard it from a smug Arsenal fan dripping with schaudenfraude and those C****s at the Daily Mail. Thanks Chris - you'll always be a Charlton legend.
Gutted. Good luck Powelly, you will be a big success wherever you end up and this will be our loss.
Need to get behind the team now and pray for some good fortune, this is the worst season we could get relegated in with contracts for Poyet, Hamer, Morro, but also Gomez, Ahearne Grant, Edwards etc all for negotiation in the coming months.
Pissed off that I heard it from a smug Arsenal fan dripping with schaudenfraude and those C****s at the Daily Mail. Thanks Chris - you'll always be a Charlton legend.
I heard it from a palace fan.
I liked this board at first, however I think I'm done caring about CAFC now.
I'll always support them and look out for them but I will no longer be a fanatic
I'm sad to see him go, and don't think he's been treated very well. While I think some of his tactics have been a bit hit and miss, he's always conducted himself with great dignity. Had he not been such a club legend, though, I think this day would have come sooner as our results and performances don't lie. Hope you go onto greater things Chris.
Driving to work trying to take this news in, it feels like I've just heard that a close friend had died. May sound a bit dramatic, but that's how it feels to me
Driving to work trying to take this news in, it feels like I've just heard that a close friend had died. May sound a bit dramatic, but that's how it feels to me
How will players react at tomorrow,s game I wonder?
More to the point which players will be playing? If Cawley is correct and the reason CP has gone is because he would not play RD's players who will pick tomorrows team and who will be selected.?
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(trying to look for positives...)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26524831
I have a bit of sympathy for RD as he obviously does not want to get relegated and has taken the step of changing things in the hope the players have a reaction.
I loved CP as a person but some of his team selections were a bit confusing and how we played was a bit defensive. Maybe if the owner did nothing we would still go down.
Same with Yann I would not have sold him but we had been struggling all season to score goals even with him and maybe RD thought let's freshen it up and change things.
I think the old owners were more to blame than RD as all we needed in the summer was to bring a few players in and sort some contracts out and we would have been fine this season. We had a sinking ship then that CP tried to keep afloat but the writing was on the wall. To me that was the start of the problems and they just carried on from there. Only having 1 forward was a joke and getting Church and Sordell last minute. If MS and TJ were still in charge I am pretty certain we would have been fearing relegation and administration and things being a whole lot worse.
Let's give the new manager and owner a chance and see what the future brings. Changes happen in football but like I said I blame MS and TJ.
Let's support the TEAM on Wednesday as with a win and new ideas we can still stay up. Stay positive and don't give up we can if it. COYR!!!!
Wish Powell all the best for the future and hope RD has made the right choice to change things this late in the season.
Powell has continued playing 'his' players, with the new boys watching from the sides, and things simply haven't improved.
He certainly instilled belief into CAFC.
Good luck Chris and thank you
Hopefully we'll see him back at some point in the future when this super club network debacle has gone away,
Live is never boring being a Charlton fan, at least we have that...
Disgusted at the board for this, mostly in the way that they have straight up lied to the fans about wanting to keep Chris since they bought the club. Well they've lost my trust now.
I can only think him being sacked is for not playing 'Roland's players' too, you can't sack a man for losing an F.A cup quarter final (Yes we may have bottled it but getting that far was a huge bonus). As for being bottom of the league, that at the weekend was out of Powell's hands, he had 4 GAMES IN HAND to turn it around. That's what the board will probably say to justify it though, lies probably.
As for Powell, I hope he goes on to be a top manager in the game, good luck Chris hopefully wherever you end up you'll be treated much better there than you have been here by both boards.
buuuuut...it's probably better for everyone....
aaand...am pretty sure its better for CP himself
Good luck and thanks CP....
We face certain defeat tomorrow, and at Millwall, and certain relegation.
I would have bought two season tickets relegation or not, but now this!
I am sorry Katrien, I thought you had more class than this, to do it this way and treat Chris Powell so shabbily, still it saves Roland 4mil and will piss off Jimenez so maybe that is your silver lining.
We will be watching a team of complete strangers next season if we bother to turn up to see Standard Liege feeder club/training school.
Yeah I know Roland, you can say you did the same at Liege and now everybody is happy, well it won't be the same here because Standard Liege did not become anybody's feeder club did they?
It is not as bad as it gets either, oh yes, it can get much worse than this believe me, and we will have nothing to sustain us. Nothing. It isn't just the map to Port Vale we need, but the one to Morecombe too, and then it is the big derby with Welling.
My stance now is complete hatred for the new regime, complete hatred despite them apparently saving us. Katrien said at the VIP meeting regarding Yann that it is not our decision to make and they own the club now, and of course she is right, we can't afford our club and they can.
What we will become is not a football club any more, we will be a side show, an experiment, we will have lower crowds than for the last thirty years, and we will be a laughing stock everywhere.
OK Roland and Katrien tell me the positives.
Need to get behind the team now and pray for some good fortune, this is the worst season we could get relegated in with contracts for Poyet, Hamer, Morro, but also Gomez, Ahearne Grant, Edwards etc all for negotiation in the coming months.
I liked this board at first, however I think I'm done caring about CAFC now.
I'll always support them and look out for them but I will no longer be a fanatic
Hope you go onto greater things Chris.
He was such a shit manager he got a league 1 team to 9th in the championship.
He deserves better and will get it. Hope all the haters enjoy watching him take his new club to the highest level.
Good luck Chris.