I am actually am quite choked reading some of these posts and the thought of not having the man who has bought a smile to the club again after our dip from the Prem is very disappointing.
A league title, an exciting end to last season and many smiles more (few frowns as well, haha) Maybe things just haven't gone the way they were planned this season and certainly over recent weeks but that's another story.
Chris, when you signed for Charlton I was only 14 and didn't have a clue who you were but now at the age of 30...you are on one the t-shirts that I wear around the house I live. LEGEND - Now and Always!
Wish you much luck for the future even when you will inevitably come up against Charlton with a new team and show us what were missing with a win over us. (well maybe a draw)
Thank you Chris for everything done for the Club as both Player and Manager. You are a Charlton legend. I am very upset, but unfortuantely not surprised (a criticism of our new owner not yourself) by the Clubs decision.
You have given me too many memories to mention. I remenber the Sky Sports interview with you when you first signed in 1998 when they interviewed you in a record shop in Greenwich market, and I instantly formed an opinion that you were a top bloke and a great footballer. What happened between 1998 and 2014 showed that my initial impression had been correct.
The only time I spoke with you was in October 2005 at a mid season friendly away at Exeter - when signing my programme you expressed concern about how I was going to get home as there was no organised club transport, just before Danny Murphy had signed my programme and given it back without saying a word. That the issue of how the people that had travelled to watch the game were going to get home even crossed the mind of a Premiership player about to play a match spoke volumes about you as a man. (Myself and Kev were going to wait for the Paddington sleeper which left Exeter at 2am)
Best wishes for the future and thank you for everything you have done for Charlton
This is a very sad day. Who would have thought on that sunny May day two years ago when we sang that we had our Charlton back that it would end like this? Be assured that your departure does not diminish your standing with us. You were and always will be a legend. I sincerely hope that you achieve the success you deserve and for which you strived so hard and with such dignity at our club. Thank you for taking us on the journey for three fantastic years.
chris, you do not need luck, you will become a top manager and will manage in the premier league in not too long. to all thsoe doubters, if you think anyoen could do better than step up. literally the worst day in supporting charlton. i remember speakign to you when i went to sheff utd in 2011 and you eventually wrote back to me. i asked for a trial and whilst you turned me down you still wrote back. yo udo not need luck as you will do well. thanks for making it fun to support charlton again.
You always behaved like a true gentleman both as a player and manager of Charlton, When you were appointed manager I thought we had returned to true Charlton values.
Thankyou for a great 3 years, you deserve so much more than this and I hope you get it.
Thanks for all your time and effort that you have put in, you have always had the best interests of the club at heart. The 2011/2012 season will forever go down in the history of our great club, not only because we won the league one title but the fashion in which we did it and with a complete new team!!
We have obviously had no money to work with this season and it was always going to be difficult. Unfortunately you have not been helped in the last couple of months by Roland's new way of running football clubs and I respect you even more for sticking to your principles and fighting for what you thought was right for this club.
I don't want you to think that the work you have put in as manager here has gone to waste. That's like saying that our stint in the premier league was a waste because we are no longer there. You have given me so much enjoyment out of supporting my favourite team. It's because of you that for 1,152 days we had our Charlton back.
Whatever the future holds for you, I wish you the very best I have no doubt that you will become a very successful football manager and I am confident that you could become England's first ever black national team coach.
Have just watched the Hartlepool DVD again, what a day that was! Had a tear in my eye at the finish and not just through watching the game. Thanks CP, and as others have said, go out and find a club that will appreciate your unique talent and ability. Quite honestly you're much better off out the mess that is now CAFC. Good luck, you deserve much, much better.
Chris - have so enjoyed watching you play and managing the team - SO SAD the dream is over - will miss that final goodbye at the tunnel entrance - go well & thanks for the memory!
I started supporting Charlton in 2002, and other than the short-lived happiness of beating big teams in the PL or absolutely brilliant rare CAFC displays, up until 2011/2012, there hadn't been too much to cheer about. Two relegations and, probably the most devastating, a play-off semi-final defeat on penalties.
I remember the joy around The Valley when you scored in your final appearance against Coventry with the players holding you up in front of the Covered End and hoped that joy would someday be replicated in the near future and you'd be back in another role one day.
Go ahead to your appointment, didn't see it coming as my passion for a Charlton had subsequently wained but I was absolutely thrilled you were back, and you gave us an amazing subsequent first full season in 2011/2012. I was in first year at uni in Sheffield but still got to see our wins at Bramall Lane and Hillsborough and home games during the Christmas and Easter holidays, including against Wycombe where we were named champions.
However the Hartlepool home game is still my most happiest moment supporting the club. I came back down from Sheffield especially for it, and to see the ground finally packed once again with red and white and all the celebration before the game with thousands of proud supporters, and after the game with your speech and the Covered End chanting back at you "We've got our Charlton back" had me shedding a few happy, proud tears. 10 years on and I genuinely felt I'd come full circle with the club through all the crap and the next 10 years would be much better, hopefully under you for some time.
To finish 9th the following season was again an incredible achievement. This season has been pretty miserable, but it was obvious during preseason with the lack of signings, letting important players from the previous campaign and the problems win contracts meant it was pretty obvious we would struggle to stay up. Both boards have pulled the rug from under your feet, and while some of your selections, tactics and substitutions have angered me, there's only so much you can do when the board are looking to make a cheap buck, you've got an atrocious pitch and aren't being given the resources you want for your squad, so in no way would I blame you for this season.
I thought I was at my lowest ebb on Sunday after getting my hopes up and paying £200 to travel all the way from Spain to watch THAT, but today I'm devastated and have cried a fair bit. I know you'd want us to, but I just can't put money and sit back watching a club which I have little to be proud of anymore, which is now just a small spoke in the wheel and a feeder club for whichever club is performing the best, under a man who cares little for a club legend.
But enough of that. Sir Chris Powell, thank you for everything as a player and manager, you gave me my happiest times supporting the club, you gave me my pride in supporting CAFC back, and you gave us our Charlton back. Good luck in the future, and please come back soon.
Where to start with all the good times....Chris' goal in his final game against Coventry....Coming back to the Valley to bring our Charlton back. Winning League One in spectacular style....Great end to last season.....Did he want to sell strong players - of course not......What does the future hold for our club now......SCP may be gone, but will never be forgotten......GUTTED UPON GUTTED
Goodbye and good luck Chris and all the other staff who are being moved on, a huge part of Charlton has died today as Mr. Charlton walks out of the door, i hope to see you back one day when a sensible owner takes over.
I believe that, given the money, the support of his employers, a decent pitch to play on and sufficient time this season, he would have got the results to keep us up and progress next year. A real legend and great man manager. Our loss will be another's gain in my opinion
After the disappointment of a terrible display at Sheffield I opined in another thread that I thought that Powell might want to consider his position. By that I meant I did not want him to be associated with forthcoming disaster.
In his first full season as manager he was given something approaching adequate resources to challenge for promotion and he romped away with the title. However the financial carpet was then pulled from under him and he was having to make do and mend yet he still managed to finish in the top half achieving a 6-0 away victory and smashing five goals against the eventual champions. This year he has had his plans dismantled and we are in a mess.
Some people have criticised his style of play. I am sure that he would have preferred a slicker approach and given the resources he would have produced that.
His overall record as manager was very good, as a player he was superb. As a bloke representing our club he was quite simply bloody fantastic. He has that very rare combination in football, ability and decency
Legend, thank you! You will always be welcome back in my eyes, and that of all our fans I'm sure. I'm sad your time was cut short unfairly , you will go on to be a great manager (unfortunately with another club) and I wish you all the best.
Thank you Chrissy Powell. You are a legend & a true Charlton man. I was proud to have you as our manager. Hope your next clubs owners treat you as you deserve.
Many years ago I stood outside the back ofvthe stand at the old Valley when we played the last gsme before moving to selhurst park.
We told one of the architects of thr move (Jimmy Hill) that players, managers, owners come and go but the foundation and heart of a football club is it supporters and that should never be forgotten.
Very sad to see you lose your job today but the highest compliment I can pay you is that you are one of us.......the fans
Whilst fans have differing opinions you for a while had the final say
A massive thanks for your obvious passion, pride and style
We wish you well and will look forward to the celebration again one day
Chris you bought success back to Charlton and gave my son something to shout about at school. He always calls real Charlton people proper. Well you are and always will be Proper Charlton. We don't have many legends at Charlton but you are one. You gave me my Charlton back and now somebody is trying to take it away.You know what we ain't going to let that happen.
Dear Chris, over the years you have made my wife very happy, but now she is very sad ;-) You are undoubtedly a talented football person and that rare combination, also a decent man. Charlton are lucky to have enjoyed your services and you will be sorely missed by thousands.
I can only hope that one day you will be back - after all you have never been away for long - but whatever the future holds I wish you all the very, very best.
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A league title, an exciting end to last season and many smiles more (few frowns as well, haha) Maybe things just haven't gone the way they were planned this season and certainly over recent weeks but that's another story.
Chris, when you signed for Charlton I was only 14 and didn't have a clue who you were but now at the age of 30...you are on one the t-shirts that I wear around the house I live. LEGEND - Now and Always!
Wish you much luck for the future even when you will inevitably come up against Charlton with a new team and show us what were missing with a win over us. (well maybe a draw)
Good Luck my man!
Brad
You have given me too many memories to mention. I remenber the Sky Sports interview with you when you first signed in 1998 when they interviewed you in a record shop in Greenwich market, and I instantly formed an opinion that you were a top bloke and a great footballer. What happened between 1998 and 2014 showed that my initial impression had been correct.
The only time I spoke with you was in October 2005 at a mid season friendly away at Exeter - when signing my programme you expressed concern about how I was going to get home as there was no organised club transport, just before Danny Murphy had signed my programme and given it back without saying a word. That the issue of how the people that had travelled to watch the game were going to get home even crossed the mind of a Premiership player about to play a match spoke volumes about you as a man. (Myself and Kev were going to wait for the Paddington sleeper which left Exeter at 2am)
Best wishes for the future and thank you for everything you have done for Charlton
You always behaved like a true gentleman both as a player and manager of Charlton, When you were appointed manager I thought we had returned to true Charlton values.
Best of luck mate
Thanks for all your time and effort that you have put in, you have always had the best interests of the club at heart. The 2011/2012 season will forever go down in the history of our great club, not only because we won the league one title but the fashion in which we did it and with a complete new team!!
We have obviously had no money to work with this season and it was always going to be difficult. Unfortunately you have not been helped in the last couple of months by Roland's new way of running football clubs and I respect you even more for sticking to your principles and fighting for what you thought was right for this club.
I don't want you to think that the work you have put in as manager here has gone to waste. That's like saying that our stint in the premier league was a waste because we are no longer there. You have given me so much enjoyment out of supporting my favourite team. It's because of you that for 1,152 days we had our Charlton back.
Whatever the future holds for you, I wish you the very best I have no doubt that you will become a very successful football manager and I am confident that you could become England's first ever black national team coach.
Thankyou,
Ben Chamberlain
I'm sure you'll be back in management soon
I started supporting Charlton in 2002, and other than the short-lived happiness of beating big teams in the PL or absolutely brilliant rare CAFC displays, up until 2011/2012, there hadn't been too much to cheer about. Two relegations and, probably the most devastating, a play-off semi-final defeat on penalties.
I remember the joy around The Valley when you scored in your final appearance against Coventry with the players holding you up in front of the Covered End and hoped that joy would someday be replicated in the near future and you'd be back in another role one day.
Go ahead to your appointment, didn't see it coming as my passion for a Charlton had subsequently wained but I was absolutely thrilled you were back, and you gave us an amazing subsequent first full season in 2011/2012. I was in first year at uni in Sheffield but still got to see our wins at Bramall Lane and Hillsborough and home games during the Christmas and Easter holidays, including against Wycombe where we were named champions.
However the Hartlepool home game is still my most happiest moment supporting the club. I came back down from Sheffield especially for it, and to see the ground finally packed once again with red and white and all the celebration before the game with thousands of proud supporters, and after the game with your speech and the Covered End chanting back at you "We've got our Charlton back" had me shedding a few happy, proud tears. 10 years on and I genuinely felt I'd come full circle with the club through all the crap and the next 10 years would be much better, hopefully under you for some time.
To finish 9th the following season was again an incredible achievement. This season has been pretty miserable, but it was obvious during preseason with the lack of signings, letting important players from the previous campaign and the problems win contracts meant it was pretty obvious we would struggle to stay up. Both boards have pulled the rug from under your feet, and while some of your selections, tactics and substitutions have angered me, there's only so much you can do when the board are looking to make a cheap buck, you've got an atrocious pitch and aren't being given the resources you want for your squad, so in no way would I blame you for this season.
I thought I was at my lowest ebb on Sunday after getting my hopes up and paying £200 to travel all the way from Spain to watch THAT, but today I'm devastated and have cried a fair bit. I know you'd want us to, but I just can't put money and sit back watching a club which I have little to be proud of anymore, which is now just a small spoke in the wheel and a feeder club for whichever club is performing the best, under a man who cares little for a club legend.
But enough of that. Sir Chris Powell, thank you for everything as a player and manager, you gave me my happiest times supporting the club, you gave me my pride in supporting CAFC back, and you gave us our Charlton back. Good luck in the future, and please come back soon.
Ollie
Thank you for the smiles and the very best of luck at whichever team is lucky enough to get you as their gaffer!
In his first full season as manager he was given something approaching adequate resources to challenge for promotion and he romped away with the title. However the financial carpet was then pulled from under him and he was having to make do and mend yet he still managed to finish in the top half achieving a 6-0 away victory and smashing five goals against the eventual champions. This year he has had his plans dismantled and we are in a mess.
Some people have criticised his style of play. I am sure that he would have preferred a slicker approach and given the resources he would have produced that.
His overall record as manager was very good, as a player he was superb. As a bloke representing our club he was quite simply bloody fantastic. He has that very rare combination in football, ability and decency
Good luck Chris Powell.
Thank you so much Sir Chris. Can't really say much more as I'm still in denial. So wrong.
We told one of the architects of thr move (Jimmy Hill) that players, managers, owners come and go but the foundation and heart of a football club is it supporters and that should never be forgotten.
Very sad to see you lose your job today but the highest compliment I can pay you is that you are one of us.......the fans
Whilst fans have differing opinions you for a while had the final say
A massive thanks for your obvious passion, pride and style
We wish you well and will look forward to the celebration again one day
I'll miss that massive winning grin
All the best in your future football career
The place just won't be the same
You are undoubtedly a talented football person and that rare combination, also a decent man. Charlton are lucky to have enjoyed your services and you will be sorely missed by thousands.
I can only hope that one day you will be back - after all you have never been away for long - but whatever the future holds I wish you all the very, very best.