This is by far and away the least enjoyable season i've followed Charlton. There has obviously been worse season's, but for me personally it has been terrible and the late QPR winner was probably the only real enjoyable moment i witnessed.
Looking back at our 08/09 relegation record, at this point of the season we were bottom, with 8 points less and twelve points from safety. Effectively relegated. Why this season feels worse, i don't whether it is to do with the uncertainty (whereas in 09 in was known for a long time we were going down), or the fact this is off the back of a run of being an 'unhappy club', i really don't know. But for me, its sucked.
What has been your stand out miserable season since you've been following ?
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The team had totally given up well before the final games of the season .
At least this team has some desire.
2008/09 - 2 Managers, Underperfoming Overpaid Players and relegation
2010/11 - 2 managers, underperforming overpaid players and dogshit players and our lowest placed finish in years within the football league.
I was working in Singapore until December so could only watch from afar for the Dowie/Reed period and almost felt it was happening as I wasn't there watching the team.
Then after my redundancy from RBS went travelling in Thailand for a couple of months - first day in Koh Samui watched us beat West Ham 4-0 at Valley, then few days later saw West Ham throw it away at home to Spurs and really thought we were staying up.
Think it was the hope that done it for me.
The departure of the chosen one, I love SCP and still miss him (my 6 year old who hasn't been since Leicester away started singing Chrissy Powells Red Army in the garden yesterday when we were playing football and it hurt having to explain to him that the legend was no longer in charge) , a part of my Charlton love disappeared with him.
The departure of Yann hurts on a much smaller scale than SCP , a player who could do magic and a rare thing in recent times at Charlton someone you wanted to watch and he had passion for the game
Palace doing so well with fans that actually make a genuine decent amount of noise in support of their team
The chance of the scum staying up and us going down is hell
but thats just my current depressed state of mind , beat Bolton and I'll be pulling Rollys Poley
Still a bit of luck and we scrap a couple of wins to stay up we can start afresh in the summer.
Can't wait for it to end.
I remember that game at Fulham as well and a couple of drunken Scottish Charlton supporters singing a version of the hokey cokey celebrating our previous manager Andy Nelson's liking for changing his defensive formations :
' you get your right back in , your left back out
in out in out and switch them all about.
You do the Andy Nelson and move them around.
That's what it's all about
Whoaaa the Andy Nelson '
Although I think the confidence and motivation will go after last night's bodyblow and we will capitulate, nobody can accuse this lot of not putting a shift in unlike Racon et al in 08/09 and old donkeys like Tony Hazell after one more payday in 79/80.
The problem this year is a lack of creativity and strikers worthy of the name. It's obvious but if you don't score you don't win and no matter how good a defence is mistakes will be made eg Wood for Barnsley's first goal.
To be honest 07-08 to 09-10 is a complete blur (despite going to 20-something games in each of them). Mercenary players, virtually no notable signings, terrible football, Phil 'the most depressing man in football' Parkinson, getting the piss ripped out of me by my Swindon Town supporting mate for THAT penalty miss...
That last minute equaliser for Derby in the Monday night game nearly killed me.
That season was more embarrassing as well, as people still expected us to be challenging for promotion