Do yourself a favour and put football to one side and dont take it as seriously as you have been. The mentality of "will we stay up" has changed nearly every week, from saturday, to tuesday, but now, our last result is too much of a low blow. We are still 'in it', but, I just cant see it happeneing for us.
I also, in a way, dont think we are good enough to stay up which lessens the heartbreak for what I now believe is an inevitable outcome.
Our key players such as Jackson dont deserve the relegation cloud abover their heads as they have been great and have put in every effort possible and played for the shirt etc.
Im not actually throwing in the towel here, there are still games to play, but Millwall appear to be getting results here and there, and those other teams around us are getting the odd victory. We have picked up wins ourselves, but for me, what does it, is the performance away at Brighton that puts a giant R next to our name in the league table.
I have good memories of Rochdale away...sigh
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Yeovil have left too much to do.
Barnsley are crap, and although they beat us, i can't see them getting as lucky against other teams.
So its us, the scum, blackpool, doncaster for that last spot, with us having a game in hand.
Obviously it means nothing if we play like last night, but i still think we can do it. Just.
"Im not actually throwing in the towel here"
Don't sound much like it !!
Rochdale pies were awesome.
As said a couple of weeks ago, the picture changes with every single game. Everyone is peed off with different factors individually contributing to that, but above all else that we didn't take advantage of what was a golden opportunity last night to make the picture look a lot more positive.
Doesn't mean that's it though.
They've Leeds next at home on Saturday which they might win.. but Leeds won against Blackpool after the takeover so could get the three points.
Fortunately, only 3 teams can go down - and we're just outside of that bottom three (with a game in hand) for a reason.
We can't score, but to date we've shown we're slightly better than three others. Lets hope it lasts til the end of the season. And before anyone else says "NO, WE'RE GOING DOWN!!"......there are supporters of at least 3-4 other clubs saying EXACTLY the same.
I'm just hoping its done before the last game because if its anything like Blackpool v Charlton 'winner stays up' I WILL have a heart attack at Bloomfield Road
RD obviously doesn't want to pay high wages as he wants to break even & players,agents & potential managers will see Charlton as a club in decline.
Really hope I am wrong but we need to face the facts, it will be a struggle whatever league we are in next season unless RD digs deep & pays above the odds to get players in, from what I have seen, don't hold your breath.
Norwich (who went up again the following season)
Leeds
Southampton (who had an administration deduction, but had a team including Lambert, Fonte and Lallana)
Millwall under Jackett
A very good Swindon team including Charlie Austin
Plus the likes of Huddersfield and Brighton...
Pope
Solly
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Wiggins
Wilson
Cousins
Jackson
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Reza
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Is a core of a good team add to the some decent strikers and wingers along with and couple of great youth players we have it ain't all bad .
And even players like church , green and Pritchard would be good in league 1 as seen when we was last there.
a) They may not get another point.
b) Who in their right mind would want to be a spanner.
A lot of big teams have gone down to league one (saints, Norwich, leeds etc) but they've all bounced back and stayed away. When I was a kid I thought of Charlton as a premiership team, but as I've got older I realised upper mid table championship might be our natural position, perhaps with a few pushes for the play-offs. I never thought we'd be a championship yo-yo club.
Therefore, I'm well up for it.
Apart from the other 40-odd games.
Instead, I slept it off, went to work and now have a chance to reflect on what was. Retrospectively, I don't think we played that badly and do think that the game was there for the taking. We cannot finish. It's as simple as that. However I do agree with a lot of the posts about the other relegation rivals in that we are not the worst by a long chalk.
There is, I believe, more of a chance that the likes of Yeovil, Barnsey, Blackpool and Millwall will drop through the trap door given there final few games and crap record. And, like most, there was almost an expectancy in me last night that we would trash Barnsley which made the defeat that much harder to take.
The 'angry managers' that surround me were out in force last night and albeit Harriot had a mare of a game, none of our players deserve the abuse they were getting last night.
This is by no means a RTS opinion, and all we can do is support the boys till the last game. I do believe that we will survive the drop and build for a stronger squad in the summer. If we go down then so be it, but I for one will still be supporting the club and the team next season.
Or be sent to Coventry.
Or ask (with a snigger) the train ticket lady 'How much is it to Oldham?'
Or dejectedly peruse the concrete cow crap that is Milton Keynes.