Best moment of the season was the exit of the gruesome two some if assessed in the long run.
Best pitch moment - jordan cousins winner v forest
Best CL moment...the end to the bickering and sniping
Sadly I don't think it quite has yet. Hopefully once the position of the manager and the squad is sorted out, then we can start looking to the future properly, and really "move on".
Personal favourite moment? Powell swinging on the crossbar at Sheff Weds :-)
1. Winning at Hillsborough to qualify for last 8 of the cup.
2. Winning 3-2 after being 2 nil down against Sheffield Wednesday in the league.
This. As also at both.
Best experience whilst not at a game has to be QPR winner. I was watching on the 'recommended'far eastern tv link and when the ball went in i shouted/roared so loud, my cat (who had been sitting next to me on the sofa) leapt up into the air, Looney Tunes style and shot upstairs.
Oxford at home in the League Cup. Only because it was the only win I got to see live, my only other game being the opening day loss to Middlesboro. And of course it contained that most rare of events, a Simon Church double!
The winner v QPR was great as well, watching on TV with another rare commodity, a Phuket-based QPR fan with head in hands.
Two very rare decent moments that stick in my mind from this largely embarrassing and unethical debacle of a season:
1. Tuesday 1 October v Nottingham Forest. The north upper's defiant response to Fatty Reid's flukey free kick against us. After a momentary pause, they just kept singing as though nothing had happened and everyone followed suit. We knew then we would at least get a point and sure enough, we did. 2. Weds 12 March v Huddersfield. Standing for the dignified and moving tribute to Saint Chris three minutes into the fixture.
I will spare you my worst 100 memories which will not just be automatically wiped out by the enormous relief of avoiding a relegation which should never have been a realistic prospect in the first place.
Just the briefest of reminders though that our previous manager (remember him) was stabbed in the back and (according to newspaper reports) has still has not had his contract honoured, some of our hardest working players are out of work in one weeks time and up until two games ago this was the most inept Charlton attack in living memory. Even the Abbot and Costello show in League 1 had a comedy element. As for the farcical introduction of the uninvited Belgian rejects and the mystery Polish superstar, we can leave that for another thread.
Sorry but my champagne still tastes a little sour and some fans conveniently choose to have very short memories. In my experience, what goes around comes around sooner or later. Lets hope it's not next season.
My two favourite moments both came at the same 'massive' ground. The FA cup win at Hillsborough with SCP swinging on the cross bar was just a great night and I didn't think anything could top it until the league match there, going from the depths of despair to utter jubilation and reminding me just how much I love this club.
It has been really poor this Season, I must admit I have not enjoyed it at all. It started in the Summer when the chuckle brothers did not strengthen the squad, when it was obvious it needed to be done. Some of the football, I use that term loosely,has been truly awful. Some of the worst in my fifty plus years of watching Charlton. Losing Powell was sad but I thought necessary. It is important we kick on as a club. This has been started with the pitch being relayed and hopefully the renovation of the training ground. I like the new owners ideas about a strong Academy which I hope will be the bedrock of the future. What I hope doesn't happen is that we get stuck with inferior SL players like Thuram, KOC, and also players like Nego and PP. What we need are better more experienced Championship players which is going to cost. We also need our best out of contract players like Poyet, Morrison, Dervite and Hamer to be tied to new contracts. It is also the chance to prune the squad of all the players deemed not good enough going forward.
QPR at home as I can't stand their Manager or the Club.
It goes without saying that this has been one of the hardest seasons to follow Charlton. Yet out of it, I have some of the best, most enjoyable memories I think I've had following us. There have been a shed load of lowpoints, but these have made the highlights as exciting, shocking, uplifting, surprising and euphoric as they have been. It's only once you suffer that you appreciate the highs.
Assuming we were never planning on promotion this year and with the benefit of hindsight allowing us to know we would be safe, I genuinely don't think I would change this season - I certainly wouln't want to sign up for this every year! But for the one off experience, I'd take the thrill of the relgation scrap and the forging of such iconic moments through the doom and despair. The emergence of youth players, last minute winners, unexpected goalscorers, takeovers, pantomime heroes/villains...it's been a great, if not unconventional season.
I pity the teletext fans. The sky go armchair supporters. The glory hunters who skip between PL sides. They can never understand what it feels like to follow a football team. They will never witness or take in nights like Tuesday. We may have been a fairly terrible team this year, but this team has provided a football experience that us fans won't forget in a hurry.
I don't get to see too many games, but the highlights that I witnessed were:
1) Playing at Welling on a nice sunny day after arriving in UK that morning 2) A spirited performance against Birmingham that ended in defeat 3) The emergence of Poyet and Cousins
Add to that:
4) The hope that the youngsters both stay and continue to progress and that some experience is brought in to strengthen the side in the known weak areas 5) The fact that we managed to scramble out of the bottom three - I think we have made a mixture of good luck and bad luck, but it could have gone either way from what I have seen.
1. Jackson vs. QPR 2. Sordell hat-trick at Hillsborough 3. Harriott's brace vs Watford 4. Finally getting rid of Slater and Jiminez 5. Jose Riga's speech after the Watford game
As there is bound now to be a lowpoint post too, here are mine -
1. SCP sacking 2. Losing Yann and Stephens 3. The G21 calling out RD 4. Missing the Bramall Lane quarter final 5. The Valley performance vs. Millwall
Penalty save at Leeds, the comeback at Hillsborough (Up with our BIG mouths, we're staying up with our BIG mouths), Last minute winners against QPR and Bournemouth, Sealing survival against Watford. Yann's free kick-kick at Oxford. Jacko equaliser at Ipswich. Winning at Blackburn again.
Lows: Missing out on going to the New Wembley, Yann leaving, SCP leaving.
I honestly can't see unless you wasn't there Tuesday how it wasn't the Watford game a brace for one of our youngsters an assist for another plus the captain scoring a massive goal and all of that to make us safe from relegation what a game it was and will be hard to beat for a while I think .
Jackson v QPR is a close second to the Wednesday 3-2 game, that was just incredible, last minute winners happen relatively regularly but coming back from 2-0 down to win away from home with all the goals scored by a striker who had looked pretty average all season is fairly unique.
It goes without saying that this has been one of the hardest seasons to follow Charlton. Yet out of it, I have some of the best, most enjoyable memories I think I've had following us. There have been a shed load of lowpoints, but these have made the highlights as exciting, shocking, uplifting, surprising and euphoric as they have been. It's only once you suffer that you appreciate the highs.
Assuming we were never planning on promotion this year and with the benefit of hindsight allowing us to know we would be safe, I genuinely don't think I would change this season - I certainly wouln't want to sign up for this every year! But for the one off experience, I'd take the thrill of the relgation scrap and the forging of such iconic moments through the doom and despair. The emergence of youth players, last minute winners, unexpected goalscorers, takeovers, pantomime heroes/villains...it's been a great, if not unconventional season.
I pity the teletext fans. The sky go armchair supporters. The glory hunters who skip between PL sides. They can never understand what it feels like to follow a football team. They will never witness or take in nights like Tuesday. We may have been a fairly terrible team this year, but this team has provided a football experience that us fans won't forget in a hurry.
What a pleasure to read, I agree with this positive outlook wholeheartedly. This has to have been one of the toughest seasons I've had as a fan - but I really genuinely have enjoyed it. Sure, if we hadn't survived, I would struggle to say I'd enjoyed it. But we DID survive. The difficult points in this season have been some of the most memorable in all the years I've supported Charlton.
My personal highlight: Jacko's winner against QPR.
Why? The North Upper has gone off like that many times - but to see everyone in the East and the West exploding in the same way - to see the entire Valley scream and shout and jump as one - what a memory that is. We're all in it together, we're all part of Charlton, and I'll remember this season as much as our championship winning one.
I really enjoyed Nottingham Forest away myself, few fans but a good atmosphere made better by the boo's from the 'hasty to leave' Nottingham supporters.
We all know this season has been awful, Sacking of Chris, awful pitch, worst chicken burgers and shit beer...oh and losing lots of games and poor football. They are the worst!!! Best moments, Birmingham away, and Donny at home (replay), watching Poyet look class and......cant think of anymore.
Didn't get to QPOR game. Only commenting on games I was at although Sheff Wed away on the matvch thread would be in there. My favourites were:
1. Watford and especially Jacko's goal which came out of the blue just when we looked like losing. 2. Dervite winner against Bournemouth. 3. The day out at Sheff U despite the cack performance and the background politics that became clear the following day. 4. Performance against Forest which was a cracking good game. 5. Oxford game in the League cup where I saw Cousins for the first time and Pigott looked like a prospect. One out of two ain't bad I suppose.....
The rest of it, frankly, was a pile of steaming poo!
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Personal favourite moment? Powell swinging on the crossbar at Sheff Weds :-)
Best experience whilst not at a game has to be QPR winner. I was watching on the 'recommended'far eastern tv link
The winner v QPR was great as well, watching on TV with another rare commodity, a Phuket-based QPR fan with head in hands.
Two very rare decent moments that stick in my mind from this largely embarrassing and unethical debacle of a season:
1. Tuesday 1 October v Nottingham Forest. The north upper's defiant response to Fatty Reid's flukey free kick against us. After a momentary pause, they just kept singing as though nothing had happened and everyone followed suit. We knew then we would at least get a point and sure enough, we did.
2. Weds 12 March v Huddersfield. Standing for the dignified and moving tribute to Saint Chris three minutes into the fixture.
I will spare you my worst 100 memories which will not just be automatically wiped out by the enormous relief of avoiding a relegation which should never have been a realistic prospect in the first place.
Just the briefest of reminders though that our previous manager (remember him) was stabbed in the back and (according to newspaper reports) has still has not had his contract honoured, some of our hardest working players are out of work in one weeks time and up until two games ago this was the most inept Charlton attack in living memory. Even the Abbot and Costello show in League 1 had a comedy element. As for the farcical introduction of the uninvited Belgian rejects and the mystery Polish superstar, we can leave that for another thread.
Sorry but my champagne still tastes a little sour and some fans conveniently choose to have very short memories. In my experience, what goes around comes around sooner or later. Lets hope it's not next season.
Scenes at full time were worth getting home at 3am for
QPR at home as I can't stand their Manager or the Club.
Assuming we were never planning on promotion this year and with the benefit of hindsight allowing us to know we would be safe, I genuinely don't think I would change this season - I certainly wouln't want to sign up for this every year! But for the one off experience, I'd take the thrill of the relgation scrap and the forging of such iconic moments through the doom and despair. The emergence of youth players, last minute winners, unexpected goalscorers, takeovers, pantomime heroes/villains...it's been a great, if not unconventional season.
I pity the teletext fans. The sky go armchair supporters. The glory hunters who skip between PL sides. They can never understand what it feels like to follow a football team. They will never witness or take in nights like Tuesday. We may have been a fairly terrible team this year, but this team has provided a football experience that us fans won't forget in a hurry.
1) Playing at Welling on a nice sunny day after arriving in UK that morning
2) A spirited performance against Birmingham that ended in defeat
3) The emergence of Poyet and Cousins
Add to that:
4) The hope that the youngsters both stay and continue to progress and that some experience is brought in to strengthen the side in the known weak areas
5) The fact that we managed to scramble out of the bottom three - I think we have made a mixture of good luck and bad luck, but it could have gone either way from what I have seen.
That I didn't see.....Hamer's penalty save at Leeds
2. Sordell hat-trick at Hillsborough
3. Harriott's brace vs Watford
4. Finally getting rid of Slater and Jiminez
5. Jose Riga's speech after the Watford game
As there is bound now to be a lowpoint post too, here are mine -
1. SCP sacking
2. Losing Yann and Stephens
3. The G21 calling out RD
4. Missing the Bramall Lane quarter final
5. The Valley performance vs. Millwall
Penalty save at Leeds, the comeback at Hillsborough (Up with our BIG mouths, we're staying up with our BIG mouths), Last minute winners against QPR and Bournemouth, Sealing survival against Watford. Yann's free kick-kick at Oxford. Jacko equaliser at Ipswich. Winning at Blackburn again.
Lows: Missing out on going to the New Wembley, Yann leaving, SCP leaving.
Low-point: The sale of Kermorgant just four weeks later.
I enjoyed my trip to Sheff Utd , Shame it was spoilt by a football match.
My personal highlight: Jacko's winner against QPR.
Why? The North Upper has gone off like that many times - but to see everyone in the East and the West exploding in the same way - to see the entire Valley scream and shout and jump as one - what a memory that is. We're all in it together, we're all part of Charlton, and I'll remember this season as much as our championship winning one.
Best moments, Birmingham away, and Donny at home (replay), watching Poyet look class and......cant think of anymore.
1. Watford and especially Jacko's goal which came out of the blue just when we looked like losing.
2. Dervite winner against Bournemouth.
3. The day out at Sheff U despite the cack performance and the background politics that became clear the following day.
4. Performance against Forest which was a cracking good game.
5. Oxford game in the League cup where I saw Cousins for the first time and Pigott looked like a prospect. One out of two ain't bad I suppose.....
The rest of it, frankly, was a pile of steaming poo!
2. Jackson winner at QPR
3. Jackson equaliser at Ipswich
4. Young Addicks Xmas party
Best bit was enjoying all of these with my 8 year old son who is absolutely Charlton mad. Can't wait to do it all again next season.