Perhaps to bear in mind also is that this has been a WC year and there was the usual football overload. Many have been saying for years that there's too much football on TV, and the constant hype that surrounds it just devalues the sport in the end. After the dust settled on a spectacular Brazil 2014 it all seemed to go a bit stale, with the individual PSFs looking even more meaningless than usual.
I've got a feeling in my left one that this is going to be more than just a respectable season for Charlton. Better days ahead !!
Can't wait for the season to start, don't really understand why so many still feel negative.
I feel the ship has been steadied and we are now very much looking up the league table (and Not with a boom or bust policy). Imoh we will be knocking on the door of the premiership within 2/3 years and will substain that push year on year until we get over the line. Good times ahead.
Just sit down buckle up and enjoy the ride, just think this time last year we had Simon Church as a main striker for us.... Even thinking about that makes me Shiver...
Its always the same feeling on the even numbered years because of the colossal sporting events that take place those years. I was the same in 2012 - however, after watching the friendly last weekend, i feel that if we could get a good start then our season could be different from the last few turgid years (TBH, even the second half of our promotion year was fairly turgid)
We've all been put through the wringer in the last year, so an element of fatigue and anxiety for the future is inevitable. We are most certainly venturing into the unknown this season but I think we're in a much better place now than we were a year ago. At that stage, Jiminez had run out of cash, the contracts of our best six players were running down, we had only one first team striker on the books five days before the start of the season and (unbeknownst to us) the bloody pitch drainage had collapsed !
I am really looking forward to this season. We have a tough start but a couple of good performances will get everyone's enthusiasm level up - thus it ever was.
I am indifferent to the Powell debate now. Performances were very poor and results weren't much better. Riga managed much better performances (even after we'd lost two of our best players) and achieved significantly better results too.
I'm optimistic that we have as good a set up (management and playing staff) as we had last summer and the summer before.
I was excited for the season we, eventually, won the third division; I was excited about the first season in the Championship as I thought we might go straight through; and I was optimistic last summer that we would carry through our great finish to the season before.
This summer we have a new manager and several new players. It might be a little underwhelming, but at the same time it might be that we have a great season or, less fantastically, some great games to watch.
So, yes, I'm excited. It always takes the shine off a little bit, for me, when we start away from home, but that aside this is probably as excited as I've been since we were relegated from the Premier League.
must admit i dont get really excited until september ...call me old fashioned i think the season starts too early although i am optimistic ....once i get through the turnstiles for the first home league game the heart rate will increase
i will get excited when we get our first win until then i will bite my nails :P just hope the covered end hasn't lost its voice and moved to the A block lol.
I am not feeling either negative or positive, just strangely indifferent. There's no real evidence yet on which to base an opinion, just lots of maybes. But the spark has disappeared and that bothers me. Hopefully I will find out where I can get a new one.
Two 3m euro centre forwards. How can anyone not be excited?
Exactly .... Realistically with the alleged money spent on these players we should be a cert for the top half , I'm not saying we're not gonna finish there but it just doesn't feel like we definitely will , which is bizarre !
Just sit down buckle up and enjoy the ride, just think this time last year we had Simon Church as a main striker for us.... Even thinking about that makes me Shiver...
If you had a job Greenies that you did for a good few years professionally / competently and dealt with people regularly who got to know you and then some new owners came in and offered you less money for that same job and pushed you in to a corner where you had to leave , would you not expect the punters who you dealt with to show you some empathy in that situation or not
But would I expect that to make the punters not excited about the football season? No. People have lost there jobs, that's not a nice thing but to say it's made you feel unexcited, to me, is just mind boggling.
I understand your points about CP but just can't get my head round that particular one
I'm saying the "whole" situation feels weird and I'm not excited about the season when with the ridiculous sums of money spent I should be putting my house on us to make the top half or play offs and be proper flicked up But this network stuff is a bit odd to me , I'm just an old fogey who can't adapt as well as you young guns
Think Bob could do with another 6 months of friendlies and team building personally. Season has come far too quickly for an new manager AND a new team imo
Looking at the coming season I don't feel as romantically excited as I have sometimes done, this time I'm here on business. I am up for it because I want and expect to see us win. I am happy and excited by the expectation of scoring goals, winning matches, and getting points...the core enterprise. George Tucadean says it for me in the last part of his post Portsmouth interview. he wants to win, I want to win, we want to win.... whatever it takes. Here on business.
Jeez, always look forward to me football and the banter with fellow fans etc new team, pitch, and seats for the rest of you miserable lot i am selling placards £9.99 pm for info.
Even if we achieve automatic promotion (which we won't of course) some of us sad traditionalists will still feel that some of the authentic soul of the club has gone and it's tough to get passionate about a clinical experiment based on a cleverly worked out European business model.
When you trade in your rusty, knackered-out and totally uneconomical Triumph TR6 for a nice new Nissan Micra you know it makes sense. It even has alloy wheels, the insurance is cheaper and you are far more likely to arrive at your destination on time but you still can't help feeling feeling like a wanker.
I genuinely can't remember the last time I was this excited about a new season and I've been following Charlton for nearly 30 years.
As I mentioned in an earlier thread, a combination of the new signings and my six year old son taking a genuine interest have re-ignited my passion for the Addicks as I have been pretty non-plussed by it all over the past few years too.
Roll on Saturday! (Not that my son will be coming as I'm having a day on the lash with my pals....)
I suppose I feel a weird sense of excitement for the new season, purely because I have no clue what we will be like. Pretty much all of the players signed bar Bikey and TBH I have never heard of or seen and those two seem like journeymen players at the end of their careers. Thankfully I look forward to seeing JJ, Cousins, Solly, Wiggins and Morrison as well more youngsters breaking through. Hopefully the new influx of players from Europe will be better than the last lot. Excited to get back down the Valley though.
Reading back through the thread, it's interesting how those that are feeling less than excited are able to see the point of view of those that are excited, but the other way around it's full of "I can't understand it/don't get it..." even though plenty of people have taken the time and trouble to explain at length why they feel the way they do.
Absolutely sums up my feelings OohAah - don't feel bad or hypocritical about it. I was 100% behind Powell, at the time when some of the biggest new regime fanboys on here and elsewhere seemed to really enjoy his struggles and relish in his sacking. Hopefully the results will come and the CAFC I want to support will reemerge - at the moment to me it's just a rich guys project.
What i wont be doing is posting negatively about results or the problems we might encounter - will just stit back and see how it all unfolds.
I like what I'm hearing from Bob so far and there seems to be good work going on off the pitch by Katrien and co. I really have no idea how well we'll do but that make it exciting, for me anyway. Certainly more positive than last season, where we weren't able to bring in any key targets.
I'm excited. The club has been going backwards at an alarming rate for what, eight years ? culminating in the debacle of last season where our beloved Valley pitch was the laughing stock of English football and where it was more of a chore to visit The Valley than it was a joy. A manager with no financial support who only didn't walk because of who he was and the relationship he had with the fans.
We now have a new top class pitch, money being spent on the stadium and owners that obviously want to progress us on the pitch.
A strike force that cost something like €6 million and a completely revamped squad.
I'm excited. The club has been going backwards at an alarming rate for what, eight years ? culminating in the debacle of last season where our beloved Valley pitch was the laughing stock of English football and where it was more of a chore to visit The Valley than it was a joy. A manager with no financial support who only didn't walk because of who he was and the relationship he had with the fans.
We now have a new top class pitch, money being spent on the stadium and owners that obviously want to progress us on the pitch.
A strike force that cost something like €6 million and a completely revamped squad.
Please tell me why I shouldn't be excited.
Read about 35% of the posts above for explanation mate.
Just for the record, we won a league title with a record points total, recorded our highest ever away win and reached a cup quarter final during the "going backwards" years. As well as a hell of a lot of lows, I grant you... :-)
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And watching that q and a vid, it amazes me how many football fans will lap up any old crap. And no I'm not only talking about Murray's input.
Perhaps to bear in mind also is that this has been a WC year and there was the usual football overload. Many have been saying for years that there's too much football on TV, and the constant hype that surrounds it just devalues the sport in the end. After the dust settled on a spectacular Brazil 2014 it all seemed to go a bit stale, with the individual PSFs looking even more meaningless than usual.
I've got a feeling in my left one that this is going to be more than just a respectable season for Charlton. Better days ahead !!
I feel the ship has been steadied and we are now very much looking up the league table (and Not with a boom or bust policy). Imoh we will be knocking on the door of the premiership within 2/3 years and will substain that push year on year until we get over the line. Good times ahead.
Just sit down buckle up and enjoy the ride, just think this time last year we had Simon Church as a main striker for us.... Even thinking about that makes me Shiver...
I am really looking forward to this season. We have a tough start but a couple of good performances will get everyone's enthusiasm level up - thus it ever was.
I'm optimistic that we have as good a set up (management and playing staff) as we had last summer and the summer before.
I was excited for the season we, eventually, won the third division; I was excited about the first season in the Championship as I thought we might go straight through; and I was optimistic last summer that we would carry through our great finish to the season before.
This summer we have a new manager and several new players. It might be a little underwhelming, but at the same time it might be that we have a great season or, less fantastically, some great games to watch.
So, yes, I'm excited. It always takes the shine off a little bit, for me, when we start away from home, but that aside this is probably as excited as I've been since we were relegated from the Premier League.
But this network stuff is a bit odd to me , I'm just an old fogey who can't adapt as well as you young guns
I am up for it because I want and expect to see us win. I am happy and excited by the expectation of scoring goals, winning matches, and getting points...the core enterprise.
George Tucadean says it for me in the last part of his post Portsmouth interview. he wants to win, I want to win, we want to win.... whatever it takes.
Here on business.
Thank you Oohaah for a very brave post.
Even if we achieve automatic promotion (which we won't of course) some of us sad traditionalists will still feel that some of the authentic soul of the club has gone and it's tough to get passionate about a clinical experiment based on a cleverly worked out European business model.
When you trade in your rusty, knackered-out and totally uneconomical Triumph TR6 for a nice new Nissan Micra you know it makes sense. It even has alloy wheels, the insurance is cheaper and you are far more likely to arrive at your destination on time but you still can't help feeling feeling like a wanker.
That's the problem.
As I mentioned in an earlier thread, a combination of the new signings and my six year old son taking a genuine interest have re-ignited my passion for the Addicks as I have been pretty non-plussed by it all over the past few years too.
Roll on Saturday! (Not that my son will be coming as I'm having a day on the lash with my pals....)
Good non-abusive discussion though, nonetheless.
What i wont be doing is posting negatively about results or the problems we might encounter - will just stit back and see how it all unfolds.
We now have a new top class pitch, money being spent on the stadium and owners that obviously want to progress us on the pitch.
A strike force that cost something like €6 million and a completely revamped squad.
Please tell me why I shouldn't be excited.
Just for the record, we won a league title with a record points total, recorded our highest ever away win and reached a cup quarter final during the "going backwards" years. As well as a hell of a lot of lows, I grant you... :-)