Most know I'm not keen on anything charlton at the moment. I don't like RD I don't trust KM and I don't want GL. I think this network experiment doesn't work and I want my club back....preferably with a few faces we shouldn't have got rid of!
Anyway I'm trying desperately, desperately looking for a positive somewhere. So, I stumble across an article on how cafc are looking to strengthen the squad during the January transfer window. Honestly....it could have been the same story that's been used for the past god knows how many years, but with the name changed to GL. I read it and immediately thought....what a load of bollocks. We've been told this time and again. We're not going to sign anyone. We've not even got a manager who has a permit! We've had 3 weeks already and we've signed Watt from.....you've guessed it SL! Now don't get me wrong he looks ok. But it just feels like we're still being mugged off. We'll get another couple of network loanees in, dressed up to look like the next Ronaldo, and perhaps an 'experienced' player or 2 that may have a year or so left of a career.
And this is the problem. I dont believe I'm alone. The club is losing the trust and patience of the fans. I don't believe what I'm being told. We've been here before. We've felt let down more than once at the lack of player signings and ambition. We can't win this league with the squad we have. We will struggle to stay in the top half. So what are we playing for? What is the aim this season? I don't wanna hear GL say in his barely understandable English it's to 'turn the results around'. Ok then what? What was the aim at the start of the season under BP?
If RD,KM, GL etc think it is ok to say 'safety' then we're fooked....because that's boring and doesn't appeal to most. I know there are lots of 'glass half full' posters on here....please give me something positive to think about, something I've not thought about to cling onto!
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Lucky we're so solid at the back......
Looking at some of the games we've got coming up, survival is the only realistic aim. I fully expect this to be achieved, but in the hands of another manager, sorry-coach, as I can't see Luzon lasting more than a month or two.
I'd like us to aim higher, but reckon its survival at best now. We're not bottom of the form table for nothing.
When we have just survival people are justified in being frustrated. It is hardy a sexy tag line to promote ST sales.
Then we just have to wait and see. The proverbial lets see what happens in the off season, let's give it 10 games, let's see what happens in January..... Which seems to be the merry go round we're on at the moment.
All I want is to support a side that feels like it belongs to us as a fanbase, like the one we had up until the rat came in.
There's less than two weeks of the window left then Rotherham... Then the loan window and a fairly tough set of games in February.
We simply dont know where the next win is coming from although Henderson returning should assist.
What should we expect overall? Well up until end November we appeared to be strolling towards mid-table finish which might lead to reinforcements now and over the summer. Who knows what they are going to do since they have no inclination to tell us.
Small point now, but maybe a big one later . . .
- Avoidance of relegation
- Play-offs
- Automatic promotion.
On current form, we'll do well to achieve the first one. The season has been bizarre and increasingly distressing. We may yet come good, but it's not the club I knew, and yearn for.