Why does this happen every time the club go out of their way to get everyone involved.
The board were great, coming out before the game same as at Boro, the fans were absolutely amazing and I will never forget the announcer asking all charlton fans to sit down and we immediately went into a chorus of 'stand up if you love charlton'.
But ... the players were in the main ineffective and useless. Half of them seemed to be looking forward to their holidays and a lucrative (injury-free) transfer in the summer. We put so much effort in as fans and these millionaire prima-donnas cannot be bothered. I know this does not apply to the entire team but yesterday felt like they were taking us for fools. I felt so low last night but yet, as all football fans do, I wake up again this mornong thinking ... well .... maybe ... there is a faint chance. But, to be honest, if the players perform again as they did yesterday we haven't a hope of beating the spuds or scousers.
We are all gonna need a break by the time the end of the season begins. Hopefully we will be still in the premiership but if not, let's make sure that at least the hard-core charlton get behind what is left of our team next season.
C'mon you reds!!!.
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I think you might be suprised. The premiership era will have converted more than you think.
Intersting point Stanmore - I saw quite a few 'new' fans on this trip that I wouldn't have expected to follow Charlton before and many of them had kids at Primary school age. It is the kids that will insist that they are still taken to Charlton next year and bearing in mind that many of them will already have renewed their season ticket, we may not see much of a drop-off. In fact, if we go down and do as well as I would expect us to, then we could even see an influx of more new fans. Time will tell.
Yes definitely - he certainly knows that he has our full support!
"What is it about us playing relegation threatened teams and falling down to 10 men, we're playing at home and we still couldnt hold a 1 goal lead or keep a clean sheet!?"
Perhaps he should also have added that they were completely outsung and that Blackburn must have some of the queitest fans in the Premier.
The reason we do these operations is because we have such a low level of away support, what might be more effective is to spend the money to try to boost our regular away support. No magic wand of course but perhaps could be a handful of initiatives
e.g.
1. priority membership scheme for away fans - 3 away stubs can be exchanged for free membership, priority over VG
2. give all ST holders a voucher for free coach travel to an away game (north of London) of their choice - first need 1 ticket stub from any away game apart from ManU/Chels/Liverpool/Arsenal.
Interesting ideas - certainly we need to do something to increase away support.
I could see the lower, and only small groups were standing, any aggro with the older generation who were sitting ?
Also when we took off and a group started singing 'we are staying up' - ie plane not the team ... oh well I guess you had to be there, not so funny when you type it out!
We had kids, shorties, ladies, old ladies, old gents all around us and no one said a thing. For once at an away game I was sat in the right seat (bloody row 2 at Boro in the cup)
I don't think the atmosphere would of continued throughout the game like it did had we been sitting down.
I was on the third plane. A selection of songs from the 70's 80's and 90's were blasting out from the last bus from the terminal. The directors on board (Henry excluded) seemed to have forgotten the words :-)