2 seasons on the trot we are 5 or 6 players short of a championship squad. Too many crappy foreigners who no one has ever heard for being brought in, in the hope that one or two may be decent so we can sell on for a profit. Too many crappy players again being brought on the cheap with the hope they are miraculously over their injuries problems.
It's like they are dangling a bit of cheese on a bit of string and every time we get a nibble and want more they move it away again and say fuck you thats your lot for a while. This is not just on the pitch with the squad its off the pitch too, Things like catering was supposed to be all brilliant then 5 minutes later just everyone was enjoying it, it went shit again.
Programme sellers disappeared. The £10 voucher for west upper fans who had to be moved was an absolute shambles and even resolving it was a joke.
Pretty bored of it all at the minute.
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Don't understand what the aim is, don't really understand what it is that I'm supporting, don't really care that much anymore.
As for RD, I like the idea of him (a genuine businessman who appears to have made a lot of money honourably), but his football philosophy is not successful so far in terms of results on the pitch. KM I have never thought to much of. Young, naive and no pedigree or experience. She is learning on the job but seems to lack the forethought to listen to others with experience.
How many times have we been close to bankruptcy?
How many times have we been evicted from the ground and forced to share the worst stadium in the league?
In the last, say, seventy years, when has the pitch been properly invested in and been in better condition?
Since, say, the war*, when have we had better, realistic, funded, approved plans for training facilities? (Take your pick: Iraq, Falklands, WWII).
We may not be as high up in the football league as most of us want. But without the investment, stability and security that these people have brought to the club, there was always the possibility we wouldn't *be* in the football league.
Then who would we support?
6 weeks ago all the "bloody foreigners"we're the bargains of the century, cool thread!
Ok your right they are wonderful. How do I buy a season ticket to see the new training ground.
Other clubs must be so jealous, because they only have a decent football team.
End of august, everything was looking great. All of a sudden in a matter of weeks, it's now looking typically the charlton complete sh*t style of hopelessness.
My fear, on this occasion is that I can't see us regaining positive form anytime soon, but football in general can suddenly surprise and be unpredictable.
The club is not what it used to be and it does not feel quite the same. This has been going on for years and talked about on here many with plenty of open heart honest essays.
Supporting any football club you have to prepare to take the rough with the smooth, but this is a different kind of rough that is hard to explain.
Initially, I think supporting this club, a lot of people partly fell in love with Charlton for certain reasons.... and some of those reasons most likely seem to be distant memories now...but you do have to move on with stuff if you can and try to get used to change.
I understand why so many fans say they now feel disconnected and bored. If we are winning, then it is bearable and good enough, but if where on a bad run then the whole thing is too overly sour and dull.
I actually miss the days when charlton lost a game and it would have a big enough impact to ruin my weekend.
I seem to have trailed off, ah yes Roland and Katrien...
We're not going bust - granted.
As for being relegated, that's part of football. I can live with that if we're skint, if people have made mistakes, if we've appointed a manager who we thought would be good but turned out to be terrible, or signed players who weren't as good as they were supposed to be. As long as the ultimate aim was to be the best that we could be, I don't mind if we fail.
Roland seems to aspire to tread water, to muddle through, to achieve mediocrity whilst balancing the books. Difficult to put into words, you either get it or you don't.
We are one of those clubs not good enough or ready to to challenge for promotion but we are better than last season and so far ahead of where we were the season before.
RD is building in a sensible way year on year to put us in the frame to challenge. This is not the year but we are progressing.
Those that want instant success are going to be disappointed.
It's been said this league is about small margins in defeat or victory. At the moment I believe we are on the wrong end of that but that can soon change.
We need striker options. Watt cannot carry the weight of responsibility on his own. Mak needs to get fit and adapt to the English game. Igor has some weird issue we cannot get to grips with and I think will be gone. KAG is too young to produce week in week out.
Time to get behind the team and the owner. I don't want him to spend money the club can't afford chasing an impossible dream.
If we are not stronger this time next year then I will start to question. But for now I am happy to support the owner, manager and players.
COYR
If this fails to happen we are in trouble
There is no leadership on the pitch , lovely fella and player but as I've said before I don think Chris Solly has the character/personality to be captain
Luzon to me doesn't appear to have them playing for him and this is where he has to earn his corn and turn it around
The alleged buy at the end of loan fee for Big Mak is £2m as decent(ish) as he has been and obviously as our shit form continues, without him playing he will become even better , I'm not sure I think he's worth that much .... Still if he's the difference between staying up and relegation he'd be a bargain
You need to get the rose tinted glasses off.
From the Rotherham game onwards, we've played sideways-backwards-sideways, before crossing the halfway line and sat off the opposition. Our style of play has changed and it's easily contained. It looks like the players are going through the motions.
Something has happened in the group to change the dynamics. If I didn't know otherwise, I'd guess that the players are not happy with the coach, for whatever reason. It wouldn't be the first time, the dressing room has got the manager/coach the sack.