Broadly, all season long, having a useless, uncreative, slow, non-goal-scoring, non-tackling midfield that opposition teams could merely take their time strolling through with impunity. For that, you can directly blame a succession of useless managers and the board.
Not a fan of Fraeye as a coach or as co-ordinator of the scouting and analysis network(his own claim) but I won't blame him entirely. He actually got 40% of our wins.
The first error was not building on the good start by signing another 3 or 4 players as competition for the decent 1stt XI.
When we were top six we could have attract decent loans and purchases but we left it to the end of January and later when all we could get was fanny, I mean Fanni.
We are a championship club with League 1 aspirations.
Katrien Meire will get her bonus from the owner and then move on to the world of cinema.
KM will find out that she can get away with not giving the "Customers" what they want, under Duchatelet. but in the movie business ? Walt Disnae (Tony Watt Accent) put up with that rubbish
Broadly, all season long, having a useless, uncreative, slow, non-goal-scoring, non-tackling midfield that opposition teams could merely take their time strolling through with impunity. For that, you can directly blame a succession of useless managers and the board.
All season? 3 years we've been saying we need strengthening in midfield, we need a creative midfielder etc. 3 f***ing years we've had the same glaring deficit and not one manager has been able to make any difference.
Fraeye's time in charge meant we were always fighting an uphill battle. But Riga's first three home games, at least tow of which we ought to have won, produced two points from nine. He says the right thing, looks the part, but his track record since leaving us first time speaks volumes, and from what I have seen so far, there is no reason to suspect he is the answer, more that he just got lucky back in 2013-14.
Assembling a squad with no plan or template to fashion a TEAM.
Good managers/owners sign players as part of some master agenda.
Collectively any team should be greater than the sum of the parts. Curbs always had the next 2-3 signings in his head as he postulated what the team could potentially be and how they would dovetail.
I've seen Sunday league teams with more organisation and drilled patterns of play then Charlton have shown this season.
We have spent money. Staprix have wasted a packet on crap on the pitch and various shit initiatives off the pitch.
So Staprix, you are so inept that a team that can't pay its players is doing no worse than us.
You bang on about your budgets, so why have we signed total chuff for the sake of it?
All the debt racked up on the likes of naby sarr and Roger Johnson is ours. It's not RDs. We owe that cnut plus his interest.
In the season that even the sky Big 4 acknowledge fans can't be squeezed like muggy cnuts, Staprix are alone in abusing loyal supporters and alienating them from their own club.
Oyston is the only pondlife who compares to Staprix. Cellini is TEN times more interested in his supporters.
We don't ask for anything really. Just a team and a club to support. We'd welcome overseas players no end, but we shun the constant churn of players that are never going to take real pride in the shirt.
What I do know is that give anyone but Staprix the same resources we have had this season and we would not be the worst TEAM in the top 4 tiers.
According to our CEO we should finish 3rd bottom and be relegated because that's our budget. So why spend it on naby sarr?
Agents control Staprix more than they control most football clubs because this club doesn't know anything about football.
The CEO has been taken to the cleaners on incoming and outgoing deals because she is a child and a stroppy one at that.
Just reminding that CEO we shared a league with Bolton, Rotherham, mk dons, Bristol city, Huddersfield because I am sure we will hear no end of crap that league 1 is our level as her next excuse.
If we had not had the run off injuries after the Hull game which at one point we had 12 players out , before the idiots say we should have a squad let's put into perpective Man City blame there bad results on missing Kompany one player !! We had 12 players either injured or carrying knocks
We would be top 10 no question just look at Cardiff yesterday there suppose to be the 8 th best team in this league
Deluded. Injuries play their part but it is not just down to them. Scouting of players, incompetence of Coaches, lack of players giving 100 Per cent. We have shown all season on and off the field how a football club should not be run. We deserve to be relegated.
Not enough old Charlton fight on the pitch!! And weirdly Curbishley on football league show last night said the fans need to support the club and he said we need to do it now and stop protesting because it's difficult for the players to play in that atmosphere!
If we had not had the run off injuries after the Hull game which at one point we had 12 players out , before the idiots say we should have a squad let's put into perpective Man City blame there bad results on missing Kompany one player !! We had 12 players either injured or carrying knocks
We would be top 10 no question just look at Cardiff yesterday there suppose to be the 8 th best team in this league
Because, let's face it, this is the first season anyone's been injured in English football so, until now, no-one had to consider the radical (dare I say revolutionary?) idea of having a squad to cover.
And before any "idiots" start wittering on about "perspective", yes Man City have pointed to the loss of Kompany... However, Man City are saying that the loss of Kompany has affected them, because he is a key part of their team.
It has been pointed out, by numerous pundits that he is a key player, both for his own play and the leadership that he provides. In his absence, Man City have been less sure in defence and have conceded goals.
The contrast between the regime and Man City, is that they recognise and accept Kompany's importance to the club, and that it goes beyond his individual play. Nor have Man City ever claimed that their squad doesn't need improvement (and theirs is a smidgen better than ours) because only eleven people can play at a time.
With City, they rightly point to the thin margins between a top four finish and, maybe, winning the league. With the regime, they completely ignore the gaping chasm between basic competence and complete f***ing idiocy.
The only top ten this regime will put us in will be a TV companies list of worst English footballing disasters.
Broadly, all season long, having a useless, uncreative, slow, non-goal-scoring, non-tackling midfield that opposition teams could merely take their time strolling through with impunity. For that, you can directly blame a succession of useless managers and the board.
All season? 3 years we've been saying we need strengthening in midfield, we need a creative midfielder etc. 3 f***ing years we've had the same glaring deficit and not one manager has been able to make any difference.
Very true. But the question was "what's sent us down this season?"
The coaches haven't understood what is required in the Championship, the recruitment policy has been flawed and the players haven't been good enough.
I was keeping an eye on the coaches yesterday particualrly at around the time Cousins was injured. First the number of them - what do we need with 4 first team coaches Jose, Jose, Jase and Wim (sounds like a dodgy firm of solicitors)? Second they were often in a little huddle rather than looking at the play. They did not have a clue that Cousins' injury was as serious as it was and had not come up with a substitution plan. Hence the fiasco of Reza's number being shown when Yaya substituted Jordan. Too many cooks putting too many ingredients into the broth?
If we had not had the run off injuries after the Hull game which at one point we had 12 players out , before the idiots say we should have a squad let's put into perpective Man City blame there bad results on missing Kompany one player !! We had 12 players either injured or carrying knocks
We would be top 10 no question just look at Cardiff yesterday there suppose to be the 8 th best team in this league
And why did injuries hit us so hard? Because behind the first xi was just kids.
And why did we suffer so many injuries? Because the squad is full of people not used to the rigours of the Championship.
If we had not had the run off injuries after the Hull game which at one point we had 12 players out , before the idiots say we should have a squad let's put into perpective Man City blame there bad results on missing Kompany one player !! We had 12 players either injured or carrying knocks
We would be top 10 no question just look at Cardiff yesterday there suppose to be the 8 th best team in this league
I assume either Colin had a really late night out or he's not had any Valentine's Day cards, because he's in overdrive even by his standards today. Top 10 without injuries?
Injuries? Yeh, because no other side has had them and our full squad is outstanding. You should also blame referees, because almost every decision has gone against us. And don;t forget the protests, because without those we'd have got another dozen points.
If we had not had the run off injuries after the Hull game which at one point we had 12 players out , before the idiots say we should have a squad let's put into perpective Man City blame there bad results on missing Kompany one player !! We had 12 players either injured or carrying knocks
We would be top 10 no question just look at Cardiff yesterday there suppose to be the 8 th best team in this league
If we had not had the run off injuries after the Hull game which at one point we had 12 players out , before the idiots say we should have a squad let's put into perpective Man City blame there bad results on missing Kompany one player !! We had 12 players either injured or carrying knocks
We would be top 10 no question just look at Cardiff yesterday there suppose to be the 8 th best team in this league
You need to open your eyes.
However, I am glad you leave a Charlton game content as opposed to thousands of others.
A successful team must be greater than the sum of its parts. Achieving this is down to careful player selection on varying criteria including all of attitude, experience, potential and ability. The past master at this was of course Alan Curbishley.
Players selected for recruitment had to fit the criteria. Part of the overal plan to strengthen slowly and build. I accept that this policy could be supplemented by clever loans but on the whole the club must have a strategy wholly overseen by the manager who has complete faith in his scouting team. Think football jigsaw. Each piece fitting.
Charlton at this moment couldn't be further from this model if it tried. Untried, untested, Unknown foreign mercenaries and punts admittedly also with some quality put together piecemeal by a succession of untried, untested, Unknown foreign coaches.
An owner who admits mistakes yet learns nothing and a CEO that stumbles from crisis to gaff and back again yet still has the complete faith of the absentee owner.
If CAFC were a cakemix recipe then every part of it would be wrong. The resulting cake inedible.
Everything about Charlton is currently plain wrong. Expecting anything other than failure based on the current model is just daft.
For me it was the work that was not carried out in the close season.Not getting the right players in,having seen the games played in Belgium you could see what lay ahead for us.I attended Gent and STVV matches with a coach from Holland i did not need him to tell me Charltons weak points.It came as a compleate shock to us that Charlton beat QPR and Hull as anyone could see the whole set up was wrong.Now we stand in the bottom three the shock is with The Board of Directors and not us.
We all go on about the injuries we have had, but I am more mystified by how long these injuries take to get over. I do not know our medical staff, so cannot say they are to blame, but how many times did we hear that an injured player is going to have an operation weeks after the injury, or "he will only be out a couple of weeks" then we do not see the player for a couple of months. Bauer was supposed to be back a few weeks after his operation, now we hear he could be out for most of the season. Diarra, we keep hearing he is only a couple of weeks away, I think we heard this about 5 or 6 weeks ago. When will the club be honest about the injuries, and why are there so many long term injuries. Look at Vetokele, that must be the most badly handled injury in football. Rant over, carry on
Hendo says we need 6 wins to stay up, Im sorry but I cant see us getting six wins between now and May. 3 maybe 4 at a stretch? That also assumes the teams around us dont win much at the same time...
Ive been 50/50 on relegation until now, Saturdays result resigned me to it.
The average points score to avoid relegation the last 5 years has been 46, which includes Peterborough who went down on 54. Right now, we are on schedule for 37 points which will see us relegated every time.
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For that, you can directly blame a succession of useless managers and the board.
The first error was not building on the good start by signing another 3 or 4 players as competition for the decent 1stt XI.
When we were top six we could have attract decent loans and purchases but we left it to the end of January and later when all we could get was fanny, I mean Fanni.
Football is a simple game made complicated by idiots. Bill Shankly 1965.
A British based coach, if allowed to, would bring in players who are good enough to get the job done and we'd be halfway up the league. Simples.
We are a championship club with League 1 aspirations.
Katrien Meire will get her bonus from the owner
and then move on to the world of cinema.
KM will find out that she can get away with not
giving the "Customers" what they want, under Duchatelet.
but in the movie business ?
Walt Disnae (Tony Watt Accent) put up with that rubbish
Good managers/owners sign players as part of some master agenda.
Collectively any team should be greater than the sum of the parts. Curbs always had the next 2-3 signings in his head as he postulated what the team could potentially be and how they would dovetail.
I've seen Sunday league teams with more organisation and drilled patterns of play then Charlton have shown this season.
We have spent money. Staprix have wasted a packet on crap on the pitch and various shit initiatives off the pitch.
So Staprix, you are so inept that a team that can't pay its players is doing no worse than us.
You bang on about your budgets, so why have we signed total chuff for the sake of it?
All the debt racked up on the likes of naby sarr and Roger Johnson is ours. It's not RDs. We owe that cnut plus his interest.
In the season that even the sky Big 4 acknowledge fans can't be squeezed like muggy cnuts, Staprix are alone in abusing loyal supporters and alienating them from their own club.
Oyston is the only pondlife who compares to Staprix. Cellini is TEN times more interested in his supporters.
We don't ask for anything really. Just a team and a club to support. We'd welcome overseas players no end, but we shun the constant churn of players that are never going to take real pride in the shirt.
What I do know is that give anyone but Staprix the same resources we have had this season and we would not be the worst TEAM in the top 4 tiers.
According to our CEO we should finish 3rd bottom and be relegated because that's our budget. So why spend it on naby sarr?
Agents control Staprix more than they control most football clubs because this club doesn't know anything about football.
The CEO has been taken to the cleaners on incoming and outgoing deals because she is a child and a stroppy one at that.
Just reminding that CEO we shared a league with Bolton, Rotherham, mk dons, Bristol city, Huddersfield because I am sure we will hear no end of crap that league 1 is our level as her next excuse.
And before any "idiots" start wittering on about "perspective", yes Man City have pointed to the loss of Kompany... However, Man City are saying that the loss of Kompany has affected them, because he is a key part of their team.
It has been pointed out, by numerous pundits that he is a key player, both for his own play and the leadership that he provides. In his absence, Man City have been less sure in defence and have conceded goals.
The contrast between the regime and Man City, is that they recognise and accept Kompany's importance to the club, and that it goes beyond his individual play. Nor have Man City ever claimed that their squad doesn't need improvement (and theirs is a smidgen better than ours) because only eleven people can play at a time.
With City, they rightly point to the thin margins between a top four finish and, maybe, winning the league. With the regime, they completely ignore the gaping chasm between basic competence and complete f***ing idiocy.
The only top ten this regime will put us in will be a TV companies list of worst English footballing disasters.
First the number of them - what do we need with 4 first team coaches Jose, Jose, Jase and Wim (sounds like a dodgy firm of solicitors)?
Second they were often in a little huddle rather than looking at the play. They did not have a clue that Cousins' injury was as serious as it was and had not come up with a substitution plan. Hence the fiasco of Reza's number being shown when Yaya substituted Jordan. Too many cooks putting too many ingredients into the broth?
And why did we suffer so many injuries? Because the squad is full of people not used to the rigours of the Championship.
Injuries? Yeh, because no other side has had them and our full squad is outstanding. You should also blame referees, because almost every decision has gone against us. And don;t forget the protests, because without those we'd have got another dozen points.
However, I am glad you leave a Charlton game content as opposed to thousands of others.
You are an act who needs to get out more.
Players selected for recruitment had to fit the criteria. Part of the overal plan to strengthen slowly and build. I accept that this policy could be supplemented by clever loans but on the whole the club must have a strategy wholly overseen by the manager who has complete faith in his scouting team. Think football jigsaw. Each piece fitting.
Charlton at this moment couldn't be further from this model if it tried. Untried, untested, Unknown foreign mercenaries and punts admittedly also with some quality put together piecemeal by a succession of untried, untested, Unknown foreign coaches.
An owner who admits mistakes yet learns nothing and a CEO that stumbles from crisis to gaff and back again yet still has the complete faith of the absentee owner.
If CAFC were a cakemix recipe then every part of it would be wrong. The resulting cake inedible.
Everything about Charlton is currently plain wrong. Expecting anything other than failure based on the current model is just daft.
Ive been 50/50 on relegation until now, Saturdays result resigned me to it.