Personally the whole RD and KM battle at this moment in time is detracting from the real battle we have on our hands.
The club are now starring relegation in the face and it has to be upto us fans to put aside all the demos and do what we as fans should do for the remaining games and get behind the team from the first minute in the remaining fixtures.
Fulham will be the perfect place to start. Rather than turning up with a lame 1,000 and singing anti board songs we should turn up on mass and get behind the team in which is winnable game.
Remember the FACup game at Fulham.Noise levels and passion in which we have to create for the team.The players and Riga need us and what goes on at board level is nothing to do with the players.
Be proud of your team and help them out as much as we can in these remaining fixtures we are all in this together.
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Sure, the play impacts the volume of support (and not vice versa) but when it is so poor (as it has been) then it is tough for fans to get motivated. Away games are better, and we will take a few to Fulham and make some noise. But if we go 2-0 down in ten minutes (as per last season) then supporting the failing team won't matter, and the board will get the reaction they deserve as they are, ultimately, the cause.
It will only get worse under this mob but feel free to start the Charlton ultras any time you like.
BUT they are expecting a decent team performance - same as we expect every match, but let's face it.............
We are pony, and some players should be embarrassed to pick up £5000+ a week and play so poorly.
Look at the passbacks and sideways moves in the Cardiff game. We have a 6ft 7ins bloke upfront waiting for the ball, and an International on the wing - so either hoof it up, or play it wide and go forward.
We haven't had a penalty since I can remember (because we pose no threat in the box), our shots per game are a joke, and until recently even our corner count was poor.
Add to this, individual lack of skill of certain players ......and you can see why folk who have got up at silly o'clock to sit on a coach from Hastings might get disgruntled when training-ground stuff like through balls/bring-downs/corners/headed clearances etc are made a hash of.
All this claptrap about "sticking together" etc is horse manure - the players got us in this mess and only they can get us out of it.
Earn your £5000+ by putting in 90 mins of graft - say what you like about Cousins and Jacko but they put in a shift, while others go missing in games (JBG, Reza).
Poyet wants to be a Prem star - but a Cardiff fella went past him with the ball like he didn't exist.
Lord knows what the team thought of Sonogo when he came on to earn his pay against Cardiff - hopefully they took the hint.
We know it's too late - and so do the players, but let's go down with some dignity, instead of 3-0/4-0/5-0/6-0.
Rant over.
Some of the fans have been spoilt. I remember when we were skint, had a whip round to buy a player for 10 grand and a wall as a toilet.
But that's my Charlton and I wouldn't change a thing.
Small minded, short-terminism, head in the sands bullshit about support this hopeless bunch of players is
as destructive as the vermin that is the Belgians and Murray.
I have stayed out of the protests for a couple of weeks because I thought that they would make it less likely that we would win the 2 most recent key home games and felt that solid support would be decisive. For instance, it is my opinion that the protest chants during the game can only have a negative effect on the team. I accept that many CARD activists don't feel this way but a lot of people who sit near me have expressed the same concerns.
Maybe had the protests been put on hold, temporarily, we could have built on the fabulous result at Rotherham and got 4 or even 6 points from these last two tight games. Please don't think I am blaming our fans for the clubs predicament, I'm not, im just specifically talking about the last 2 games. But I understand the need for momentum in the protests although for me it makes more sense to survive first and then continue. After all, it's going to be the likely mass season ticket boycott that is most likely to break the board and that part of the protest is going to happen even if we stay up.
The mocking of Reza as well as a few other chants really annoyed me yesterday and seem as pointless as the booing at the end of the Bristol game and the abuse directed at the team at the end of the Colchester game ( yes I know we were rubbish that day) I've never understood why a supporter would boo or abuse his own team. If I'm p***ed off with the team I just leave without clapping.
I'm usually ever the optimist where Charlton are concerned but the last 2 weeks have almost broken my spirit. Having said all that, the last 15 minutes against Cardiff gave me a glimmer of hope, the crowd really got behind the team and we could have just sneaked it. I really started to get carried away and God knows what my goal celebration would have been like, similar to that of the late winner against QPR 2 years ago.
Opinion is clearly devided on the protests, although not their aim, with most contributors on charlton life being CARD activists or staunchly anti-board. But it seems to me that the only sets of fans being 100% behind continuation of the Charlton protests are those of Bristol City and MK Dons because it surely makes their survival more likely.
I don't spend all game calling Fox a ****, I don't sarcastically cheer Big Mak, and I don't start songs about wanting them out (though I desperately do).
But I'm finding myself less enthused to keep up the positive approach during games (though I think the fans backed the team well yesterday).
Maybe my dislike for Roland / Katrien is starting to override it all, I don't know. But there has been so little on the pitch to relate to this season, previous favourites like Jacko and Solly have been dipping below previous standards, the conveyor belt of unknown foreign players I've never heard of shows no sign of slowing, and the players were clearly not giving 100% at many stages this season, particularly during the Fraeye period.
Nothing would please me more than a rocking Valley getting behind the team for 90 mins then everyone to a man round the back giving them sh*t. Sadly we are drifting to a point where we don't get either.
You are entitled to your opinion but this is 2016 not 1966.
I don't know what team you've been watching, but it bears no resemblance to the one I fell in love with.
The people who are protesting SUPPORT THE CLUB.
They want the club to do well
They want the team to do well.
They want the team to win
But crucially see that the owners aren't helping the team or the club, in fact they are driving it to relegation and lower crowds all the while piling up more debt.
They, the owners, are the ones who are undermining the club through incompetent management and the team through inadequate recruitment not the protesting fans.
There is no pics to being all bitter about what is going on...save it for another day.
I'm afraid the apathetic supporters, of which there are many, know they should be protesting but can't bring themselves to do it so are looking desperately for any excuse to justify their inactivity.
Considering the dire football served up all season, the players are getting surprisingly little criticism BECAUSE we know ultimately it is the regime who are to blame.
leave it those who have always sung, the Covered End to make all the noise and then only show dissatisfaction after the final whistle and the players have been cheered off with encouragement, whilst the majority of the East and West sit silently save only for references to how long they have supported the club during worse times and then drift home five minutes before the end? Just want to get it right