He' s had the last laugh this season.(spending twice the normal transfer budget) and still helping to get us relegated with his poor signings etc,but we will have the best laugh next season.
I know we all have a vested, emotional, interest in the the Chalton-Dowie affair, but the thing you've got to remember is that he was trying to do his best for the club.
Yeah, so he made some bad buys and wasted some money, but he wouldn't have done that intentionally. It happens in every industry - someone gets appointed to a new job and it doesn't work out. Ok, so we don't know all of the exact details of what went on behind the scenes, but I'm sure he wanted to win as much as the rest of us.
I'm not going to sing his name and praise him to the heavens when he visits, but I will give some polite applause for the breath of fresh air he breathed into the club last summer. We all knew we had a tough first 8 games, yet we still played some reasonably attractive football compared to what we'd been used to.
It wasn't the buys that killed us, it was changing half a mid-table team in one go, continually playing Faye and Traore + two up front - and failing vs Fulham (a) and Watford (h).
Carson and Diawara were good signings but where was the striker and centre mid with all that money?
Looking forward to Coventry (a) and the rest - but for one year only please!
reid was a long hamstring injury.jfh just didn't score goals that he always had and maybe the coaching team that the board employed could not handle dowie who possibly could not handle the constraints that he undertook.
i really believe dowie was passionate about winning with charlton and maybe the job was beyond him.fortunately the board recognised their mistake in their third appointment of the season,got rid of reed and let pardew have his own man.
[cite]Posted By: F-Blocker[/cite] I'm not going to sing his name and praise him to the heavens when he visits, but I will give some polite applause for the breath of fresh air he breathed into the club last summer.
I reckon you've got it about right there.
He had a hard act to follow, he took the job on- it was, on balance more than he was capable of, he made some mistakes, quite probably as a result of the pressure both put on him and by his desire to succeed, and got the sack.
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There are no winners in the Charlton-Dowie affair.
Yeah, so he made some bad buys and wasted some money, but he wouldn't have done that intentionally. It happens in every industry - someone gets appointed to a new job and it doesn't work out. Ok, so we don't know all of the exact details of what went on behind the scenes, but I'm sure he wanted to win as much as the rest of us.
I'm not going to sing his name and praise him to the heavens when he visits, but I will give some polite applause for the breath of fresh air he breathed into the club last summer. We all knew we had a tough first 8 games, yet we still played some reasonably attractive football compared to what we'd been used to.
Carson and Diawara were good signings but where was the striker and centre mid with all that money?
Looking forward to Coventry (a) and the rest - but for one year only please!
i really believe dowie was passionate about winning with charlton and maybe the job was beyond him.fortunately the board recognised their mistake in their third appointment of the season,got rid of reed and let pardew have his own man.
I reckon you've got it about right there.
He had a hard act to follow, he took the job on- it was, on balance more than he was capable of, he made some mistakes, quite probably as a result of the pressure both put on him and by his desire to succeed, and got the sack.
In all walks of business, this happens everyday.