After today, no. Sanogo banned for maybe three games, no real attacking threat other than Harriott who is improved but not totally amazing, Lookman benched for sale, Hendo not even in the squad maybe for similar reasons.
Still the spanners have enjoyed league 1 this season and once our loanees and quality players go over the summer, we can expect a good mid table league 1 squad where every week the away support kindly points out that our ground is too big for us. If anyone goes to hear them..
No. We have a group of players who are, en masse, not good enough for the Division. Even including the walking wounded, we have less than a handful of players who would get a gig in any other Championship team. A very high percentage of them are not good enough for League One. (As evidenced by the fact we lost to Colchester, the worst team in that Division by a country mile.) The evidence is strongly supported by losing PSFs to Southend and Chelmsford in the immediate build up to the start of the season. Fucking Chelmsford for Christ's sake! We didn't just lose those matches, we were outplayed in them. League One is going to be a real, real struggle next season.
What go bankrupt and not bother paying debts, then spend fortunes again trying to get to the PL? Well we can do the first bit but not the later.
And No to the staying up as well.
Leicester and Southampton were languishing in the 1st/3rd division not so long ago .. as @DRAddick writes, bankruptcy then being bought for a song and yet then attracting multi millionaire owners, along with shrewd player development and signings and good team management has worked wonders for the above two clubs.
Two linked situations (sorry, I will be pessimistic here) will legislate against us 'doing a Leicester' .. 1) Many potential buyers have looked at and rejected us, hence we are in the hands of the great failed experimenter who seems to want to go down like the Titanic whilst still remaining on the bridge or at the helm, pick your own metaphor .. and 2) Sorry, CAFC is a small club by London standards, small in an overcrowded market where clubs are spending hundreds of millions on new stadia to attract the 'floating' or disillusioned fan. We are just not pretty nor desirable enough to attract the suitors and the cash needed for even the hint of a stab at life in the Premier League
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Oh well it was nice whilst it lasted, typical bloody Charlton.
Still the spanners have enjoyed league 1 this season and once our loanees and quality players go over the summer, we can expect a good mid table league 1 squad where every week the away support kindly points out that our ground is too big for us. If anyone goes to hear them..
Mind you, with our defence it takes 7 goals to get one point.
We have a group of players who are, en masse, not good enough for the Division. Even including the walking wounded, we have less than a handful of players who would get a gig in any other Championship team.
A very high percentage of them are not good enough for League One. (As evidenced by the fact we lost to Colchester, the worst team in that Division by a country mile.) The evidence is strongly supported by losing PSFs to Southend and Chelmsford in the immediate build up to the start of the season. Fucking Chelmsford for Christ's sake!
We didn't just lose those matches, we were outplayed in them.
League One is going to be a real, real struggle next season.
Two linked situations (sorry, I will be pessimistic here) will legislate against us 'doing a Leicester' ..
1) Many potential buyers have looked at and rejected us, hence we are in the hands of the great failed experimenter who seems to want to go down like the Titanic whilst still remaining on the bridge or at the helm, pick your own metaphor .. and
2) Sorry, CAFC is a small club by London standards, small in an overcrowded market where clubs are spending hundreds of millions on new stadia to attract the 'floating' or disillusioned fan. We are just not pretty nor desirable enough to attract the suitors and the cash needed for even the hint of a stab at life in the Premier League