A long slow painful death?

hoof_it_up_to_benty

The last few years seem to have been a journey towards a long slow painful death for Charlton Athletic. I have no idea what effect today's protests will have on reversing the decline given that I no longer have a clue what the owner wants.
We are effectively fighting an almost invisible enemy who nobody seems to understand.
I feel massive sadness at the situation and I desperately hope there is a happy ending.

Derek1952

Every cloud has a Silver Lining

The_President

We'll get there Hoof it - it might take time , but we'll get there.

stonewallpenalty

It feels more like a long slow painful life.

Henry Irving

To misquote Jack London

Image the heel of a shoe repaired with gaffer tape grinding down into your face forever; that is the future.

Bromley Graham

Interesting that before a ball had been miskicked at the start of the Season, the Bookies had us as second favorites to be Relegated. Clever people or did Roland have a few bob on that to happen?.

soapboxsam

The history books will tell our Grand children who are not born yet
whether March 13th 2016 was;

The beginning of the end for CAFC.
The end of the beginning for CAFC.

I do agree that we can't be sure the result of today's protests but
Apathy and people working long hours was the reason that the shocking regime under the Glikstens family, lasted right up to 1982.

No excuse for apathy now.

Welly

Well said Hoof, just feel the rat is rich enough to keep turning the screw
on us and watch us s.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

I will be devastated if this b****** destroys our club - not sure what will move him on. There seems no sensible explanation for his behaviour.
He sure is one f***ed up individual and as for KM......

soapboxsam

A day may come when the courage of Charlton men and Woman fails, when we forsake our club and break all bonds of fellowship– but it is not this day.
Look to the sky;
Beware the fans in March.

AddickFC81

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

I will be devastated if this b****** destroys our club - not sure what will move him on. There seems no sensible explanation for his behaviour.
He sure is one f***ed up individual and as for KM......

DW, we won't let the c***!

Redskin

I have a vodka-Martini hangover and feel like I'm dying, but am looking forward to today for some bizarre reason.
The club isn't dying, it's just ill.The malady will pass and there will be long convalescence.
Charlton won't die, it has an indestructible constitution...

Stig

soapboxsam said:

The history books will tell our Grand children who are not born yet
whether March 13th 2016 was;

The beginning of the end for CAFC.
The end of the beginning for CAFC.

I do agree that we can't be sure the result of today's protests but
Apathy and people working long hours was the reason that the shocking regime under the Glikstens family, lasted right up to 1982.

No excuse for apathy now.

I am well up for today, but I'm not convinced that the outcome either way will be so pronounced. This is just one battle in a long war of attrition. Our most visible and largest battle to date, but still one of many nonetheless. We shouldn't expect Roly to capitulate immediately as the result of one televised protest. Today is about upping the ante, it's about showing the world that we are serious, it's about sharpening the picture to help the myopic money-lender see that he's got things completely and irrevocably wrong. We need to remember that just because the regime doesn't disappear immediately doesn't mean that we haven't sown more seeds of doubt in Roly's addled brain. And let's face it, we are unlikely to see immediate results. Even if today persuaded the Belgian on to go, he's unlikely to make any public pronouncements about it, his style is to play things closer to his chest. So, do your bit, enjoy the protests and let's put another nail in the stay-pricks coffin, but don't expect the world.

ShootersHillGuru

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