At the time we didn't know anything about the new owners, their plans or what method they were going to use to try and get us into the EPL.
We saw them come in and sack Powell, appoint a manager who had work at Inter Milan and signed a few players spending above a million. We hadn't spent that on our whole squad the season before so a lot of people were excited if not confused and it all happened so quickly.
Had we known what RD and KM were all about at the time, I really don't think I would have let the sacking of SCP and the sale of Kerms happen so easily.
They have destroyed this club.
What I would do to have SCP back as our manager, whether that be in League 1 or League 2 I couldn't care less. I just want to be able to go and watch my team, managed by a manager we all love with players who give 100% and that is what you get under Powell.
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I've had conversations with so many people in and around the club over the last few months. The only people who have got a good word for her seem to be those who wouldn't have it so good if someone with good judgement was running the club. Not a single player I talked to at the POTY do had a good word for her, and the speeches to a man markedly overlooked her for a thank you.
The best thing they could do now is sell the club. The second best would be to go grovelling to Powell, apologise, give him full control, win promotion and then fuck right off.
Surely no one thinks whatever they do this season it won't go back to the norm if we get back to the Championship.
If he was back in charge, I'd definitely buy my season ticket - even with these idiots still owning the club.
TIME TO GO
(sorry)
They are the elephant in the room.
Wembley must have seemed a bit odd?
Instead they thought they knew better and wasted a lot of money on the players that aren't good enough or suited to the Championship.
In November KM claimed they spent £9m on players. We'd be in a far better position now if Powell was kept on and allowed to spend even half of that.
I wouldn't have said Rotherham's squad was better than ours but Warnock did a fantastic job, so it's not necessarily about the squad, more what you can get out of it.
Love the man for who he is and what he put into our club but I don't think he's the managerial godsend some people on here do. I would be happy to be proved wrong.
What the club needs right now (aside from new owners, that's a given) is a manager who can bring the heart back to Charlton, to understand what it means to pull on that shirt, what staff the club needs, selecting players that fit the 'Charlton' mould. Name me two other people who could do that, Curbs? Steve Brown? not many others I can think of.
Will SCP take us to the height of the premier league and European football, no, probably not, but I think for now someone who can do all the above and give a good shot at getting us out of League 1 I for one can't think of anyone better.
Sadly, under this regime it's about as likely as Meire keeping her mouth shut for a week. He won't return, unlike Meire he is a proud and principled man and although he must sit there almost daily thinking 'if only' he's too 'decent a chap' to fall for their lies, lies and more damn lies.
Chris Powell stood up to the Rat and put his own team (which badly let him down) out at Sheff Utd, the rest is history.
Many hailed Riga as our hero and saviour, yep games in hand, the bulk of CP's squad and all of CP's backroom staff! And how did Riga, deemed not good enough to retain after his 'miracle' act in 2014 get on second time round? He sold his soul to the devil and was found out.
CP is well out of it and no way should he return to this madhouse and neither will he. Rant over.