on paper i think the squad should be good enough for play offs but lets face it ...the players themselves arent fools ,i am sure they know the club is a basket case and they ll perform accordingly mid table this season relegated next
I don't think we'll go down, we have two very good individual players in Holmes and Lookman, that and a defence that is pretty solid should see us to 12th or so. Slade is trying to keep us up rather than take us up, which is pretty disheartening. Leaving Ajose on the bench is inexcusable, as is playing 451 against a team who haven't kept a clean sheet in 26 games. Chesterfield on Saturday, second bottom, one win in ten and lost last four to nil. Surely we get at them from the start, Ajose and Magennis, Holmes and Lookman, 442, attacking football. Surely a manager of his experience can see if we grab a goal we will very likely win. Surely? No alright then, 1-1 it is.
In a tight division it doesn't take much for things to get better or worse. If Holmes picked up a long term injury and a couple of the central defenders miss games through injury or suspension, it all looks a lot shakier. Mid-table looks favourite but anything could happen. If we do get in a serious relegation will this team fight their way out if it?
I look at the table after every game. I also look at the stats on the match report page of the BBC website (like this one http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/37663457). I do so because I post a brief summary on Weibo.com after every game. We've won very few games this season and one thing a follower said to me the other day is that it's getting worrying when even the stats are starting to show you are worse than the opponents. He was right. If it was something like getting beat while having more possession and more shots, then I would still have a little bit of faith and go 'we'll be fine'. But in fact it's looking less and less likely the case and I really think I need to be mentally prepared for a historical low: relegation to League Two.
I watch the early kick-off Premier League matches every week. Last Saturday Bournemouth were playing Spurs, the only unbeaten team in the top flight. I really enjoyed those 90 minutes. The Cherries slightly reminded me of ourselves in the early 2000's. Very small club (much smaller than us I should add), decent atmosphere, great manager, and a team of players working their socks off for him. They look like a unity and unafraid of the big sides. I absolutely envy their fans. They were below us just a few years ago - granted this can be said by many other clubs' fans - yet I can see them challenging for mid-table in the Premier League this year. Harry Arter has become such a great player (I really like watching him play. One of my favourite players now.). Simon Francis did well, too. I'm not gonna go into the discussion of why we let them go because things like this happen in football. I just can't help but wonder what if it was not RD but someone else that took us over in early 2014? Not saying he has anything to do with releasing Arter. Just that probably none of these disasters we've been enduring would have happened. Like I said before, while other mid-sized clubs are progressing, we are in a nightmare that we can't wake up from, and it's getting worse and worse each week. I'm glad for Bournemouth, they're such an inspiring success. But at the same time it hurts to think we won't ever catch up with them, not as long as RD is still the owner. No decent manager would want to come to us.
I used to love looking at the league table and would follow it from game one. Nowadays it means nothing to me, to I just check towards the end of the season that the fools are on course for more failure.
Same here- the last few years it was checking to see how/if we were going to escape relegation and looking at the 'live tables' during the Saturday match. This season rarely looked at league table. Hardly a day goes by that I don't look at Charlton Life though.
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If he plays as he is now, he possibky won't be and can outperform the rest of the season to help with a promotion push
Never let it be said Charlton fans can't be patient and optimistic hey Russ?
"By October, the die is cast"
We lost that game, and were subsequently relegated.
Where are we in the championship now ?
Until the Belgians sell up I have more interest in pretty much anything other than CAFC's performance on the pitch.
Trouble is , It might involve crossing a motorway or two somewhere up north.
I watch the early kick-off Premier League matches every week. Last Saturday Bournemouth were playing Spurs, the only unbeaten team in the top flight. I really enjoyed those 90 minutes. The Cherries slightly reminded me of ourselves in the early 2000's. Very small club (much smaller than us I should add), decent atmosphere, great manager, and a team of players working their socks off for him. They look like a unity and unafraid of the big sides. I absolutely envy their fans. They were below us just a few years ago - granted this can be said by many other clubs' fans - yet I can see them challenging for mid-table in the Premier League this year. Harry Arter has become such a great player (I really like watching him play. One of my favourite players now.). Simon Francis did well, too. I'm not gonna go into the discussion of why we let them go because things like this happen in football. I just can't help but wonder what if it was not RD but someone else that took us over in early 2014? Not saying he has anything to do with releasing Arter. Just that probably none of these disasters we've been enduring would have happened. Like I said before, while other mid-sized clubs are progressing, we are in a nightmare that we can't wake up from, and it's getting worse and worse each week. I'm glad for Bournemouth, they're such an inspiring success. But at the same time it hurts to think we won't ever catch up with them, not as long as RD is still the owner. No decent manager would want to come to us.