I know fans are upset or angry or disappointed at what happened last night. Yes it was bad but it's time to calm down and move on now. Because no amount of anger or upset or disappointment will change what happend last night. We need to remember the spirit to get this club back to The Valley. We didn't do it by losing our tempers all the time. Nor this country win wars by losing its temper all the time. We need to in the short term bounce back from last night by getting back what had been gradually improving performances (apart from Swindon) starting with MK away on Boxing Day. And in medium and hopefully not too long term getting the owner to sell up once and for all to get us back to what we used to be as well as removing the CEO from her position. One thing is for sure we are not the first club to have around the world to have a bad defeat and perforamnce in a local derby and we certainly won't be the last either. So we need a Back to The Valley Spirit.
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I think what's brought out this level of anger is all the other issues. When it rains it pours, so to speak.
Ultimately, you're bang on about the spirit we need. We need a little bit of fight and some focus on where it should aimed: those who have put us in this situation.
Defeats happen, more often than they should right now, but Charlton have always gone through shit times. Whens the last time anyone met a glory hunting addick?!
No. Our problem isn't the results, as frustrating as our annual capitulation at The Den is, it's the half empty ground, the insults from our owner and the constant mistakes from those running things. Let's direct our anger towards them.
Aa for Karl? He may be a bullshitter, he may be a chancer and he may be a bit of a lad; but there were signs against Bradford. I dont particularly think he's good for us, but I fear he's the best we're going to get - so let's not give COL a job.
There have been so many abject performances, i go to Charlton games now expecting us to 1) play shit and 2) lose - and i'm normally not disappointed.
The club has a terminal disease, which will result in there no longer being a CAFC in no time at all.
Just wait til the latest financial numbers are released in March and see how much more 'we' owe Duchatelet.
Most people have had enough, walked away from the club, found other things to spend their money on - likely never to be seen again at The Valley.
I hate the stupid idiots who are doing this to OUR club - who do they think they are ?
Genuine question.
And how do we, the fans, get the team to bounce back?
It didn't happen so there is double disappointmentI.
Serve up more dross and the natives will remain restless not just with the regime and all the pleading 'to get behind the team' is only going to fall on deaf ears I'm afraid.
As much as a win, any win, over Millwall would be gratefully received, we can never truly move forward until Duchatelet has gone.
I worry that a win last night would have meant to many that all is rosy in the garden. It isn't and a win against the scum in 3 weeks still won't make it so.
Problem number 2: the basic lack of competence and experience of running a successful football club of Duchatelet and his appointees.
Rest of the problems (unbalanced squad, light squad, players playing out of position, no settled structure) see problems 1 and 2.
I mAy be wrong, in which case "sorry ".
Over 2000 people went to support their team the other night. They were let down by a seriously inadequate performance.
Depending on whose figures you choose to believe between 5000/ 7000 people regularly turn up to watch/ support the team perform in a stadium designed for 4 times that number. They are invariably disappointed with the performance, and/or the atmosphere and or the match day experience. They have suffered increasing disappointment for far too long. It is human nature to respond to such adversity.
Another 5000/ 7000 people have long since walked away.
All have been told by the executive they are largely irrelevant, their memories are meaningless, they are weird, they are dumb/ stupid for holding the values they do. When challenged about the reducing support the executive dismisses their absence as unimportant.
Your call for the unity of back to the Valley is admirable but ignores the divisiveness of an executive who pay lip service to any such goal.
The owner appears to be self obsessed. The club executive reflect the same dynamic. Every action and pronouncement is driven through the prism of protecting their personal interests.
Their stance steadfastly positions the executive and only the executive as being the club.
By their determination if you support the club you have to by definition to support this executive, no matter how calamitously poor their decision making may be. It is an autocracy presenting an exclusive proposition more akin to a cult discipline. The message is "support us or go". It is reminiscent of a Scientology. Any who speak against the "Church" must be targeted, discredited, marginalized no matter the truth we can all behold.
So just who are you expecting supporters to unite behind;
- the owner who is never there?
- the CEO who defames supporters?
- the paranoid COO who introduces draconian security measures on a whim?
- the CFO who is no more than a bookkeeper for Staprix NV
- the worthy club secretary who is in thrall of the executive
- the worthy clubs secretary's spouse who maligns sundry supporters at will
- the 8th manager/ head coach in 3yrs who could be gone in 3 months?
- the 9th manager/ head coach who will appear in 3 months?
- the Senior Playing squad of which 9 will be out of contract at seasons end?
- the 4/5 players who have been in and around the Senior Playing squad for more than 18 months?
- the next influx of 2/3/4/5/6 players drafted in for the next "new" era
Or the spirit you seek to invoke steeped in a history which has been denigrated and dismissed at every turn.
In case you have not noticed there is increasingly nothing of any substance left to unite behind.
I commend your call for a new beginning. I commend your call for a "rebirth of the club" but if you think it can happen in the current environment I fear you are clutching at the thinnest and shortest of straws.
I wonder where we are failing right now?
Then he starts a similar thread a day or two later.
I am now boycotting home games and will not be coming regularly until Roland sells up.
As for the light at the end of the tunnel we all know what that is, but depressingly it is a long time coming