Reading the match thread it looked like we battered them, missed loads of good chances, keeper had a stormer, stonewall penalty denied. We've clearly played much worse this season and drawn 1-1.
A fully firing Magennis and we win that one without much difficulty imo - we've just been very unlucky and Robinson hasn't had the chance to build the squad he wants. It's important he's given the summer to do so.
Short-termist 'THE CLUB IS DEAD', 'KR IS TOAST' bulls**t is not helping anyone. The club is being ineptly run, sure, but given our squad, resources etc I think we've hit our floor. The only way really is up.
I wouldn't be so sure about that last part, but in general I agree.
You have to identify what you have to fix then do it. I'm not sure the people running the club think like that bizarely. I have not seen any evidence of it in any window. Yes, we have made good signings amongst all the dross, but it al seems to be done without a clear plan.
Lookman might well have made the difference today. Even accepting the sale, if Roland had re-invested in a proper striker we might have made something of our chances over the last few games. I don't particularly blame KR. Sack him and replace him with someone else, and it'll make no difference.
Lookman might well have made the difference today. Even accepting the sale, if Roland had re-invested in a proper striker we might have made something of our chances over the last few games. I don't particularly blame KR. Sack him and replace him with someone else, and it'll make no difference.
It's not good enough really is it.
In the window we shipped out Lookman and Ajosi, 2nd & 3rd goalscorers, while bringing in a youngster on loan with zero games in senior footie, while our main striker was injured and his back-up had been out for months ditto our 4th top scorer. Is that backing the manager for a promotion push?
Couldn't be bothered to read the earlier posts but let me guess......we were unlucky; should have won; we'll win the next ten games and make the play-offs; if we don't make the play-offs then Roland will let Robbo bring in his own players in the Summer and then the division is definitely ours for the taking next season; why are people being so negative? I wonder....
First time in years I'd totally forgotten we were playing.
So we lost, not really a surprise. We're the very definition of mediocre, too many draws, little in the way of flair going forward and have looked ropey at the back since Pearce was injured.
Fair play to those going to away games. Personally wouldn't waste money on watching us currently especially on a long away trip.
We now have 3 months of nothingness as we head to a mid table finish. Last time we at least had Powell and new owners in charge, with Roland it's just really depressing.
Reading the match thread it looked like we battered them, missed loads of good chances, keeper had a stormer, stonewall penalty denied. We've clearly played much worse this season and drawn 1-1.
A fully firing Magennis and we win that one without much difficulty imo - we've just been very unlucky and Robinson hasn't had the chance to build the squad he wants. It's important he's given the summer to do so.
Short-termist 'THE CLUB IS DEAD', 'KR IS TOAST' bulls**t is not helping anyone. The club is being ineptly run, sure, but given our squad, resources etc I think we've hit our floor. The only way really is up.
FFS, Robinson hasn't had the chance to build the squad, he won't in the summer and nor will anyone else. A couple of signings here and there prior to season ticket deadlines and the rest of the Lookman money 'invested' elsewhere.
Unless the madman sells, all we will see in the summer is a further decline in season ticket sales and an ever growing disillusionment amongst people like me, as the club they knew and loved drifts ever further away.
The only time we really got going was in the last 10 minutes when Oldham were really sitting back and Holmes and Watt had come on. Watt surely can play more than 10 minutes and he looked very dangerous when he was on.
Konsa and Chicksen looked very poor in the first half and made a lot of mistakes. I could sort of see what we were trying to do by passing it out from the back so often but there just wasn't a creative player in the middle who could find space and do something with the ball.
Oldham didn't look like a good team but we didn't either.
Thats it now, play offs should no longer be mentioned at all. Another year in league one to get excited about.
We need to embrace this defeat. I've jeopardised my marriage to come up here on Valentines Day. However, it's enabled me to treat Cabbles to an all expenses paid trip to Oldham as a late birthday gift. I was looking forward to treating him to a relaxing couple of pints before the match but alas not for the first time this season, we turned up with minutes to spare. The real positive for us tonight was experiencing a new perspective by sitting in a different part of the ground. That's three different perspectives I have encountered at Oldham. Something to tell the grand-children. As the final whistle blew, I implored Cabbles to give up any hope of finding the love of a woman and instead immerse himself in 50 years of obscurity and misery. Roll on Rochdale...
Reading the match thread it looked like we battered them, missed loads of good chances, keeper had a stormer, stonewall penalty denied. We've clearly played much worse this season and drawn 1-1.
A fully firing Magennis and we win that one without much difficulty imo - we've just been very unlucky and Robinson hasn't had the chance to build the squad he wants. It's important he's given the summer to do so.
Short-termist 'THE CLUB IS DEAD', 'KR IS TOAST' bulls**t is not helping anyone. The club is being ineptly run, sure, but given our squad, resources etc I think we've hit our floor. The only way really is up.
Hang on, we've just had a transfer window where Robinson stated he could have brought in more players, but he didn't. Whether Karl was being honest or not, it doesn't matter, either Duchatelet didn't back him financially, or Robinson failed to bring in sufficient quality players to get us into the play offs. Let's remember it was Robinson himself who stated that anything other than the play offs is failure.
So let's say that Robinson WAS at fault and he didn't bring in enough quality, then why should we back him to do things properly at the end of the season? If Duchatelet was at fault, then it's just business as usual when it comes to signing players, so why should we yet again believe it will be any different next time?
Reading the match thread it looked like we battered them, missed loads of good chances, keeper had a stormer, stonewall penalty denied. We've clearly played much worse this season and drawn 1-1.
A fully firing Magennis and we win that one without much difficulty imo - we've just been very unlucky and Robinson hasn't had the chance to build the squad he wants. It's important he's given the summer to do so.
Short-termist 'THE CLUB IS DEAD', 'KR IS TOAST' bulls**t is not helping anyone. The club is being ineptly run, sure, but given our squad, resources etc I think we've hit our floor. The only way really is up.
Hang on, we've just had a transfer window where Robinson stated he could have brought in more players, but he didn't. Whether Karl was being honest or not, it doesn't matter, either Duchatelet didn't back him financially, or Robinson failed to bring in sufficient quality players to get us into the play offs. Let's remember it was Robinson himself who stated that anything other than the play offs is failure.
So let's say that Robinson WAS at fault and he didn't bring in enough quality, then why should we back him to do things properly at the end of the season? If Duchatelet was at fault, then it's just business as usual when it comes to signing players, so why should we yet again believe it will be any different next time?
Look. We are a complete basket case club complete with a silk lining and pig skin straps. The last thing we need is to start calling for a managers head after a handful of games. I'm embarrassed enough being a Charlton supporter already.
We need to embrace this defeat. I've jeopardised my marriage to come up here on Valentines Day. However, it's enabled me to treat Cabbles to an all expenses paid trip to Oldham as a late birthday gift. I was looking forward to treating him to a relaxing couple of pints before the match but alas not for the first time this season, we turned up with minutes to spare. The real positive for us tonight was experiencing a new perspective by sitting in a different part of the ground. That's three different perspectives I have encountered at Oldham. Something to tell the grand-children. As the final whistle blew, I implored Cabbles to give up any hope of finding the love of a woman and instead immerse himself in 50 years of obscurity and misery. Roll on Rochdale...
After setting up my uncle with an account on here in September last year he chooses tonight to make his first post. We did indeed debate whether or not the last time I game to Oldham in 2010 we sat in what was now the home end, and indeed a different perspective/viewpoint. That's how nothing the game was.
I hope this is the first post of many after realising he needed to check his junk folder to verify his account.
He's now dived straight back into his book, The Railway. Nation, network, people by Simon Bradley. That plus a Valentine's trip to Oldham is certainly worth jeopardising his marriage for
We need to embrace this defeat. I've jeopardised my marriage to come up here on Valentines Day. However, it's enabled me to treat Cabbles to an all expenses paid trip to Oldham as a late birthday gift. I was looking forward to treating him to a relaxing couple of pints before the match but alas not for the first time this season, we turned up with minutes to spare. The real positive for us tonight was experiencing a new perspective by sitting in a different part of the ground. That's three different perspectives I have encountered at Oldham. Something to tell the grand-children. As the final whistle blew, I implored Cabbles to give up any hope of finding the love of a woman and instead immerse himself in 50 years of obscurity and misery. Roll on Rochdale...
After setting up my uncle with an account on here in September last year he chooses tonight to make his first post. We did indeed debate whether or not the last time I game to Oldham in 2010 we sat in what was now the home end, and indeed a different perspective/viewpoint. That's how nothing the game was.
I hope this is the first post of many after realising he needed to check his junk folder to verify his account.
He's now dived straight back into his book, The Railway. Nation, network, people by Simon Bradley. That plus a Valentine's trip to Oldham is certainly worth jeopardising his marriage for
Reading the match thread it looked like we battered them, missed loads of good chances, keeper had a stormer, stonewall penalty denied. We've clearly played much worse this season and drawn 1-1.
A fully firing Magennis and we win that one without much difficulty imo - we've just been very unlucky and Robinson hasn't had the chance to build the squad he wants. It's important he's given the summer to do so.
Short-termist 'THE CLUB IS DEAD', 'KR IS TOAST' bulls**t is not helping anyone. The club is being ineptly run, sure, but given our squad, resources etc I think we've hit our floor. The only way really is up.
Hang on, we've just had a transfer window where Robinson stated he could have brought in more players, but he didn't. Whether Karl was being honest or not, it doesn't matter, either Duchatelet didn't back him financially, or Robinson failed to bring in sufficient quality players to get us into the play offs. Let's remember it was Robinson himself who stated that anything other than the play offs is failure.
So let's say that Robinson WAS at fault and he didn't bring in enough quality, then why should we back him to do things properly at the end of the season? If Duchatelet was at fault, then it's just business as usual when it comes to signing players, so why should we yet again believe it will be any different next time?
Look. We are a complete basket case club complete with a silk lining and pig skin straps. The last thing we need is to start calling for a managers head after a handful of games. I'm embarrassed enough being a Charlton supporter already.
He sounds like a dead man walking in that clip almost as if he's close to giving up. Surely he has realised now what he walked into and the impossibility of the task.
He praises the referee despite the penalty non-award and prefers to discuss the ruthlessness of the finishing, which is probably the right way to go about it
Well Robinson was stating the obvious there, we don't score enough goals. I'm sure he is right about them being an honest bunch, but that doesn't really help our predicament. We've played 30 games this season, which is more than enough to make a proper assessment, and ultimately it appears that the squad just isn't good enough to be a top six side.
I'm beginning to think KR is part of the problem, as we are becoming predictable. Every other team knows how he will set us up, and can prepare for it.
Tonight, Oldham were well organised and nullified our attacking play.
At the back, I'm still not convinced by Bauer and Konsa as a duo, I think both need soneone more experienced alongside them.
Should be fuming but just feel numb. I remember saying to a mate that if we finish mid table league 1 hopefully RD will lose interest and just sell up. Can only hope that is the case. Maybe not making play offs is a good thing, cos it certainly ain't happening.
Anybody who remotely thinks that this regime are still good for the club - surely there can't be many - but i keep seeing a few on different fb groups...not been able to bite my tounge either unfortunately as I've had a couple of beers, but anyway anybody who thinks RD and KM are still good for the club need to wake the hell up. He is a vermin and a nasty stain on our clubs great history.
We will get our club back one day it's just nights like these that really hurt and you think back to where we once were and where we are now and you just feel that raw anger coming back again, even though you pretend you don't care, like I do a lot nowadays but it still hurts just the same when you think how far we have fallen because of this Belgian mob. We've been in league one before and I enjoyed it, it's not the division, it's the just the apathy and toxic feeling that surrounds our once great club.
To me there's a few bits to read in-between the lines and I reckon it's a message to those above as much as anything;
1. He's having to play with kids (Konsa, Aribo, Da Silva and Mavididi), he made the point he was having to play a player for his debut, a loan player at that. i.e. lack of depth in squad, all be it Da Silva was out.
2. Questioning his players, if they want to come to him, what it takes to play for Charlton etc....... to me this still means he has players who don't want to be there as I suspect they think they should be playing at a higher level or just want out (Tex, Johnson, Ulvestad, Watt and possibly Konsa).
3. Lack of goals, he knows most aren't good enough but he has little choice on who to play.
Don't know about dead man walking, but he sounds a little defeated in general, not by the results or players as such but the lack of what he feels he needs to do the job. How many times did he say he knows what he needs to do? Thats a cue to 'but someones not letting me'
I wonder, will he be the first one to walk away from the madhouse before he's pushed? If he lasts until the end of the season I can see him having a meeting with RD to say back me, back who I want to buy or I'm off, and he'll be off!
Gonna be at Rochdale this Saturday. Why..? Cause since moving to Perth Western Australia 24 years ago, I never had the chance to watch the only football team I support on planet earth... My regular excursions to the northern hemisphere are during the summer months or to the island of Bali which i'm sure will never compete with Crown oil arena... So, extended my journey to Visit mum in a kibbutz on the border of the Gaza strip in Israel with a 48 hour stop in England. Why..? Cause the Charlton I remember worth it. The Charlton I remember takes to the field with dignity and pride. Even during the dark Selhurst Park years... So I will get up early, dress up very un-Australian, and jump on that train... I will be there for me cause it's about my life. I will be there for the fans. Yes, I will be there for Charlton Athletic... Not expecting a Bolton miracle - its an illusion - I don't want another one... I'd rather suffer one more dreary 1:0 loss in the snow if it helps getting reed of the current cancer of management this club is under... Then I'll go back to my sunny home saying : 'I saw the 2017 Charlton' ...it has got to get worse before it will get better...
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Lookman might well have made the difference today.
Even accepting the sale, if Roland had re-invested in a proper striker we might have made something of our chances over the last few games.
I don't particularly blame KR. Sack him and replace him with someone else, and it'll make no difference.
It's not good enough really is it.
I wonder....
So we lost, not really a surprise. We're the very definition of mediocre, too many draws, little in the way of flair going forward and have looked ropey at the back since Pearce was injured.
Fair play to those going to away games. Personally wouldn't waste money on watching us currently especially on a long away trip.
We now have 3 months of nothingness as we head to a mid table finish. Last time we at least had Powell and new owners in charge, with Roland it's just really depressing.
A couple of signings here and there prior to season ticket deadlines and the rest of the Lookman money 'invested' elsewhere.
Unless the madman sells, all we will see in the summer is a further decline in season ticket sales and an ever growing disillusionment amongst people like me, as the club they knew and loved drifts ever further away.
The only time we really got going was in the last 10 minutes when Oldham were really sitting back and Holmes and Watt had come on. Watt surely can play more than 10 minutes and he looked very dangerous when he was on.
Konsa and Chicksen looked very poor in the first half and made a lot of mistakes. I could sort of see what we were trying to do by passing it out from the back so often but there just wasn't a creative player in the middle who could find space and do something with the ball.
Oldham didn't look like a good team but we didn't either.
Thats it now, play offs should no longer be mentioned at all. Another year in league one to get excited about.
I was looking forward to treating him to a relaxing couple of pints before the match but alas not for the first time this season, we turned up with minutes to spare.
The real positive for us tonight was experiencing a new perspective by sitting in a different part of the ground. That's three different perspectives I have encountered at Oldham. Something to tell the grand-children.
As the final whistle blew, I implored Cabbles to give up any hope of finding the love of a woman and instead immerse himself in 50 years of obscurity and misery.
Roll on Rochdale...
So let's say that Robinson WAS at fault and he didn't bring in enough quality, then why should we back him to do things properly at the end of the season? If Duchatelet was at fault, then it's just business as usual when it comes to signing players, so why should we yet again believe it will be any different next time?
I hope this is the first post of many after realising he needed to check his junk folder to verify his account.
He's now dived straight back into his book, The Railway. Nation, network, people by Simon Bradley. That plus a Valentine's trip to Oldham is certainly worth jeopardising his marriage for
Tonight, Oldham were well organised and nullified our attacking play.
At the back, I'm still not convinced by Bauer and Konsa as a duo, I think both need soneone more experienced alongside them.
Should be fuming but just feel numb. I remember saying to a mate that if we finish mid table league 1 hopefully RD will lose interest and just sell up. Can only hope that is the case. Maybe not making play offs is a good thing, cos it certainly ain't happening.
Anybody who remotely thinks that this regime are still good for the club - surely there can't be many - but i keep seeing a few on different fb groups...not been able to bite my tounge either unfortunately as I've had a couple of beers, but anyway anybody who thinks RD and KM are still good for the club need to wake the hell up. He is a vermin and a nasty stain on our clubs great history.
We will get our club back one day it's just nights like these that really hurt and you think back to where we once were and where we are now and you just feel that raw anger coming back again, even though you pretend you don't care, like I do a lot nowadays but it still hurts just the same when you think how far we have fallen because of this Belgian mob. We've been in league one before and I enjoyed it, it's not the division, it's the just the apathy and toxic feeling that surrounds our once great club.
1. He's having to play with kids (Konsa, Aribo, Da Silva and Mavididi), he made the point he was having to play a player for his debut, a loan player at that. i.e. lack of depth in squad, all be it Da Silva was out.
2. Questioning his players, if they want to come to him, what it takes to play for Charlton etc....... to me this still means he has players who don't want to be there as I suspect they think they should be playing at a higher level or just want out (Tex, Johnson, Ulvestad, Watt and possibly Konsa).
3. Lack of goals, he knows most aren't good enough but he has little choice on who to play.
Don't know about dead man walking, but he sounds a little defeated in general, not by the results or players as such but the lack of what he feels he needs to do the job. How many times did he say he knows what he needs to do? Thats a cue to 'but someones not letting me'
I wonder, will he be the first one to walk away from the madhouse before he's pushed? If he lasts until the end of the season I can see him having a meeting with RD to say back me, back who I want to buy or I'm off, and he'll be off!
Why..?
Cause since moving to Perth Western Australia 24 years ago, I never had the chance to watch the only football team I support on planet earth...
My regular excursions to the northern hemisphere are during the summer months or to the island of Bali which i'm sure will never compete with Crown oil arena...
So, extended my journey to Visit mum in a kibbutz on the border of the Gaza strip in Israel with a 48 hour stop in England.
Why..?
Cause the Charlton I remember worth it.
The Charlton I remember takes to the field with dignity and pride.
Even during the dark Selhurst Park years...
So I will get up early, dress up very un-Australian, and jump on that train...
I will be there for me cause it's about my life.
I will be there for the fans.
Yes, I will be there for Charlton Athletic...
Not expecting a Bolton miracle - its an illusion - I don't want another one...
I'd rather suffer one more dreary 1:0 loss in the snow if it helps getting reed of the current cancer of management this club is under...
Then I'll go back to my sunny home saying :
'I saw the 2017 Charlton'
...it has got to get worse before it will get better...