Lowest point ever?
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Just like the 2014 summer rebuild?Swisdom said:Tonight is a new low. Not just in league position but in performance. I just want the season to finish and for us not to get relegated. Then? The mother of rebuilding jobs!
Just like the 2015 summer rebuild?
Just like the 2016 summer rebuild?
No, once we're not relegated we get a new owner. Or this will continue.21 -
Terrible match, awful day.
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Well, they say the darkest hour is just before dawn.
I saw in the news that a company has invented a substance even darker than black. Roland is spending all of next year's transfer budget on it just to make sure it gets properly, impossibly dark before he goes.3 -
A horrible post to 'like', but I couldn't relate to this any more. I'm fully done now, really hope it's only temporary.Sillybilly said:It's the lowest I've felt. Not my club any more. I took a long look before I left as I can't honestly say whether I'll be back or not. Horrible experience tonight. I've been through the anger and vitriol. It's now just an emptiness.
Stayed to watch them get boo-ed off at the end... hoping that the next crop of players, manager and owner I see (or don't in the owner's case) are absolutely nothing like this one.0 -
I've almost given up getting my son to come to matches. Keen to keep the family connection with the club, but looks like it might end with me the way it's going.
He will come to the Swindon match, and then we'll see. It's not like he's a glory hunter. It's just the lack of atmosphere at the ground and the lack of effort on the pitch I think.3 -
Never felt this low about the club! League 2 fills me with the prospect of no return to the CAFC we knew before this lot arrived. Searching for a glimmer of hope for the future... let me know if anyone finds it under a rock or somewhere in SE London.0
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And only 1 win in 14 matches.JamesSeed said:I've almost given up getting my son to come to matches. Keen to keep the family connection with the club, but looks like it might end with me thecwsus it's going.
He will come to the Swindon match, and then we'll see. It's not like he's a glory hunter. It's just the lack of atmosphere at the ground and the lack of effort on the pitch I think.
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I suspended my boycott for this game and bought a ticket for my old seat. Sat next to the bloke I've sat next to for many years. He's not a great fan of the protests and although we used to meet every home game and talk about our lives outside football, tonight was hard work. I tried to initiate conversation and make conversation but I got the feeling our friendship wasn't the same. So a very low point for me. When they feck off where will I sit? I don't feel welcome there any more. Very sad.7
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In my time of supporting the club (since late 80s) yes as was too young to really understand the implications of leaving the Valley and there seemed to be more optimism back in that period than now going by what many who were there at the time say now.
Horrible feeling there tonight and the prick responsible for causing it all nowhere to be seen. Shouldn't be able to ruin clubs like this particularly when you never even bother to show up to witness your complete and utter abject failure.7 -
Did anyone notice the half time birthdays? This was a half term game and all those read out over the tannoy were for 50 and 60 year olds. We are dying as a club. Tried to get my 10 year old and 8 year old to come on their season tickets but had to give it up as a lost cause.5
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We need a "crying" reaction as well as "like" and "lol"BartramBlitz said:Did anyone notice the half time birthdays? This was a half term game and all those read out over the tannoy were for 50 and 60 year olds. We are dying as a club. Tried to get my 10 year old and 8 year old to come on their season tickets but had to give it up as a lost cause.
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It beggars believe that there are still some who don't get the protests. I sit be between a couple of pros (yes yes I know), and a couple of antis. Both good sorts. The antis are still grateful to Roland for 'saving' the club.Arsenetatters said:I suspended my boycott for this game and bought a ticket for my old seat. Sat next to the bloke I've sat next to for many years. He's not a great fan of the protests and although we used to meet every home game and talk about our lives outside football, tonight was hard work. I tried to initiate conversation and make conversation but I got the feeling our friendship wasn't the same. So a very low point for me. When they feck off where will I sit? I don't feel welcome there any more. Very sad.
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As much as I absolutely detest the regime for how they have ripped the heart and soul out of OUR great club, I reserve a special hatred in my heart for the Cardiff fan and his fawning acolytes (though they are probably figments of his warped imagination) who would rather see OUR great club die than admit they are wrong.6
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The only glimmer of hope is that things might be in stasis mode at the moment because we will soon get new owners, as it's a completely rudderless ship at the moment
Indeed that's probably the only thing keeping KR in a job at the moment1 -
The fact that not a single player could wear PC Palmer's name and number on their shirts and be inspired in to putting in a performance worthy of said name and number means for me at least, tonight is as low as it's been5
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Wait, so you guys don't think we've got promotion locked in? Am I missing something?0
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That is because the owner does not care we have a fan killed doing job. Nor does Katrien Meire for that matter.ken_shabby said:We have a fan murdered in the line of duty, and at the match where he was honoured, the owner still can't be nothered to come.
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Christ I'd forgotten about those terrible 90's shorts.McBobbin said:
https://youtu.be/hOMvs_1UFCk
After he sells obviously0 -
Just borrowed this from a Facebook friend -
He's a Brighton fan.........0 -
Just waiting for my £500 win on us to go down comes in. Would probably fund an entire first 11 next season.0
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Or one day's use of a rental boilerup_the_valley said:Just waiting for my £500 win on us to go down comes in. Would probably fund an entire first 11 next season.
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It's almost as if Duchatalet has realised his experiment has failed and is now operating a scorched earth policy to make sure there's nothing left when he finally departs, to teach the vinegar pissers a lesson. I can't see any other explanation for what has happened this season ...5
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To be fair I think the message is starting to sink in over there.mid_life_crisis said:As much as I absolutely detest the regime for how they have ripped the heart and soul out of OUR great club, I reserve a special hatred in my heart for the Cardiff fan and his fawning acolytes (though they are probably figments of his warped imagination) who would rather see OUR great club die than admit they are wrong.
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I have to agree with AFKA, we've seen some rubbish the last 2-3 years thats for sure, but this is a new level, players mentally are gone and thats down to Robinson and his rhetoric a couple of months back, he himself is all over the place which the last 4-5 weeks have shown. We need to limp over the line and pray RD sells ASAP, I still live in hope that the deal is all done but the buyer won't sign on the dotted line until we are safe from relegation.
I've seen many poor Charlton teams over the years, many average or poor players, but this is a whole new ball game and level. It isn't the odd game, it's almost every week.
I have to say if we do go down I think thats it, pretty much game over. If we somehow manage to stay up then it's looks marginally better but only if a new owner arrives. If Roland remains we will be relegated again next year either from league 1 or league 2.
I've been clinging onto some enthusiasm as best i can partly for my daughters, now theirs has totally gone so has mine, don't think I can face Saturday which will be the first home game i've voluntarily missed for a fair few years.
I'm fed up of feeling totally miserable for a few days after every game, it's seriously starting to effect my mental well being. I'm just so angry i've had to wait 6 hours to type this.8 -
Duchatelet is on record somewhere (and I saw it recently albeit in translation) as saying that if something is going wrong he would prefer to let it 'capsize' (translation word) but I think he was saying sink....so that he can build it up again.mogodon said:It's almost as if Duchatalet has realised his experiment has failed and is now operating a scorched earth policy to make sure there's nothing left when he finally departs, to teach the vinegar pissers a lesson. I can't see any other explanation for what has happened this season ...
As I write this I just caught a glimpse of a post above - what has happened to us?
After over 55 years of supporting the club and privileged to have been at the St Andrews and Wembley play-off games and the first game 'back' I no longer have any real desire to attend The Valley.
It isn't Charlton at the moment.
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You my friend, are living in an upside down world.KiwiValley said:Wait, so you guys don't think we've got promotion locked in? Am I missing something?
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last night was truly shocking....only surprise is that I lasted until the 75th minute in the ground0
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I wasn't there last night, as I am boycotting (not a penny more) and had cricket coaching. I did have pangs about going, and but for the coaching might have gone along, but...
The main thing was that as I waited to get into the school where we do the coaching, there were four of us chatting about Charlton - all fans. None of us were going to the game. All of us agreeing that it was toxic and no fun. All of us want Roland to sell. Later when the seniors arrived for their nets, three more were long standing Charlton fans arrived; again, all had chosen cricket nets to watching this pile of doggy do. The pain is there in us all, and we will all be back when Roland has long gone, but the damage he is doing is akin to rape! We have said no, but he continues...
Just sell the club!2 -
Interesting question posed by AFKA.
Next year marks my 50th year since seeing my first Charlton game. Trust me in that time, there have been many occasions when the football has been just as dire as at present. The first 2 seasons in the old third divison in the early 70s and the relegation season of 79/80 come quickly to mind.
But I can never remember a time when all seemed as lost off the pitch as it does now. Not in Michael Gliksten's time nor even when Mark Hulyer and Chief Whathisnme were on the scene or when we uprooted to Sellout.
Plus we've nearly always had a certain type of player at Charlton to see us through the bad days - proper Charlton if you like. From the likes of Went, Treacy, Tees in my very early days to the likes of Nelson, Walsh, Bolder and more recently Kinsella, Rufus, Robinson - players who obviously cared. But those days are now long gone and - Jackson and Solly excluded - never have a bunch of misfits more deserved the ovation of "you're not fit to wear the shirt" than they got last night.
Sadly, I also have to agree that we are once again losing the young generation of fans. Looking around me in the East Stand last night, it was indeed overwhelmingly grey-haired over 50s (and that includes me!). Where is the next generation of fans coming from?
Sad days indeed.8 -
You lasted longer than me I left at half time.Elthamaddick said:last night was truly shocking....only surprise is that I lasted until the 75th minute in the ground
I only went last night to pay my respects to pc.Palmer after that i really didn't want to be there.
When I left at half time there was at least 20 others who walked out as well.
God knows what sort of attendances we will get next season if Roland doesn't sell.
Sad sad times for our club.3
