I'm sticking with my 7th-12th at present. Signs are great but I'm still really worried if we lose Magennis and se Silva to injury or suspension because we are still very thin and shaky in those positions.
I can't see Duchatelet and Meire finding the extra money to bring in high quality additions to the squad in January either, when prices are always super-inflated.
Exactly this. I had 8th place in mind when I did the last poll. With a second decent striker in the squad I would be upgrading, but there isn't, there won't be, and Magennis will pick up an injury probably as a result of being over played. He is one of the few players who is busy over the international break, while being asked to cope with a 46 game league.
IMO, SCP's squad that started the season was already better than this - better keepers, no first choices were loans. And then he added YK.
So no change. I hope I am wrong, starting with a win tmrw night.
Ideally we would have rested him for the Southend match.
I'm sticking with my 7th-12th at present. Signs are great but I'm still really worried if we lose Magennis and se Silva to injury or suspension because we are still very thin and shaky in those positions.
I can't see Duchatelet and Meire finding the extra money to bring in high quality additions to the squad in January either, when prices are always super-inflated.
Exactly this. I had 8th place in mind when I did the last poll. With a second decent striker in the squad I would be upgrading, but there isn't, there won't be, and Magennis will pick up an injury probably as a result of being over played. He is one of the few players who is busy over the international break, while being asked to cope with a 46 game league.
IMO, SCP's squad that started the season was already better than this - better keepers, no first choices were loans. And then he added YK.
So no change. I hope I am wrong, starting with a win tmrw night.
Ideally we would have rested him for the Southend match.
It's not typical Charlton, but with the side we've got and the way we play, maybe we're going to have one of those seasons where a team wins a lot, loses a fair number and draws few. A real roller-coaster ride. That's if we're reasonably lucky with injuries. Something like 23-8-15 (77pts)?
I thought I'd wait until after the Wigan game before answering & glad I'm did. No change for me, I think we'll make the play offs & then it's somewhat of a lottery.
It's not typical Charlton, but with the side we've got and the way we play, maybe we're going to have one of those seasons where a team wins a lot, loses a fair number and draws few. A real roller-coaster ride. That's if we're reasonably lucky with injuries. Something like 23-8-15 (77pts)?
That's how I see it.
We don't play the percentage game that Powell and other promotion winning managers play unless they have an exceptionally talented squad. Our style may be easy on the eye against most teams but when it comes to the crunch we will not accumulate enough points.
389 voted at the start of the season, 265 of you voted for this latest one. I'm sure that will mean something in the real world and what it means for a proper comparison, but I'll just choose to ignore that
I think there should be one after every game and maybe 2 or 3 during the match and have cabbles doing a Jon Snow swingometer thing as we lurch from Champions to Relegation and back again.
Comments
League winners by Easter.
No change for me, I think we'll make the play offs & then it's somewhat of a lottery.
We don't play the percentage game that Powell and other promotion winning managers play unless they have an exceptionally talented squad. Our style may be easy on the eye against most teams but when it comes to the crunch we will not accumulate enough points.
Just outside the playoffs for me.
The results are below. No doubt the mathematicians among you will pick it apart further, but I'm just going to do a like for like comparison
Poll at the start of the season:
Champions: 7% - 31 votes
Automatic promotion: 14% - 57 votes
Play off winners: 5% - 22 votes
Play offs: 29% - 115 votes
7th - 12th: 31% - 122 votes
13th - 20th: 9% - 38 votes
Relegation: 1% - 4 votes
Poll one month in:
Champions: 8% - 23 votes
Automatic promotion: 33% - 89 votes
Play off winners: 4% - 12 votes
Play offs: 32% - 86 votes
7th - 12th: 16% - 44 votes
13th - 20th: 2% - 7 votes
Relegation: 1% - 4 votes
389 voted at the start of the season, 265 of you voted for this latest one. I'm sure that will mean something in the real world and what it means for a proper comparison, but I'll just choose to ignore that
Next week's poll: WILL BREXIT BE A SUCCESS
PS - I don't mean old crab stick either