All summer we were being told about not being able to sign the players we want to sign etc...
So how do some of the clubs in this league manage to put together squads with the resources they have, yet are able to match / beat us?
Look at some of the attendances last night in League 1:
B'pool 3399
Bury 2951
Gills 4002
Oldham 2795
Walsall 3712
None of those have £500m owners yet still manage to get their squads together ok.
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Bury 2951 19th
Gills 4002 22nd
Oldham 2795 23rd
Walsall 3712 13th
Not doubting that our squad is under strength, but, if we were to swap places, other than Blackpool (one point ahead), we would be thinking that we are destined to face a relegation battle.
I have never heard of a catering manager or a person with a law degree being placed in jobs with no previous experience.
KR started the season well and ended it well. Before that we struggled.
Our issue is paying too much for tosh and not enough for quality.
If we still had Igor and Ceballos I think we'd be looking much better than we are.
A well run club with a good manager, decent player recruitment, good tactics and team spirit will quite likely always be better than a poorly run club with no clue on recruitment that churns out managers every 3-4 months, no matter how big/small their attendances are.
It is obvious that we have top 5 resources in this club for this piss poor league, regardless of KR, KM or RD's levels of incompetence. I have never been able to put my finger on why, Charlton, apart from a few halcyon years cannot produce the goods, well enough goods to provide us, the suffering support with a modicum of pride.
I am surely not the only one here with the sixth sense to know what was going to happen last night in Poland. It is always as if they want to dangle the carrot and then drag it away from us, like countless Charlton performances over the decades. I am not asking to be a Man Utd or an Arsenal, I did not follow Charlton Athletic out of a sense of entitlement to trophies, championships and press coverage (and a good job to eh?)
It is just so f&^king frustrating... grrrr!