So when I saw our 🐕💩 performance today... I kept thinking how many times have Charlton owners let us down by losing a player in January when realistically we could have gone onto glory or at least have been competitive had we either held onto them or at least found suitable replacements.
So over to you... In your opinion whose sale and why..
List the player, the owner and the reason it derailed our season:
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Completely fucked us over and in my opinion stopped us from moving to that 'next level'. I'm convinced we'd have finished that season in the top 6 and got into Europe.
Plummented from 2nd when he went to Sunderland
We are still more than likely in playoffs
If Grant stayed would we have got automatics, maybe maybe not we will never know, but in no way has our season been derailed
Selfish talented bastard!
This game was just spectacular in terms of how average we looked.
My list since Roland came is as follows:
Grant January 19
Holmes January 18
Lookman January 17
Morrison January 15
Stephens January 14
Kermorgant January 14
Before then I can only really remember Parker as a mid season sale that really hurt us.
Same as Lookman, did he really remove a chance of success? We weren't going to get promoted even if he stayed.
I do however agree we would obviously stand a much better chance in the play offs if we had Grant.
And of course I am not defending him, I just think the January thing is exaggerated. We have lost key players in most windows, not just January ones.
Same goes for selling Kermorgant and Stephens. Bad decisions in terms of being able to field the very best team possible, but derailed the season? Not really, we were having a crap year even with them, cup run aside.
Only ones that truly led to a collapse in form were Parker and Reid. Both all the more frustrating because at the time we were far less in need of the money than we have been in recent seasons.
“Since the very strong rumours of Grant leaving and him actually leaving, we have failed to score in 4 of our last 9 games. Scoring only 8 goals in that time.
Prior to those rumours and Grant leaving, we failed to score in only 3 of the previous 29 games, two of which coming in August. That means we had failed to score only once in our previous 24 games, away at Rochdale where Taylor missed a penalty.
I said at the time how much we would miss Grant, how many points he won for us, how his goals directly won us an additional 18 points. And I got laughed at and took the criticism. People thought we wouldn’t miss him that much or whatever else.
I am certain that if Grant were still here we would have an extra 4 points at least, as he would have scored probably a further 3 or 4 goals let’s say. That’s the difference between settling for a play-off position and fighting it out for automatics.
I know that it’s gone and this is the post match thread, of which I believe we played okay all things considered, but it is true we are not scoring anywhere near enough goals. There is a big reason for that and he scored twice for Huddersfield in the Premier League yesterday.
With Grant at the club we averaged 1.62 goals per game. Since the partnership of Grant and Taylor was broken and the strong possibility of Grant leaving happened, we have averaged 0.88 goals per game. The same goes for our points per game ratio, 1.83 per game with Grant, 1.55 without. Huge difference.”
We had a double whammy when we lost Reid who did elevate us at Championship level. The problem was that we also bought Gray and had to play him because we spent so much on him and he wasn't right. Iwelumo was a better bet for us.
The man who had zero ambition and saw crowds of 5k in the early 70's because we were shite.
68/69 season was a freak season under his useless tenure.