I'd feel a whole lot more optimistic if we still had Taylor, Gallagher and Leko in the team! As it is, we know we will compete and not lay down, but I have no confidence we will get the result we want and thus we rely on other results going our way. I'm terrified of another relegation. I've witnessed many relegations over the years but this could be a defining moment in our history. Coupled with the new reality of a Covid future and the unresolved and contradictory ownership situation and possible EFL intervention, the future looks unprecedented in its grimness. Of course those factors will be in play whatever league we are in, but a relegation would be a catastrophe imo. I'm hoping for the best but fearing the worst
I’ve desensitised a bit over the last few months. The nonsense off the pitch has taken its toll on me and not being able to attend games has made it all feel not quite real (bar the usual Millwall shitshow).
I’m expecting the worst so anything else is going to be a bonus.
I am off out tonight with my dad (who is a lifelong Charlton fan), sister and Mrs....to the Tudor rose in Upnor.....hopefully they won't have any sports programmes.....
Nervous, hopeful because we have a reasonable record against Leeds, but resigned to it all going completely tits up, possibly ending with the club in administration.
nervous .. optimistic one minute, pessimistic the next .. given the state of the precarious ownership situation and the potentially bleak economic outlook surrounding the pandemic, the results tonight across the league will be absolutely vital for the long term future of our club. I just wish that I could be at Elland Road to be a part of it, for good or ill … Come on you Addicks !!!
I don't know whether the sick feeling I have is because of tonight's game and all its uncertainties, in terms of relegation or staying up, losing LB and players, or because the ownership issues have drained my love of the game. Whatever happens tonight, the sorry saga that is our wonderful club's life at the moment is so depressing. I have never hated a group of 'businessmen' so much in my life and am so disillusioned by the lack of morality on show by said people. Regardless, the Eynsford gang will cheer on our boys tonight, sink a few wines and beers, all the while praying for miracles on white chargers with AB and PV on their chest armour coming over the horizon. COYRs we can do this... and stuff my brother's team: Leeds United!!
You dont go down because of the last game but you do go down because of the other games. Its easy to see whats gone wrong and there have been lots of things going very wrong for years. So I came to terms with this shit show a long time ago. There was ground for optimism last May but the reality was that Belgium didnt plan for us having such talented coaching staff, another false dawn. If we win tonight we are still screwed so the result if it went our way would only be a temporary reprieve. Better have the bullet in the head and get it over with.
I will always be Charlton but I really couldn't care less any more, whatever happens tonight means very little to me. Much, much more to life than football. Good luck to you all expressing your feelings on here later. Sad really.
I expect the worst. this season was such a waste of potential for various reasons including poor ownership. there was a championship ready side with 22 points sitting 2nd earlier this season. how wrong I was to expect a mid table finish
Orient in 78, Bolton in 83, Leeds in 87, Chelsea in 88, and the many Lennie inspired escapes. We’ll stay up by the skin of our teeth, against the odds.
Seen it all before. It'll probably be a bit worse because you can't see it in person but hey ho. It seems a very long time since I watched us beat Stoke 3-1 on the opening day and it will be a relief just to get it finished. Whatever the outcome, I've actually preferred the countless relegation scraps to the boring end of season, nothing seasons.
I’ve desensitised a bit over the last few months. The nonsense off the pitch has taken its toll on me and not being able to attend games has made it all feel not quite real (bar the usual Millwall shitshow).
I’m expecting the worst so anything else is going to be a bonus.
This with knobs on. Just like when we dropped out of the Premier League under Pardew we've had our chances to get out of this and messed them up. It's the Charlton way.
Confused mostly. All this nonsense with the EFL and their statements and associated news has put my brain into a spin. If we stay up, are we going to be able to compete in the league next season? And if we are, can we sign anyone? We've got key first team players out of contract and a million loans about to come to an end. We'll then have a month to bring in a whole host of new players (with what money?) just to be able to fill out a squad before the new season starts. Even if we don't have an embargo, sssuming it's pure shenanigans from here on out even if we stay up we'll probably be looking at getting tonked anyway as a midfield of Dempsey and Vennings gets run over by whichever stack of dickheads Lyle Taylor signs for. Plus, apparently, we've got to play a football match tonight.
Bricking it, nervous energy has almost burnt me out already.
In the great scheme of things I know tonight isn't the be all and end all. We could stay up and ownership situation could take a turn for the worse (yes that's possible) or we could go down and it be resolved.
When the fixtures 1st came out I was hopping they would be champions and we would be safe so me and my mates could enjoy the game. The worst part for me, working on Leeds, is IF we go down it won't be because of the preveous 45 games it will just be on tonight's result.
Also as others have hinted at this would be a hard relegation to swallow, despite the off the field stuff, as previous relegation I have experienced have always felt some what inevitable.
I’ve desensitised a bit over the last few months. The nonsense off the pitch has taken its toll on me and not being able to attend games has made it all feel not quite real (bar the usual Millwall shitshow).
I’m expecting the worst so anything else is going to be a bonus.
This 100%. Football is a business now run by scammers and morons. Just glad I am old enough to have experienced the good times.
How am I feeling. Awful, full of trepidation, expecting the worst. This is Charlton for god sake. Although tonight's game is obviously important, I've think our future is going to be sorted in the next couple of days. Squeaky bum time.
I've been supporting Charlton for nearly sixty years and this has to be the worst season of the lot. Even worst than season when we nearly went out of business, at least that episode lasted a fairly short time. This has been such a long roller coaster of euphoria to the depths of despair, not helped by the lock down. From the early season brilliant results, losing Taylor to a injury hit squad and the inevitable slide in results. The celebration when the new owners took over only to find they were crooks and chancers, probably the worst owners we've ever had. Losing Gallagher and not replacing him with quality. The good early results when the season resumed. The disappointment of drawing with Birmingham in injury time after leading for so long. Being in the depths of despair when losing to Wigan, to celebration when we managed to level in injury time. So to tonight. I'm going to avoid looking at the result until 9.30 but will spend a couple of hours wandering about the house and worrying. And still our future is not certain. How Lee and his management team have managed to keep going is the only bright spot in this bastard of a season. My old long departed neighbour once said. "Being a football supporter is tantamount to masochism". How right he was.
Calmer than I thought I would be. Now in my eighth decade of supporting the Addicks I will accept relegation if we end in the bottom three alongside Wigan and Wednesday. If we end up in the bottom three alongside two from Hull, Luton and Barnsley because the EFL have bottled the decision to penalise Wigan for going into administration, and for failing to penalise Wednesday for cheating the system, then my days of watching Charlton, and live football, are over. This will probably make me sound like the old fogey I've become, but how I miss football in the sixties and early seventies when everything was so much simpler, and when today's so called stars such as Mr Lyle Taylor couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Johnny Summers, Stuart Leary, Keith Peacock, Colin Powell, Peter Reeves and the inimitable Derek Hales.
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As it is, we know we will compete and not lay down, but I have no confidence we will get the result we want and thus we rely on other results going our way.
I'm terrified of another relegation.
I've witnessed many relegations over the years but this could be a defining moment in our history.
Coupled with the new reality of a Covid future and the unresolved and contradictory ownership situation and possible EFL intervention, the future looks unprecedented in its grimness.
Of course those factors will be in play whatever league we are in, but a relegation would be a catastrophe imo.
I'm hoping for the best but fearing the worst
I'll spend the day thinking up cutting responses to the inevitable witty texts from spanner chums.
Got plenty of other more important stuff going on to let the predictability of supporting Charlton make it worse.
I do however wish the players and LB good luck, they deserve a bit of fortune.
I just wish that I could be at Elland Road to be a part of it, for good or ill … Come on you Addicks !!!
Regardless, the Eynsford gang will cheer on our boys tonight, sink a few wines and beers, all the while praying for miracles on white chargers with AB and PV on their chest armour coming over the horizon.
COYRs we can do this... and stuff my brother's team: Leeds United!!
Its easy to see whats gone wrong and there have been lots of things going very wrong for years. So I came to terms with this shit show a long time ago.
There was ground for optimism last May but the reality was that Belgium didnt plan for us having such talented coaching staff, another false dawn.
If we win tonight we are still screwed so the result if it went our way would only be a temporary reprieve.
Better have the bullet in the head and get it over with.
Sit back, relax and know at the end of the day we'll either stay up or be relegated. Either way the planet keeps on turning.
In the great scheme of things I know tonight isn't the be all and end all. We could stay up and ownership situation could take a turn for the worse (yes that's possible) or we could go down and it be resolved.
When the fixtures 1st came out I was hopping they would be champions and we would be safe so me and my mates could enjoy the game. The worst part for me, working on Leeds, is IF we go down it won't be because of the preveous 45 games it will just be on tonight's result.
Also as others have hinted at this would be a hard relegation to swallow, despite the off the field stuff, as previous relegation I have experienced have always felt some what inevitable.
Even worst than season when we nearly went out of business, at least that episode lasted a fairly short time.
This has been such a long roller coaster of euphoria to the depths of despair, not helped by the lock down.
From the early season brilliant results, losing Taylor to a injury hit squad and the inevitable slide in results.
The celebration when the new owners took over only to find they were crooks and chancers, probably the worst owners we've ever had.
Losing Gallagher and not replacing him with quality.
The good early results when the season resumed.
The disappointment of drawing with Birmingham in injury time after leading for so long.
Being in the depths of despair when losing to Wigan, to celebration when we managed to level in injury time.
So to tonight.
I'm going to avoid looking at the result until 9.30 but will spend a couple of hours wandering about the house and worrying.
And still our future is not certain.
How Lee and his management team have managed to keep going is the only bright spot in this bastard of a season.
My old long departed neighbour once said.
"Being a football supporter is tantamount to masochism".
How right he was.
This will probably make me sound like the old fogey I've become, but how I miss football in the sixties and early seventies when everything was so much simpler, and when today's so called stars such as Mr Lyle Taylor couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Johnny Summers, Stuart Leary, Keith Peacock, Colin Powell, Peter Reeves and the inimitable Derek Hales.