Ok ladies and gentlemen, the runners and riders are in (not all of them as yet) but the general consensus is that we’re going in the right direction.
Colours to the mast, (no pressure) where do you think we will finish in League one this season?
Personally I am bored of schlupping around the country to tinpot grounds, and am desperate to get out of this division.
I know people will say it’s ridiculous to call it before the seasons started, give it 10 games , than we’ll have a better picture, and that’s totally fair comment.
As things stand I’m going for a 5th place finish, if we get a few more decent players in , in the right positions we could be 2nd.
Its a huge jump up from finishing mid table for the last 2 seasons, to then challenging to get out of the division,, hard, but not mission impossible.
I know people will say it’s putting pressure on ourselves (pressure can be a good thing if you have a strong mindset) but colours to the mast as of today 5th.
We’re probably going to sign Ladapo, Nombe, and anyone else with a ‘hot pair of boots’ after I type this and make my prediction worthless. :-0
And yes I did say ‘hot boots, and not something else.
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My thinking at moment is we need to improve squad with the correct players and not to be too reliable on the Youth.
Really need to get Leaburn back to full fitness as this wil indeed be important for us.With one full season behind him he is are main man.
Glad for the time being we have at least one extra true Charlton man working behind the scene, clever move.
Then if you add in Fraser, CBT, Anderson, Payne, Campbell, Camara and maybe Kirk if he stays then you'd like to think that's around 80 goals already.
Throw in a few occasional goals from a defender and we're looking at around 85. Not many teams score that many and aren't in the hunt for automatic promotion.
Maybe i'm getting carried away and obviously it depends on player availability but i don't think these tallies are wildly unrealistic - May 20, Nombe 15, Leaburn 12, Aneke 3, Fraser 8, CBT 6, Anderson 5, Payne 4, Campbell 3, Kirk 3, Camara 2, all defenders 4. Total 85.
The goalies need to baffle it out and not let mistakes turn into a habit...parrying shots straight to forwards, poor distribution, etc.
Last year's predictions weren't too bad.
However we need to continue with the amount of goals scored as per last season but defensively we conceded far too many and I’m not sure we have done enough so far to rectify that if we want to push for a minimum of a top 6 finish
Plus players that can play 35 or more league starts to get that consistency needed.
Last season as shown below showed that up
2021-22 I predicted 13th. We finished 13th
2022-23 I predicted 12th. We finished 10th.
This season I predict 4th.
the longer we stay in it the lower our finishing position