. At the moment I see appointing Riga as saving us from certain relegation so I'm prepared to give RD the benefit of the doubt on this one.
We were 4/9 to stay up at the point of him taking charge, 6/4 to go down. He done a very good job to get us scoring, but we were far from down at the time Powell was sacked. Would of been nice to let Riga carry on his work as he knows all the players, Peeters will not and has to earn their trust, like a merry go round this for the players, no security anywhere.
I fully expect Peeters to be appointed today/tomorrow and of course my default position with any new manager is to give them 100% support, but I can't pretend I'm not very, very concerned at what's happening at our club.
The reason everyone thought we would was because we had just got spanked in the CUP by a very hot Sheff Utd team, every fan including myself was not happy with travelling that, tempers were raging. There is a lot of underlying problems regarding that, every first team staff member on that day was doubting their future at the club, including mostly Powell.. how do you hold a confident team talk if you knew you have gone against the owner and about to be kicked out the club?
If your boss rang you tonight and stuck you in a similar position in regards to your work, you wouldn't be your usual self. The players knew of it as well. Sheff Utd game was not a fair reflection of the league at all.
You can compare him to Curbishley all you like (as it happens, I'd agree with you that Curbs was the better manager - I also agree with you about the different contexts that managers work in), but that really wasn't the point of my post. My aim was to counter the false (or at least highly selective) stats from an earlier poster that Powell's success rate was 25%. Chris Powell managed us for 145 games - fact! Of those games we won 59 - fact! That gives him a win rate - of 40% - fact! You can't manipulate those facts. You can dispute them if you don't think that they are correct, in which case please present something better, but that is the way they are. Chris Powell's record for the whole of his period as Charlton manager shows that he won more games than he lost - 13 more to be precise. That's not re-writing history, that's setting it straight.
The post you mention, one of us has misinterpreted then.... someone said that the last 4no English managers have been pretty poor (after someone else moaned about having a foreign manager). When CP was pointed out as not being poor, the 25% stat was highlighting percentage success rate of the last 4no English managers. I think.
The SLP reports that Bob Peeters has been sacked from his position as Charlton Head Puppet after 4 minutes and 22 seconds for admitting to the Charlton Athletic owner Roland Duchatalet that he prefers Fosters to the Network lager "Stella Artois".
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Didn't Johnnie Jackson deny that though ?
Confirmed.
Let's hope this is the start of a successful and happy era for our Club.
Good luck to all concerned...inc the fans.
:-)
On a serious note though: Welcome to the club Bob, hope you enjoy your time at the club and have a successful period however long it may be