New low?
Failure to beat the team bottom of the league with a 2-0 head start who haven't been paid
Players either playing within themselves (eg JBG) or showing an alarming loss of form (eg Cousins)
A striker being ridiculed by his own fans
A manager booed to the tunnel staring at the hand signals being given by the Covered End
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He's not a manager, I keep saying
Mind you he's no fudging head coach either....1 -
Yes. Very much so.
I am now convinced we will be relegated unless something dramatic happens and the board have a complete rethink on how to tackle the Championship.3 -
Worse than when we went down last time? I think so and we're not even down.1
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What was tonight's crowd? Tbf it looked like more than I was expecting.0
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See that white flag? That's ours that is?3
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12,000 odd. But I expect it was more like 8,000 without the season ticket holders who didn't go.jamescafc said:What was tonight's crowd? Tbf it looked like more than I was expecting.
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If we down this season we wont come back.0
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Team or fans?0
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And these all being the least of our problems, looking at the bigger picture, is the sad thing...AFKABartram said:A Coca Cola cup crowd for a league game
Failure to beat the team bottom of the league with a 2-0 head start who haven't been paid
Players either playing within themselves (eg JBG) or showing an alarming loss of form (eg Cousins)
A striker being ridiculed by his own fans
A manager booed to the tunnel staring at the hand signals being given by the Covered End1 -
JBG, can fuck off he ain't interested, so is irrelevant to me.3
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Very true AFKA and how needless.
When RD arrived we had a manager whom the crowd, on the whole, loved and would get behind and back through thick and thin. One with a knowledge of UK football and whom had been player rep to the PFA, what a black book of contacts he must have. We had a passionate, young, gifted coaching staff who believed in each other and created comrade and team spirit. We had the nucleus of a competitive Championship squad that had been under invested in (Yann, Stephens, Poyet, Solly, Wiggins, Morrison, Dervite) and we had some serious youth players coming through the ranks.
The Valley/pitch needed money spent but could be factored into any purchase price and the training ground needed work but plans /funding were all broadly in place.
We had a reasonable crowd (previous owners trying to pretend the 18,000 was in fact 20,000) and fans that had huge knowledge to be learned from and carefully bought back into the fold, even in voluntary advisory roles.
We were bought by a man of real money and what seemed a reasonable background...oh the hope!
£9M of backing to the existing manager, retaining the players he advised, no fiddling with network rubbish and I genuinely believe we could be sat here today with a genuinely competitive team/squad (say top 10), with 15-20,000 fans and with one eye on the PL.
Instead we have our 5th manager, a naive CEO, a poor recruitment policy, two of the jewels (Gomez and Poyet) have gone for little return, a disgruntled and dwindling fan base and stare relegation back to League One in the face.
A total destruction of all equity invested and a disaster for everyone.71 -
The most aggravating, annoying thing about all of this is a lot of us could see it coming a mile off.
Miere is being worked like a glove puppet by some lunatic, the managers are all glove puppets of a regime they should hang their heads in shame to represent. As soon as we saw what the pant-sniffers did when they took over in selling Stephens and Kermorgant, telling the manager to play some truly abominable footballers.
It's sad in its predictability14 -
We are only staying up based on three other clubs being worse than us. I think we might get lucky in that sense0
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Don't blame the poor old Isle of White.
What's the next protest ? Balloons at 17 minutes.
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Good post, Athletico.. precisely, all so needless.
Charlton 'what might have been' Athletic.
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Great post Athletico.
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You keep staying at home mate, I would suspect most of us would prefer it that way no matter what our league position.PL54 said:Don't blame the poor old Isle of White.
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Why ?cafcbart92 said:
You keep staying at home mate, I would suspect most of us would prefer it that way no matter what our league position.PL54 said:Don't blame the poor old Isle of White.
What's the next protest ? Balloons at 17 minutes.
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I'd quite like to mow this post into Roland's front garden lawnAthletico Charlton said:Very true AFKA and how needless.
When RD arrived we had a manager whom the crowd, on the whole, loved and would get behind and back through thick and thin. One with a knowledge of UK football and whom had been player rep to the PFA, what a black book of contacts he must have. We had a passionate, young, gifted coaching staff who believed in each other and created comrade and team spirit. We had the nucleus of a competitive Championship squad that had been under invested in (Yann, Stephens, Poyet, Solly, Wiggins, Morrison, Dervite) and we had some serious youth players coming through the ranks.
The Valley/pitch needed money spent but could be factored into any purchase price and the training ground needed work but plans /funding were all broadly in place.
We had a reasonable crowd (previous owners trying to pretend the 18,000 was in fact 20,000) and fans that had huge knowledge to be learned from and carefully bought back into the fold, even in voluntary advisory roles.
We were bought by a man of real money and what seemed a reasonable background...oh the hope!
£9M of backing to the existing manager, retaining the players he advised, no fiddling with network rubbish and I genuinely believe we could be sat here today with a genuinely competitive team/squad (say top 10), with 15-20,000 fans and with one eye on the PL.
Instead we have our 5th manager, a naive CEO, a poor recruitment policy, two of the jewels (Gomez and Poyet) have gone for little return, a disgruntled and dwindling fan base and stare relegation back to League One in the face.
A total destruction of all equity invested and a disaster for everyone.8 -
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From 18,000 to 8,000 in 23 months, that sums it up for me1
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Forget the nonsense that the club sold ten thousand season tickets this season. Someone at the club has got the figures wrong by a couple of thousand at least. Three thousand not turning up every home game is not right. A thousand tops yes.
They didn't include the duplicates in their final total then, for the season tickets lost in the post?
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Can anyone honestly see RD changing the way he's running the club? I cannot see how we get out of this. The club is being run so poorly on all levels. I have lost a lot of interest, but more saddening is my 10 year old really doesn't give a sh!t anymore and he was Charlton mad for years. I didn't renew ST's this year for the first time in over 12 years as I really have seen this coming. Sad days.1
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With another loss predicted on Saturday, I think fans now really need to hear from the Trust in terms of whether they feel dialogue with KM has/will have any impact. If nothing else, a simple acknowledgement from those running the club that the current team (management and players) are simply not good enough/under resourced and that this will be addressed in January.0
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The one really exciting thing about being relegated to Div 1 is that we can resume our tradition of gifting Millwall 6 points. That and looking up the timetables to places such as Rochdale!! Gets the pulse racing doesn't it??1
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I was talking about that tonight.cafctom said:We are only staying up based on three other clubs being worse than us. I think we might get lucky in that sense
Rotherham and Bolton look good for the drop with us hoping to avoid the third spot.
There is a gap opening up and it seems any three from six.0 -
I am more worried that next season we could find ourselves in a league below Millwall (& Gillingham) whilst watching Palace have a Thursday night European adventure.legaladdick said:The one really exciting thing about being relegated to Div 1 is that we can resume our tradition of gifting Millwall 6 points. That and looking up the timetables to places such as Rochdale!! Gets the pulse racing doesn't it??
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Scum will prolly go up as we go downlegaladdick said:The one really exciting thing about being relegated to Div 1 is that we can resume our tradition of gifting Millwall 6 points. That and looking up the timetables to places such as Rochdale!! Gets the pulse racing doesn't it??
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It's still pretty tight, Wednesday after losing at The Valley, lost to MKD tonight which wasn't helpful, but Bristol losing 4-0 to Derby makes their GD now worse than ours. Fulham are only 5 points above us as wellElfsborgAddick said:
I was talking about that tonight.cafctom said:We are only staying up based on three other clubs being worse than us. I think we might get lucky in that sense
Rotherham and Bolton look good for the drop with us hoping to avoid the third spot.
There is a gap opening up and it seems any three from six.0 -
Only five points !!!!!!!!killerandflash said:
It's still pretty tight, Wednesday after losing at The Valley, lost to MKD tonight which wasn't helpful, but Bristol losing 4-0 to Derby makes their GD now worse than ours. Fulham are only 5 points above us as wellElfsborgAddick said:
I was talking about that tonight.cafctom said:We are only staying up based on three other clubs being worse than us. I think we might get lucky in that sense
Rotherham and Bolton look good for the drop with us hoping to avoid the third spot.
There is a gap opening up and it seems any three from six.
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