Jose Riga

ricky_otto said:

Even if we get rid of him AGAIN we would only appoint another set of clueless mugs, and end up with Riga AGAIN anyway. Let's keep him and be consistently shit under him for a sustained period, rather than being consistently shit under a number of different puppets.

I noticed that Fraeye replaced Bart De Roever at Lommel United - De Roever of course being Riga's assistant at Blackpool - how long before Bart shows up at The Valley I wonder.

Godstone said:

Hartleypete said:

A complete and utter wanker, about as useful as a fart in a space suit.

No wonder Duchatelet doesn't take us seriously when fans make comments like that. If Riga had managed us from the start of the season we would not be going down. Maybe even if Guy had not been sacked he might have got enough points too.

We've won three games in 12 under Riga. We've lost half our games. We've failed to perform in must-win games against the likes of MK Dons and Bristol City. Riga is doing a poor quality job at the moment and we'd be doing far better with an experienced Championship manager. Like Rotherham under Warnock. If your aspirations are as high as 'stop being mean to Riga' then you deserve the Charlton you're getting

We need Riga to outsmart the opposition every time. No manager can do that. He did it against Boro and Brentford but not against ME and Sheffield Wed...that's normal.

Clear to me Riga is doing what Duchatelet tells him. Academy sales strategy before survival.

Godstone said:

We need Riga to outsmart the opposition every time. No manager can do that. He did it against Boro and Brentford but not against ME and Sheffield Wed...that's normal.

No. What?? Listen to yourself, this is pathetic. We should be aiming to win every single match, and when we fail in this we analyse the issues, we don't shrug and say can't win 'em all. We don't need Riga to 'outsmart' the opposition, we need Riga to pick a competitive team and instil a never-say-die attitude into the team. We need him to inspire the players to block out the negativity of the ownership and fight for the shirt, the fans and their professional pride. We need to be solid at the back, cut out mistakes and work until the final minute and hope to snatch points even where we're outplayed. Instead we concede from just about every corner, collapse horrifically when a goal goes in leading to comedy scorelines and still don't have a settled eleven. Against MK Dons in a must-win match we set ourselves up with one up front against a team happy to take a draw, and against Boro and Sheffield Weds we started with two small, physically unimposing strikers - one of them actually a winger. Against Boro we were fortunate they played into our hands by throwing men forward but it could have gone very differently, as we saw today.

It's not 'normal' for a team to shit itself every other game. That's a team that isn't set up the right way. Which is miserable because we really do have the players to be well out of this mess. Give a decent manager our squad and Rotherham's and they'd take ours every single time - but it's Rotherham who are grinding out wins and clawing their way up the table.

ricky_otto said:

Oakster said:

ricky_otto said:

Even if we get rid of him AGAIN we would only appoint another set of clueless mugs, and end up with Riga AGAIN anyway. Let's keep him and be consistently shit under him for a sustained period, rather than being consistently shit under a number of different puppets.

I noticed that Fraeye replaced Bart De Roever at Lommel United - De Roever of course being Riga's assistant at Blackpool - how long before Bart shows up at The Valley I wonder.

I'd love to have him.

Change some word in the Pogues song from "Irish Rover to "Bart De Roever"

Me too.

Listened to 1 minute of his post match interview turned it off bored me to tears

ricky_otto said:

Godstone said:

We need Riga to outsmart the opposition every time. No manager can do that. He did it against Boro and Brentford but not against ME and Sheffield Wed...that's normal.

He can't even get us to defend a corner - Don't ask him to outsmart opposition. The blokes out of his depth. Just like the rest Fraeye, Luzon and Peters were.

However that said, we have an owner who doesn't know the first thing about running a football club picking our managers. What else can we expect.

Not being funny, but put he picked that well known goal threat that scares defenders witless today -Aka Reza..... Riga is fucking clueless. I wouldn't trust him to run a bath let alone out first team.

Runaround Reza I call him

Beckboy said:

ricky_otto said:

Godstone said:

We need Riga to outsmart the opposition every time. No manager can do that. He did it against Boro and Brentford but not against ME and Sheffield Wed...that's normal.

He can't even get us to defend a corner - Don't ask him to outsmart opposition. The blokes out of his depth. Just like the rest Fraeye, Luzon and Peters were.

However that said, we have an owner who doesn't know the first thing about running a football club picking our managers. What else can we expect.

Not being funny, but put he picked that well known goal threat that scares defenders witless today -Aka Reza..... Riga is fucking clueless. I wouldn't trust him to run a bath let alone out first team.

Runaround Reza I call him

Woeful player. I'd rather have Phil Chapple up front.

ShortyWilson999 said:

It's never the same when players or managers return. Riga was never the answer as goes poyet, Johnson etc!

You wait until we've got Llera and Doherty at centre back next season...improvement on Sarr though it has to be said. (:

RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

Isawsummersplay said:

Riga will be kept on next season because he is cheap.

And because he is another network yes man that will not openly criticise the utter clusterfuck that is our regime, recruitment policy, scouting system and basically everything they have got themselves involved with.

He'll scuttle off with his tail between his legs after doffing his cap to his master and eventually roll up for a third or fourth stint at one of the other basket cases in the network when he'll spin some good PR and being a genuinely very nice and likeable bloke will be given a chance to oversee the prolonged agony of a club's demise before moving on again.

Sums Riga up to a tee.

RD just called Riga, asked him to send over the report as he was too busy to watch his private stream - out shopping for duct tape that matches his clogs apparently...

Riga duly obliged it seems

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2609598/Sheff-Wed-2-3-Charlton-match-report-Addicks-leap-bottom-three-stunning-Sordell-hat-trick.html

ricky_otto said:

Oakster said:

RD just called Riga, asked him to send over the report as he was too busy to watch his private stream - out shopping for duct tape that matches his clogs apparently...

Riga duly obliged it seems

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2609598/Sheff-Wed-2-3-Charlton-match-report-Addicks-leap-bottom-three-stunning-Sordell-hat-trick.html

He'll be fuming to see that Riga left Thuram on the bench, particularly as he put Obika on ahead of him.

I heard when Riga told Douchebag that we're playing Sheffield Wednesday, Roland told him to have the weekend off & was also pleased as the hotel rates in Sheffield are probably cheaper midweek...

Godstone said:

Godstone said:

We need Riga to outsmart the opposition every time. No manager can do that. He did it against Boro and Brentford but not against ME and Sheffield Wed...that's normal.

MK not ME!

So, he outsmarted you then....

I'd keep that quiet if I were you.