Bowyer's got to go (ed. p23 CAFCOfficial twitter confirm he's gone)

Play off final day I think I heard him singing I want Bowyer out tbf

Sevenoaks to Solihull. Enjoy. 

People are allowed to change their minds over whether a football manager is doing a good job or not, it's not a lifetime allegiance, where because Bowyer did a great job in 2018 and 2019, you're not allowed to criticise him in 2021.

It was quite a shock to see Bowyer resign rather than staying on (until TS made the decision for him in the next month or so).I find football cynical though when you hear he has a move lined-up anyway to Brum.I am sure he meant what he said in his final message to fans but it is tainted when the truth would be better---more money at Brum,I don't get on with X,Y or Z at the club,whatever the reasons. Footballers are brought up in a closed,secret society so expecting the full truth is probably naive and the truth will never be known,just inferred.
I would say we have had some great times under his management,Doncaster in the semi-final at home(I can't remember a more fervent,noisy crowd),Wembley of course and some great performances in the league.But this season has seen some of the most disjointed,dreary and unintelligible football ever seen from a Charlton team.Was it Gallen over-ruling Bowyer on transfer signings,disagreements with the new football supremo brought in to join-up the styles of play throughout the club from youngest to first team,burn-out and not able to summon the energy or thoughts for a competent game plan? I don't know how he can walk into a new job when he must sorely be in need of a few weeks away from football to get his head straighter.And Brum are no great shakes,not a wonderful step-up in any event. I find it odd---I know he has affiliations to Brum as he did with Charlton.A bit like Taylor going to Forest,Doughty to Stoke---why the hurry to leave but be little better off in footballing terms? By the way,why have so many players been in such a hurry to leave our club?Oh to be a fly on the wall in the dressing room or at the training grpound.
I wish him well and thank him for some truly memorable times.Thanks too for putting up with the treatment he eceived from RD and sticking to the job at Charlton. But,in reality,things haven't picked up since the resumption at the end of last season when we let so many opportunities slip so as to fall to this division and our level of enthusiasm has stayed there with no player expectation of promotion.

Their players will perform better after a few public slaggings.

Taxi_Lad said:

Just took a peek at the BHFC forum. Mostly in favour of getting LB on board. A few reservations by some but general consensus is he’ll get a tune out of their squad and provide some steel, something they’re apparently missing. A few also mentioned that we would not have been relegated last season had LT not “stabbed him in the back”

You’ve stumped me ‘LT?’ Leiven de Turk?

Football person in looks after themselves shocker , no way , I don’t believe it 

He goes with his head held high and deservedly so for what he achieved  
but if we were genuinely threatening promotion and he walked out on us for another club , we’d all be fuming imo 

Seems mad but skybet still have the market open on Brum next manager Lee is available at a whopping 1/33

You have to wonder if Lee was offered the job at Brum before he resigned his job with us,that will leave a bad taste in the mouth for the Bowyer out brigade 

CAFCsayer said:

J BLOCK said:

Callumcafc said:

Croydon said:

oohaahmortimer said:

Some wanted him to stay and be backed , partly due to his loyalty and definitely due to his previous achievements 
some wanted him to be sacked .

The FACT is , he resigned and walked away from our club , there’s your loyalty right there .
Unless someone knows otherwise 🤷‍♂️

Done it mid way through the season too. Apoplectic when Grant did it, but blame fellow fans when Bowyer does it. 

Weird spin on the situation. Just the other day, people were accusing Bow of hanging around for a pay off and if he really cared about the club he’d resign.

I suppose the Bowyer boo boys didn’t expect him to land on his feet with a job in a higher division... oops.

Honestly, no one cares.

Glad he has, means we get compo instead of having to pay him off in a couple of months time

It was in response to the ‘landing on his feet with a job in a higher division’

Seemingly people cannot understand that wanting someone out of a club and hoping they fail in whatever they do next, are totally different things. 

KiwiValley said:

Dazzler21 said:

KiwiValley said:

Make no mistake Bowyer was the most important person at CAFC in the last 10 years + . He was our Churchill (woke considerations aside) when scumbags and doom threatened to engulf us all. Go well Lee. 

You realise we had Powell who was marginally better than Bowyer (won the league, achieved championship survival and almost scraped play offs in that season)

One of the most important, but not the most important.

A reasonable argument when considering on field matters and douchebag's reign, But Bowyer stuck with us through Douchbag AND ESI1 and ESI2. Powell was essentially fired (much to his relief probably). Without Bowyer's figurehead leadership over the last 18 months...

“Figurehead leadership over the last 18 months”? let’s not go crazy, he’s been the team manager but I’m not sure he’s been an amazing leader:

- He’s constantly thrown players, including youngsters, under the bus;
- Hasn’t exactly been standing up for the club/us to the various entities that have owned/tried to own Charlton. In fact he’s signed contracts to work for most of them. Now clearly telling some home truths to your boss might not be good for your career so it’s completely fair why he might not want to do that, but let’s not pretend he showed any sort of “leadership” about the situation because you diminish the contribution of those that really did (including some who actually did risk their job);
- even just focusing on the football side of things, the last 18 months in general have been pretty abysmal. It’s not like Bowyer led us to good things despite the madness going on around him.


Decent manager? Yeah, for a while. Great leader? No, not a chance.

se9addick said:

KiwiValley said:

Dazzler21 said:

KiwiValley said:

Make no mistake Bowyer was the most important person at CAFC in the last 10 years + . He was our Churchill (woke considerations aside) when scumbags and doom threatened to engulf us all. Go well Lee. 

You realise we had Powell who was marginally better than Bowyer (won the league, achieved championship survival and almost scraped play offs in that season)

One of the most important, but not the most important.

A reasonable argument when considering on field matters and douchebag's reign, But Bowyer stuck with us through Douchbag AND ESI1 and ESI2. Powell was essentially fired (much to his relief probably). Without Bowyer's figurehead leadership over the last 18 months...

“Figurehead leadership over the last 18 months”? let’s not go crazy, he’s been the team manager but I’m not sure he’s been an amazing leader:

- He’s constantly thrown players, including youngsters, under the bus;
- Hasn’t exactly been standing up for the club/us to the various entities that have owned/tried to own Charlton. In fact he’s signed contracts to work for most of them. Now clearly telling some home truths to your boss might not be good for your career so it’s completely fair why he might not want to do that, but let’s not pretend he showed any sort of “leadership” about the situation because you diminish the contribution of those that really did (including some who actually did risk their job);
- even just focusing on the football side of things, the last 18 months in general have been pretty abysmal. It’s not like Bowyer led us to good things despite the madness going on around him.


Decent manager? Yeah, for a while. Great leader? No, not a chance.

Agreed. Bowyers decline started when he subbed Williams off not long after putting him on. From then on in he made a complete mess of it all.

Remember when Bowyer froze Dillon Phillips out because Phillips wanted to fulfil his contract and then move onto another opportunity? Nine months later, Bowyer resigns mid-way through his own contract so he can move onto another opportunity.

siblers said:

Ormiston_Addick said:

Going to Birmingham would be a really weird move though, their ownership is all over the place and they are going through managers like hot dinners.

Bowyer has two Play Off campaigns and a VERY narrow relegation from the Championship with a League One squad on his resume and would be able to get a far better Championship club than them if he bides his time.

He must be getting offered very good terms and money to take them over. Can't see any other real reason for taking them over

There may be a part of him that likes managing in adversity.  I say this seriously.  Under RD, he was largely left to his own devices, total control.  Of course, it may not be the same at Brum, but it might be that he sees an opportunity free of interference.  Not that TS is going to interfere, but I sense the expectation of success under TS may have been a factor.  Who knows?