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Are Charlton a sleeping giant beginning to wake?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5y05gl0n10o

Happy to see articles such as these in the mainstream media, at long last.
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  • Dave2l said:
    Charlton are a small - medium ish sized club. I hope it stays that way. 

    Just want to enjoy the Championship.  The premier league is a money pit for foreign investors and its not fun anymore. 

    If we somehow get promoted again, we'd have absolutely no chance of staying in that division.

    I'd only be happy for us from a financial perspective. It would be great in that regard and we can carry on building the club up after we get relegated due to only getting 25 points from 38 games.
    I’d 100% take being walloped for a season in the prem though. 
    It's so good for the bank balance too
  • I don’t think any right minded journalist could refer to us as ‘giants’ suspect that bit is tongue in cheek but yes, we have woken up from a long slumber, one in which former owners prior to this current group seemed determined to keep us consistently sedated.

    Just as we clicked under Curbs/Varney and the then very committed and strategic CAFC Board of yesteryear, our current owners, boardroom and management appear aligned and focused on similar ambitions to be built upon in time. 

    Let the good times roll…our only desire
  • I think “sleeping giant” is pushing it a bit!
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  • https://footballrates.com/alltimetable

    Interesting evidence to make your decision on.
    Anyway going into this season saying thank you to the likes of Mansfield, Shrewsbury, Burton and Port Vale for the laughs and the pints but I really don't want to go to any of them again for a long while if ever.

  • Not really a giant are we, but I'm hopeful of a crack at the top league before too long. 
  • se9addick said:
    I think “sleeping giant” is pushing it a bit!
    It's what my missus calls me in the morning, unfortunately not because of a chiseled physique... 
  • Over the last 20 years, we've spent the majority of that time in league one. 

    I know a lot of it is due to bad ownership, but it's about time the club just settles in a decent enjoyable league 
  • We've not been asleep more dormant/ borderline extinct.
  • gringo said:
    We've not been asleep more dormant/ borderline extinct.
    Up until last season, Michael Crichton could've written about us being extracted from a piece of amber that's been dug up.
  • https://footballrates.com/alltimetable

    Interesting evidence to make your decision on.
    Anyway going into this season saying thank you to the likes of Mansfield, Shrewsbury, Burton and Port Vale for the laughs and the pints but I really don't want to go to any of them again for a long while if ever.

    Not sure about this table, as it doesn't seem to take account of the level at which the points were earnt, unless I'm missing something. I prefer their all-time average league position table, which has at as 32, so midtable second tier, which feels about right to me (crucially puts us a few places above Palace, too).

  • edited August 8
    Dave2l said:
    Charlton are a small - medium ish sized club. I hope it stays that way. 

    Just want to enjoy the Championship.  The premier league is a money pit for foreign investors and its not fun anymore. 

    If we somehow get promoted again, we'd have absolutely no chance of staying in that division.

    I'd only be happy for us from a financial perspective. It would be great in that regard and we can carry on building the club up after we get relegated due to only getting 25 points from 38 games.
    I’m feeling a Donald Sutherland “negative waves” comment is due. We are at least as big as a few clubs in the premiership, no reason for us not to aim to get there.
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  • Quite unnerving seeing all these positive things being said about us
  • The measure of whether we're becoming aroused from our slumbers will be points harvested.
  • kafka said:
    Dave2l said:
    Charlton are a small - medium ish sized club. I hope it stays that way. 

    Just want to enjoy the Championship.  The premier league is a money pit for foreign investors and its not fun anymore. 

    If we somehow get promoted again, we'd have absolutely no chance of staying in that division.

    I'd only be happy for us from a financial perspective. It would be great in that regard and we can carry on building the club up after we get relegated due to only getting 25 points from 38 games.
    Bigger than Bournemouth and Brentford though and as big as Fulham, Burnley, Brighton and Palace. We should be supporting this ambition and seeing how far NJ can take us.
    I’d argue we are bigger than Fulham, Burnley, Brighton and the Stripeys.
  • kafka said:
    Dave2l said:
    Charlton are a small - medium ish sized club. I hope it stays that way. 

    Just want to enjoy the Championship.  The premier league is a money pit for foreign investors and its not fun anymore. 

    If we somehow get promoted again, we'd have absolutely no chance of staying in that division.

    I'd only be happy for us from a financial perspective. It would be great in that regard and we can carry on building the club up after we get relegated due to only getting 25 points from 38 games.
    Bigger than Bournemouth and Brentford though and as big as Fulham, Burnley, Brighton and Palace. We should be supporting this ambition and seeing how far NJ can take us.
    Yes bigger than Bournemouth, Brentford, Burnley and Fulham.
    Same size as Brighton and Palace and not far behind Forest and Wolves.
    So we can easily compete with 8 of the 20.
  • Attaining premiership status is the only way we ever get the Valley and training ground back.
  • an aside .. good to see Harry Hill was at Wembley, avin a peep over Nathan's arm
  • Attaining premiership status is the only way we ever get the Valley and training ground back.
    Ultimately though, who is "we"?
  • I'm a bit paranoid, so double-checked the headline to make sure that the BBC had types "giant" rather than "gnat"...
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