definitely...coming away from the bridge yesterday afternoon i felt we were unlucky not to have grabbed a point and the football we played was a credit to the players...lets not forget, chelsea have spent a lot of money building their side (that shevchencko is something else) and yet their two goals were a] partially lucky to sneak in between the goalpost and a sleepy ambrose; and b] scored against us when we'd just gone down to 10 men and hadn't reorganised the defence for the ensuing corner...talking to a chelsea fan this afternoon his first reaction was to say i must have seen a different game, then went on to say how great they were at first but how they couldn't keep it up for some reason...i told him, they couldn't cope with the width romm gave us...and sitting among chelsea fans in the corp area yesterday (fck pying £49 for a ticket when the city was awash with them last week) i overhead one chelsea fan in front moaning how they'd conceded the midfield to charlton...lots of positives from our play that just needed a little bit of luck...plenty to be hopeful about as i see it...well done the players and dowie, this squad looks like its going to come good big time...and as for romm, fcking brilliant at times, ghosted past bridge too may times so they took him off, then ghosted past cole, even kicking the ball one side of him and running around the other side to leave him in his wake...definitely should start next week...and young at left back just showed what a great player he is...i thought the lot of them were a credit to the club yesterday...
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Find it very unusual that we spent part of next years budget already as we don't take risks like that very often
I think it's a combination of trying to make sure we are still part of the Prem when the new bigger TV deal kicks in next season and a excellent chairman and board backing their new manager
You could've got me a handful then!
I'm rather hoping it's an "if" rather than a "when".
But i understand what you are saying- If, and i don't hink we will, the R word happens It would be a bigger psycological blow this time- as we expected it last time!
Just noted the title of this thread- We could only be Charlton fans turning " a great team in the making" to discussing relegation in 5 posts- eh! ;-)
To date the fixtures list hasn't been kind to us, but looking on the bright side we've got Man U and Chelsea away out the way already, and no-one surely expected to get anything from those matches, plus we've taken three points off of Bolton, which we've failed to do for three or four seasons. From the reports and the R5 commentary on Saturday Dowie's new model Addicks are coming together, and perhaps those matches came at the right time for the squad while they gel. Looking at the table I see we're level on points with Spurs, I wonder how their fans are feeling? I thought this is supposed to be their break through year into the top four, but so far it's all going pear shaped for Jol...
If however we do go down, financially we should be ok, that should give us breathing space to jump back.
Currently the injury situation worries me a little, and there was me wondering a week or two backif we had too many centre-backs...