Let's support this guy and support the team. We are currently bottom of the Championship largely because of the way we have played. Powell was a fantastic player for the club, is a wonderful human being but the results were bad and it seems that the team and club were slipping into a downward spiral.
RD behaved similarly at Liege, firing a popular manager and installing a relatively unknown replacement and they are now romping the Belgian league.
I feel sorry for Powell but the league table doesn't lie and we now have to stay strong and support the team if we are to have any hope of survival and a new approach needs to be made. The last thing we need is booing at the next home game or hanckering after a manager who left with us propping up the table.
Might we get some interesting players from AC Milan?
You do realise the Riga was (one of) the managers/coaches that Duchatelet sacked when he took over Standard Liege?
From the 'Roland Duchatelet - fact or fiction?' thread
"His takeover of Standard Liege was a surprise and his arrival was followed by a lot of upheaval, with players sold. The previous manager had already resigned before the takeover. The first manager appointed by Duchatelet, Jose Riga, lasted one season, and the next one, Dutchman Ron Jans, just six months. Former player Romanian Mircea Rednic followed, and took Standard into the Europa League, but was then sacked at the end of the season, and claims Duchatelet wanted a puppet not a coach".
Add that to the evidence (from Richard Cawley, Andy Ansah and others) that Powell was not sacked because of our league position, or because of the loss on Sunday – but because he would not agree to Duchatelet dictating what players he should play.
So I don't think that Duchatelet has appointed Riga because he believes he can or will prevent us being relegated – but because Riga will do what he’s told with the players he’s provided with.
Hope people don't take the Powell sacking out on him rather than the owner as I fear might happen. Pretty underwhelming appointment though, a manager with a history of working well with youth I understand, but not when we are at the bottom of the table with 2 months to improve results...
I hope that not because I want to "prove" that Chris was useless or that sacking Chris was the right decision.
I hope that Riga is a success because that means MY club is a success. And it is MY club and YOUR club not Chris Powell's or Jose Riga's or Roland Duchatelet's club.
I want the best for Charlton and that means hoping that Jose can do the business for us.
On paper his managerial record is less than impressive but he has already been sacked on by Roland so at least he has that in common with Chris Powell.
The comparison with the "unknown" Wenger is laughable. Wenger had won the French league and cup and lost a Cup Winners Cup final and a Champions league semi-final as a manager at Monaco prior to joining Arsenal.
My stated view has been for many weeks that in the long term (3 or 4 seasons) Roland will be good for the club but that in the meantime we will have a very rough ride. Everything that has happened today only confirms that view in my mind.
It will take a while before "Jose Riga's Red and White Army" sounds right though.
@HLNinEngeland: On José Riga: nice, well-mannered guy with a philosophy. Once gave some training sessions at Real Madrid - he &Mourinho have common friends.
Interesting that he's common friends with Mourinho... Steve Clarke, Andre Villa-Boas, Brendan Rodgers and Aitor Karenika are included in that group who have Managed in England and none of those guys have done that badly...
Not exactly unplanned then?! Good luck, Jose, whoever you are.
Thats the spirit weegie COYR
I'll wish him luck, because he'll need it, but I'm not going to be there for the rest of this season. I've put more than enough time, money and effort into this club over the years. Not sure what exactly I'd be supporting now so taking a break...
Never heard of him, but my starting position is that he is an utterly useless 'see you next tuesday', and it will remain so unless he can persuade me inch by inch moment by moment otherwise. I will certainly not support him because I am loyal to Charlton, he will have to prove himself every moment of every day otherwise I will be heaping the vitriol on him at every match I attend and at every opportunity. OK Roland, first challenge starting tomorrow is to win every remaining match this season, and even then you're still the carpetbagger who has foreclosed the farm, and is standing there grinning and chewing your cigar whilst our sad belongings are loaded up on a cart. Nice to meet you Jose Riga, just want to start off by saying I don't know you, but I hate you.
Seth - with all due respect mate, and I understand things are still raw; 1) we're currently heading for relegation 2) SCP must take some of the blame for this - he is tactically naive 3) not doing anything and no change happens we get relegated and will 100% lose the likes of Poyet, Cousins etc 4) I support Charlton Athletic FC not Chris Powell FC, as much as I loved him. 5) RD took over a clubs whose team that had already been undermined with a lack of investment, new contracts up in the air and who was heading for administration. 6) key players (with whom were risking relegation with) had been offered new contracts but had turned them down. They were then sold.
You state you support Charlton but will give no backing to the new manager. It beggars belief
I accept your point of view.
If supporting a club with passion in sometimes needed, then don't be surprised that hurting with a passion is also part of things. Not logical I know, but if you think it beggars belief you occupy a different part of the Charlton supporting spectrum to me. This is a very bad day for me, and as Shakespeare might say, if you ask me to take it like a man, I will only say I also reserve the right to feel it like a man.
Does he know about the other Championship teams? If not even more cluelessness. Feel sick
WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT OTHER CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS?! Is the main credential for a Charlton manager to have read the 'The History Of Burnley F.C., by A. Localhistorian'? How much did Powell really know about the however many other League One teams when he came in? Had he that much experience of playing in a cloggers' league? No. I don't give a toss whether the new guy has encyclopaedic knowledge of all 92 clubs as long as he does a good job at one club - Charlton Athletic. Pochettino didn't even SPEAK English when he came to Southampton and that didn't turn out too shabby.
Henry - you wrote: "I hope that Riga is a success because that means MY club is a success. And it is MY club and YOUR club not Chris Powell's or Jose Riga's or Roland Duchatelet's club."
Does it really feel like YOUR club at the moment? I'm not sure that it feels like MY club. It feels a bit like an alien organization with a different set of intentions and ideals and objectives and it has felt like that ever since Duchatelet stepped in and before Powell was sacked. I think that's why Powell has been digging his heels in and why he has been sacked. It certainly doesn't feel like the club that I started supporting or the kind of club that Powell felt so passionately about and I don't know if I am going to be able to support it with the same kind of passion as I did before.
I know that you did not even apply for the job and that some say your only qualification for it is that you will do as your told by the owner when he wants to pick the team or sell a few players after a dull day in the Antwerp electronics market.
You probably haven't heard of our last manager who was something of a legend but he had his best players sold and replaced by rejects he had never heard of and was then sacked for trying to pick his own team. Of course we have all moved on now and agree with Mr Roland that it was all the manager's fault.
With all your experience of bending down when told to I am sure you will be well equipped to manage us through a relegation dog fight in the English Championship on a pitch that looks like a farmers field on day two of the Battle of the Somme. Any tips for the players on how best to perform at the New Den?
At least when we are relegated you can still secure your bonus by transferring Solly, Wiggins, Cousins and Poyet to Belgium and we will of course still be cheering you on.
The way things were going, it was not fair on CP, on the players or on us the supporters, something had to give. You cannot function with so much friction at the top of the club, everyone needs to be pulling in the same direction. The performance against Sheff now makes far more sense. There was obviously something afoot before the game. Protesting will make no difference. We still have a good chance of staying up, but everyone needs to get behind the team and the new manager.
Like Henry, I want Riga to be a success because it means that Charlton will be successful
One thing is for sure, I never again want to or will get emotionally attached to a manager in the way that I did with Chris Powell. I want to be dispassionate about their fortunes and futures, I want to be howling for blood if they get it badly wrong, I don't want to feel their pain when us supporters have enough of our own. Head over heart from now on.
he will go from zero to hero If he pulls off a win at Millwall.
Absolutely... and quite frankly, deservedly - if that happens. I didn't want Powell out, but nor did I want to witness the pathetic capitulations last Sunday and in the home game vs Millwall.
Comments
---------Thauram
Nego - Morro - Wood - Wiggy
------Poyet - Cousins
Reza------Astrit------Harriot
----------Pete
And think we could do a lot worse.
From the 'Roland Duchatelet - fact or fiction?' thread
"His takeover of Standard Liege was a surprise and his arrival was followed by a lot of upheaval, with players sold. The previous manager had already resigned before the takeover. The first manager appointed by Duchatelet, Jose Riga, lasted one season, and the next one, Dutchman Ron Jans, just six months. Former player Romanian Mircea Rednic followed, and took Standard into the Europa League, but was then sacked at the end of the season, and claims Duchatelet wanted a puppet not a coach".
http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/58653/new-article-roland-duchatelet-fact-or-fiction/p1
Add that to the evidence (from Richard Cawley, Andy Ansah and others) that Powell was not sacked because of our league position, or because of the loss on Sunday – but because he would not agree to Duchatelet dictating what players he should play.
So I don't think that Duchatelet has appointed Riga because he believes he can or will prevent us being relegated – but because Riga will do what he’s told with the players he’s provided with.
One crafty reporter managed to catch Jose's reaction when he met Ben Hamer and saw his beard for the first time...
Horses for courses.
If supporting a club with passion in sometimes needed, then don't be surprised that hurting with a passion is also part of things.
Not logical I know, but if you think it beggars belief you occupy a different part of the Charlton supporting spectrum to me.
This is a very bad day for me, and as Shakespeare might say, if you ask me to take it like a man, I will only say I also reserve the right to feel it like a man.
Does it really feel like YOUR club at the moment? I'm not sure that it feels like MY club. It feels a bit like an alien organization with a different set of intentions and ideals and objectives and it has felt like that ever since Duchatelet stepped in and before Powell was sacked. I think that's why Powell has been digging his heels in and why he has been sacked. It certainly doesn't feel like the club that I started supporting or the kind of club that Powell felt so passionately about and I don't know if I am going to be able to support it with the same kind of passion as I did before.
We go down and it's expected and not his fault
or
he becomes a Charlton god and keeps us up
Come on Jose you can do it perleeeeeeeeeeeeease
welcome to Billy Smarts
Welcome Mr Jose What's your name.
I know that you did not even apply for the job and that some say your only qualification for it is that you will do as your told by the owner when he wants to pick the team or sell a few players after a dull day in the Antwerp electronics market.
You probably haven't heard of our last manager who was something of a legend but he had his best players sold and replaced by rejects he had never heard of and was then sacked for trying to pick his own team. Of course we have all moved on now and agree with Mr Roland that it was all the manager's fault.
With all your experience of bending down when told to I am sure you will be well equipped to manage us through a relegation dog fight in the English Championship on a pitch that looks like a farmers field on day two of the Battle of the Somme. Any tips for the players on how best to perform at the New Den?
At least when we are relegated you can still secure your bonus by transferring Solly, Wiggins, Cousins and Poyet to Belgium and we will of course still be cheering you on.
Loyally.
I don't think our league position helped Powell either. How much lower can you go from 24th in the Championship apart from league one?
One thing is for sure, I never again want to or will get emotionally attached to a manager in the way that I did with Chris Powell. I want to be dispassionate about their fortunes and futures, I want to be howling for blood if they get it badly wrong, I don't want to feel their pain when us supporters have enough of our own. Head over heart from now on.
All about how RD sees the club working in the transfer market and making use of players brought in from "the network".