So, Bob leaves us. His legacy a league record of 6 wins 13 draws and 6 defeats. You can looks at this in two ways……
Bob leaves Charlton with an ‘even’ record. He won as many games as he lost in the League, which isn’t bad for “a patient” that is in recovery. Further, if we had scored one goal more in every game, we would be top of the league. Now, Roland, don’t you think that you should have bought Igor a friend, so that he wasn’t on his own up front there? That’s not Bob’s fault at all. Our home record isn’t quite ‘Fortress Valley’ but two defeats in 13 home games isn’t too shabby in a League that is, as we all know, tightly contested. Indeed, in the old days when it was 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw, our position would have been better than it is even now. Bob, you are unlucky and a victim of a ruthless Belgian.
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Bob leaves Charlton with an ‘even’ record. He won as many games as he lost in the League, but drew far too many – over half, in fact. Also, he suffered two cup defeats, so his real record is 6 wins and 8 defeats. He only averaged 1.148 points per game if you count the cup games like a league game. That’s terrible. Further, if we had scored one goal less in every game, we would be bottom of the league now. It’s lucky you had Igor, Bob, otherwise you would have been in more trouble than your two predecessors. Our home record is a disgrace – only four wins from 13 games with pathetic results against some of the strugglers in this division. Football is now all about winning games; draws are of limited value. Why oh why have we been so negative against some poor teams? Bob, you were not up to the job of being a manager at this level. Roland won’t make the same mistake again.
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We had nothing about us that made us capable of turning draws into wins and too frequently when we were in front we resorted to trying to hold on to that position. Latterly, that record became even worse with just five goals scored in BP's final nine games in charge and not a win in sight. That is truly shocking and whereas "not losing" had become a habit early season, the opposite in recent times had very much become the norm.
Whether that can/will change under a new RD puppet remains to be seen.
And if we'd scored one goal more, we'd be miles clear at the top.
My problem is with the inevitability of the next appointment. It won't be a decision made with imagination, or with the best man for the job in mind. It will be a decision influenced by who RD has down the back of his sofa ready to come in at no extra cost. He'll hope it works out and if it doesn't, he'll just go onto the next one.
So players perform badly and don't do what the manager tells them and we lose a game. The manager then gives them a talking to and the players get all offended and down tools. Not very professional is it?
I recall after one dire performance where although we won the game I kept all the coaching / support staff in the dug out, leaving the players to sort their kit and make their own arrangements to get home. Their efforts were simply not worthy of all the work, effort and support we were putting in. If they were not prepared to put in the work we were demanding on the pitch they could bloody well put it in off the pitch.
I can only imagine the comments in the club bar. The club chairman was fine with it. You are not being employed to be popular - you are employed to get a job done. It is not your job to keep everybody happy all of the time. You are not organising a crèche.