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Relegation Roger

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
in General Charlton
Still for me has to be the worst signing of the season - having watched him under-perform for us before I still can't believe we went on to resign him.
Supposedly a good player in his day but have seen little evidence to support it.

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,437
    Dunno... Rhys Williams and Conor McAleny have to give him a good run for his money? i.e.

    - Rhys Williams, signed on loan to get fit and match time... the fact that we played Hull would have been a great help for Middlesbrough had we won, instead he set up their first goal for them

    - Conor McAleny, that miss against Fulham, whilst you've got to be awful if at a young age your already being called spongefoot in memory of Simon Church!!
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Dunno... Rhys Williams and Conor McAleny have to give him a good run for his money? i.e.

    - Rhys Williams, signed on loan to get fit and match time... the fact that we played Hull would have been a great help for Middlesbrough had we won, instead he set up their first goal for them

    - Conor McAleny, that miss against Fulham, whilst you've got to be awful if at a young age your already being called spongefoot in memory of Simon Church!!

    The reason I put Roger top is that we'd seen how poor he was in his previous spell - to resign him was utter madness.

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,437
    I thought he was quite good in his first spell... The disappointing factor was his broken ribs that he played through.

    I guess he did have Tal Ben-Haim alongside him though, had we kept him we'd have a lot less issues this season
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    He was ok for us last season. He's been dossing around in the Indian league and isnt up to speed. Problem is we need him to be.

    18 month contract is mental. Probably should have offered him that 12 months ago.

    Unfortunately our CEO has a complete lack of negotiating nous.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,175
    Roger was decent at the start of his time with us last year but he did start creaking towards the end of his spell and I don't think too many people were upset to see him go. Bringing him back is nuts.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Conor McAleny will clearly be a good championship, maybe even prem player in the future. Definitely has something about him just so inconsistent it's unreal, especially in a struggling side.
  • AllLeftFoot
    AllLeftFoot Posts: 1,500
    Another way of looking at the 18 month contract is that it is the equivalent of having given him a two-year deal last summer - which presumably was never an option.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    AllLeftFoot said:

    Another way of looking at the 18 month contract is that it is the equivalent of having given him a two-year deal last summer - which presumably was never an option.

    Katrien will be giving herself a bonus on such a good deal ... saving six month's salary and bringing back a high-class football who is a favourite with the fans. Everyone's a winner.
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,762
    I think he's alright, but I can imagine he's cheap and certainly shouldn't be a starting CB. 18 months is madness as well.

    Less of these signings and you've got to think that we wouldn't have to loan Watt out.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,785
    Joe Gomez made him look good.

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,589
    he'll be ok in League 1
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Callumcafc said:

    Joe Gomez made him look good.

    anyone with the pace, touch and calmness of jogo would make anyone look good in defence with them.
  • johnboy59
    johnboy59 Posts: 70
    Lovely bloke he was on the next table to me at last years POTY. If he could turn and run as quick as he could get the beers in and demolish em would be first name on the team sheet
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957
    kentaddick said:

    Callumcafc said:

    Joe Gomez made him look good.

    anyone with the pace, touch and calmness of jogo would make anyone look good in defence with them.

    JoGo and SloJo ........ this time last season's dream pairing at CB


  • Jensenwasclass
    Jensenwasclass Posts: 835
    Seem to remember he played a 'blinder' against Bournemouth
    last season!!!!!
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    He was pretty good in the spell last season, we turned the corner from his debut.
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    Think in the present. His pace is funereal
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,175
    BR7_addick said:

    He was pretty good in the spell last season, we turned the corner from his debut.

    Problem is it takes him about ten minutes longer to turn the corner now
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,280
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Dunno... Rhys Williams and Conor McAleny have to give him a good run for his money? i.e.

    - Rhys Williams, signed on loan to get fit and match time... the fact that we played Hull would have been a great help for Middlesbrough had we won, instead he set up their first goal for them

    - Conor McAleny, that miss against Fulham, whilst you've got to be awful if at a young age your already being called spongefoot in memory of Simon Church!!

    Unfair on Conor. One of the highlights of this season was watching a professional footballer catch a ball mid play!
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,003
    On 2 January 2016, Williams was loaned to Charlton Athletic, initially for 28 days. Available for Rotherham game, whoopee

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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,814
    He may be available but I'd be surprised if he played unless we have several midfield/defence injuries during the game
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    Roger Johnson has been the worst signing of any team at any time in the football league

    Cheers
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,814
    Still at least he is on an 18 month contract. That's got to be positive. Oh.
  • Kenny Achampong
    Kenny Achampong Posts: 540
    In all fairness to RJ, if any of you have seen the Indian Premier League, then it is hardly surprising that he is going to take time to get up to Championship pace (which of course we don't have).

    I half watched some of the games, and not only was it played at walking pace, but most of the foreign players were literally a decade past their best - ie Lucio, Pires and Roberto Carlos.

    Allied to that, the standard of most of the local players was woeful, and at a guess I would say not much better than say a good senior football Saturday side (eg VCD, Crayford or Phoenix etc).
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,871
    It also shows how lazy we are at recruiting players.

    "Just get someone in we already know, it's January FFS I'm tired and cold. Preferably a player where we rejected the idea of them continuing with us at the time"
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,684
    Charlton’s little black book of contacts must be a very thin volume indeed. Starting with CP, Roland has systematically dismantled football knowledge from the management side of the club.
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,258
    The one point in his favour is that we were shit before he arrived. That's my defence of the man. After that, I go back into default mode and demand to know who looked at his current form and thought 'we were right to let him go last summer...it gave him a kick up the backside to get better and faster and he is now just what we need for the next year and a half'. Slate the player by all means, but the mugs are the ones who signed him, presumably paid his club acompensation and offered him 18 months contract. If KM choosess to sign that sort of player, she should get the blame.

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