Another basket case of a football club which I will put on a few quid on to get relegated next season.
As of this saturday evening they will have no chairman, no managing director, no chief executive, no manager, debts close to £100m and no more parachute payments.
The managing director quit in February, hours after attending a fans forum meeting (Take note Meire) and communications manager also went in March.
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Next season's Bolton.
Lambert has had enough as no one can answer his questions. Players out of contract etc
Clubs that would presumably be under extreme pressure due to no parachute payments , based on this list, would be Blackburn and Ipswich.
http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/national/146216-championship-club-club
On the other hand, if Tony Watt could be as consistently good as we believe he could be, and if no-one wants him, he could be quite something at division one level.
One thing I think UEFA had a good point about with their FFP was that until deficit spending and debt (though not long term debt in their implementation, which made everything silly) is under control, we are unlikely to attract the type of owners we want. What billionaire out there wants to throw tens of millions of pounds , altruistically, at Blackburn Rovers or Bolton Wanderers? The way things are currently run, football clubs are always going to be most likely to attract investors who either don't know what they're getting in to, or ones with an ulterior motive.
To be competitive in the Championship, and gain the chance of reaching the pot of gold AND international prestige in the premier league, you have to run up losses far greater than a normal local businessman would afford, thus ruling out most traditional local owners with an affinity with the club.
Instead you get super rich foreigners, many of which have to connection to the club at all, and little idea of how to actually run a football club
There was an article on Football Focus yesterday about Bristol Rovers, who are now owned by a Jordanian billionaire
Only way Charlton or Blackburn etc. will get regular big attendances again will be if were back in the Premier League and those fans wont be there to see our club etc. they'll be there to see the big names!!
With TV money effectively likely to make the PL a closed shop within 5 years it would not surprise me in the slightest if relegation was stopped. Seems little point if the same relegated teams go straight back up each and every year and this is happening. People still talk of the Championship as a division where everyone beats everyone and how difficult it is to get out of. This season saw 2 relegated teams bounce straight back and the third team to go up was the one that spent the most which somewhat disproves the theory.
At the moment they're losing fathers with their two kids (a typical example) and that may only be three people now but when those kids grow up and have kids themselves it'll be potentially three generations of Addicks (which leaves Charlton with seven fans).
Thats only one family... Just imagine how many others there are at the Valley!!
2/3 x charlton shirts, when i was a kid id have the home for birthday and usually the away for xmas.
refreshments at the game, pint for dad, a soft drink for both kids.
2 programmes one for each of the kids.
but then what do we know were just customers.
Approximately 12 teams start the season with the aim of avoiding relegation and the most successful of these usually end up about 8th.
Southampton?
Man City
Charlton
It gives the club the opportunity, in reality it forces it, to make the kind of restructuring changes that are necessary to 'move on'.
In reality though there is a much bigger risk of the club falling further than coming back stronger than ever. I don't mind Blackburn, but I also don't care if they don't come back. Evolution insures that the divisions change over time and clubs like Stoke, who spent four seasons in the third division at the start of the century, never finishing above 5th, are now established in the Premier League. For every Stoke there needs to be a Blackburn that falls out of the top flight and stays away for in excess of a decade - like we've done.
Well...... How much did you win? @shirty5
Charlton? Stronger than what or whom? The only London teams worse than us are Orient with owners worse than ours and AFC who have achieved miracles since being reformed.
The others mentioned like Forest, Leeds and the Massives are all Championship Clubs who hover about between the relegation spots and the play offs, year after year.
For us, it was the new owners (and Powell) who made us stronger. The Pardew/Parky relegation season could easily have been avoided when you consider how long Blackburn struggled on in the Championship before relegation
Norwich have managed to jump around the divisions in quite a "steady" way really, so financial meltdowns or administration, no mass exodus of players, they've never really needed to rip the team up and start again. Ruddy for example had 2 promotions to the PL and 2 relegations in 7 years.