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When do you start taking notice of the League Table?
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Round about mid-August.2
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It's such a long season that even 10 games can be misleading. I remember the Parky season when us and Leeds started brilliantly and looked like great shouts for automatic promotion. Both of us stuttered, Leeds scraped across the line, we fell down to 4th1
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Not specifically certain amount of games in but normally around the beginning of October, then at Christmas, then in February and of course nearer the end.
I suppose that coincides with splitting it to 12, 23/24, 33-36 and near the 46.
After 12 you can see things starting to take shape. Christmas would never be far too different to how it'll end but certain teams can end up changing dramatically. February is leaving things very late to change positions unless it's incredibly tight or a team goes on a super run like Reading did a few years back.
As Powell did in the League One winning season, he split the fixtures into mini leagues and looked at things that way. We all know how that worked out.
Not panicking or exactly looking until we have played Coventry in October.1 -
Also, after Saturday against Oxford away, our next 4 are at home against what you would call poorer opposition in this league. That's massive, we have to get a good return from those if we want to be challenging at all.0
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Half time on the first game! That year we won our first 4 games in the prem I was giving it large!3
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That will be when they finally come good!sam3110 said:
Haha, living in hope at all times! I just think once we click and get into the nitty gritty of the league we'll start putting results together, but it won't be consistent enough to bother the top 3-4 clubs. 6th in the league and playoff semifinal heartbreak against Sheffield United is my guessAlgarveaddick said:^^^^^ Look everyone - we have found the optimistic Charlton fan!
(I hope you are right, Sam)
Little pointer for those who say they only look come may, season ends on 3oth April this year
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If interested I would look from first game but only make deductions as to what it might mean from about game 12.
I find myself not interested this year, so haven't look much at all.1 -
When Duchatelet and Meire are gone.5
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I like the league tables before the season has started. The tables are usually in alphabetical order and Charlton always like promotion hopefuls at that stage.1
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Don't worry, each year we improve our ranking huh?1
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After we lose to Millwall for the 2nd time this season0
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I've still got a framed league table when we were top of the premier league after 1 game.0
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I start taking notice of the League table when we are on our 3rd head coach of the Season.0
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Every week because our league position determines my outlook on life. Middle-aged, down-trodden, brow-beaten, cynical, prone to bouts of anger and rage, especially the last two years. Please, please go or die so there is a chance to break the vicious circle, otherwise I fear I may throw the towel in completely.0
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I feel geeky ?Karim_myBagheri said:I've still got a framed league table when we were top of the premier league after 1 game.
2nd game we went top after the 5-0 thrashing of the Saints with super clive's hat trick.
1st game was 0-0 at Newcastle.1 -
yep that was our first season up.soapboxsam said:
I feel geeky ?Karim_myBagheri said:I've still got a framed league table when we were top of the premier league after 1 game.
2nd game we went top after the 5-0 thrashing of the Saints with super clive's hat trick.
1st game was 0-0 at Newcastle.
the one I got is from 2005 after 1 game and also there's one where we're top after 1 game in 2000.0 -
Last season I looked at the table at Christmas and realised we were totally screwed. I might wait until February this season...0
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International break and no league games for 2 weeks. Fail to win tomorrow, then will the League table need taking a look at?0
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We're still not in the relegation zone......0
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January.0
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Look at the table whenever you want to. We will end up where we will end up.(Deep) Personally I think we have more chance of bottom 3 than the Play-offs. I reckon Nightmare and Our Lord and Master will panic around xmas and sack Slade then its down from there on in. Only when they are gone will things improve and that's a Fact.2
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17th after 14 games. Anyone concerned and now looking at the league table?1
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Not really, we're not going down unless something massive happens and we probably should be mid-table if we didn't piss away leads. Think we'll improve a little and are on for my prediction of 12th-14th.shirty5 said:17th after 14 games. Anyone concerned and now looking at the league table?
It's not good, but I'm not concerned.0 -
No way will we go down. As poor as we've been, we're only 6 points off the play offs and would arguably be in them if Slade wasn't so negative and we didn't gave away so many points late on in games.
We'll beat enough teams to be ok for a finish 9th-12th i think.1 -
With Slade in charge Relegation shouldn't be ruled out.
I don't think we will go down and also think Slades apparent target of mid table medeority is a possibility - only if it's somebody else is managing the team though.2 -
Very tight league with no outstandingly good or bad sides it seems.
In such a situation attitude and morale become more important than usual and I fear ours could be found wanting when the pressure mounts particularly if Slade loses the dressing room.
In the unlikely event of us securing a couple of 'proper'midfielders in January my view might prove to be pessimistic but as it stands I just hope that there are four worst teams than us in the division.
Yes we may have only lost 3 but we've only won 3 too. Any points away from home are always positive but we seem to be drawing or losing at home apart from Shrewsbury and Coventry, both of whom are struggling in the bottom four.
Chesterfield on Saturday is already looking like a six pointer!2 -
I said that this time last season... I'm certain!Oh_Yoni_Boy said:
Not really, we're not going down unless something massive happens and we probably should be mid-table if we didn't piss away leads. Think we'll improve a little and are on for my prediction of 12th-14th.shirty5 said:17th after 14 games. Anyone concerned and now looking at the league table?
It's not good, but I'm not concerned.2 -
If we finish between 10th to 16th Slade will have carried out his remit from Duchatelet for this season.0
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I used to love looking at the league table and would follow it from game one. Nowadays it means nothing to me, to I just check towards the end of the season that the fools are on course for more failure.3
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Extract from Katrien Meire statement following our relegation last season:
"We all acknowledge that this is a difficult time for the club, but I and the club’s Senior Management Team will start the rebuilding work immediately. Our sole aim is to be fighting for promotion next season and our top priority is to put together a squad that can help Charlton Athletic get back into the Championship."
We've not beaten a single team in the top 11. 2 of our 3 wins were against teams in the bottom 3 (i.e. the ones that everyone's beating). We are 14 points behind where we were at this stage in the title-winning season, and 12 points behind where we were in the year when Parky got us to the play-offs.
The division was much tougher in both of those years, featuring the likes of Norwich, Leeds, the Sheffield sides, Southampton, Huddersfield, etc. This year, it's a pub league. Anything less than the play-offs is totally inexcusable and, whilst we might only be 6 points off the top 6, I've seen nothing to suggest that we'll be anywhere near that come the end of the season. Slade sets us up similarly to how Bolton played in the Premier League with Kevin Davies upfront, which is fine when you're trying to stay up, but nothing like ambitious enough to get the number of wins you need to mount a promotion challenge.
Not worried about relegation (mind you, I said that last year as well), but we're well on course to not even be in the top ten.12
