I may be wrong, but I cannot see any appointment being made for the next few weeks. We have a tough set of fixtures, plus major injury worries on two of our best players, and will probably not win many games between now and Xmas. That will allow them to then sack the interim one (thanks Kevin!), and take the desperate measure of installing Chris O'Loughlin as nothing else has worked. We will be in the relegation zone, out of the cups, and playing before sparse crowds, and still NightMeire will say we are improving the ranking of de clob. Other than to make a fast buck (as Slade did), why would any reasonable British manager step forward to take over at CAFC? They would have no squad, coaching staff planted on them, and no money in January unless Lookman is sold (which NightMeire has said will not happen, so it probably will!); even then, the allowance from any sales will be paltry by comparison. Desperate, desperate times.
The stated aim, with our Top 6 budgie, is to fly back to the Championship (we're in a new era btw), but therein lies the problem. I could understand wanting to 'secure our place' back in the Championship and build towards a promotion challenge, but this lot aren't capable of thinking that far ahead, even if they wanted to.
Again, the stated aim is to give a matchday experience so people can watch the Premiership stars of the future - there's no ambition beyond the player farm idea and, frankly, can you see Meire & co runinng a Premiership club?
They have Lookman & co on the books, the Valley & Sparrows Lane (which must be worth it's weight in gold), interest on loans to Strapix, the loans themselves which any new owner would have to pay... Financially I'm pretty sure they've got their arses covered.
Meire's got her arse covered by being part of his 'family' and can do no wrong, and I'm sure the old boy's happy with the shit she feeds him every week. In any event, I'm sure the balance sheet works out (on paper, with eventual sales and hidden assets added on) to his benefit. So in his deluded eyes she's doing just fine and dandy, and she's on the board of the EFL. I'm sure they'd prefer to be in the Championship because they think they'd have bigger crowds - personally I think 6/8k real seats is the best they can hope for - but even if we go down to L2 I don't see that denting Meire's credibility in the eyes of our duck taped demi-god. You need to wait 3 or 4 years until there are no more Lookmans to sell - when even an 11 year old wouldn't touch our academy with a bargepole, for the reality to bite.
There are many fans who appropriate our players to an imagined protected family, like caring for a child, or a dog.
You've missed it. Good football is about danger. It is heroic: about superb technical skills, guts and fire. Quick intelligence, rehearsed wit to know what your mate is doing – then score.
We are dull men. Look at our academy. Joe Piggott – many fans cosseted him. Failed. Poyet: all that crab-like defence. Failed. Callum Harriott – dribbled around on the periphery. Failed.
Children are beguiled by a step-over: Lookman does it and the fans swoon with delight. Yet, watch his pass – straight to our opponents, who surge forward.
Directly after half-time, at 0-0, we must come out fighting. Home at The Valley. Go for the jugular.
Yet, we are bogged down for 20 minutes in this dreary back-left corner while Fox makes a mess of it all – a ricochet for a disputed throw. And again.
Twenty minutes to go, and there's a long, high pass from the right to Lookman on the left – searing and true. During the trajectory, three defenders ambush him. He hasn't got a hope: our midfielders are trundling thirty yards away. Another throw-in. Our opponents are winning.
There was a lovely vignette a few years back under Powell at the Covered End. Ball flashed over the six-yard box – and Jackson, Kermorgant and Bradley Wright-Phillips dived at once and ended in an architectural towering heap, one on each – ball had gone out – and BWP, at the bottom, hammered his fists on the turf in frustration.
Josh Magennis has this vital intensity, too. Home to Coventry a couple of weeks ago. Bang! – He sprinted off to the corner, nicked the ball off an unsuspecting defender, muscled across, and scored. Ten minutes later, he did it again: set up Lookman six yards out – who skied to the upper tier.
Magennis and Holmes did not come through our academy.
There are many fans who appropriate our players to an imagined protected family, like caring for a child, or a dog.
You've missed it. Good football is about danger. It is heroic: about superb technical skills, guts and fire. Quick intelligence, rehearsed wit to know what your mate is doing – then score.
We are dull men. Look at our academy. Joe Piggott – many fans cosseted him. Failed. Poyet: all that crab-like defence. Failed. Callum Harriott – dribbled around on the periphery. Failed.
Children are beguiled by a step-over: Lookman does it and the fans swoon with delight. Yet, watch his pass – straight to our opponents, who surge forward.
Directly after half-time, at 0-0, we must come out fighting. Home at The Valley. Go for the jugular.
Yet, we are bogged down for 20 minutes in this dreary back-left corner while Fox makes a mess of it all – a ricochet for a disputed throw. And again.
Twenty minutes to go, and there's a long, high pass from the right to Lookman on the left – searing and true. During the trajectory, three defenders ambush him. He hasn't got a hope: our midfielders are trundling thirty yards away. Another throw-in. Our opponents are winning.
There was a lovely vignette a few years back under Powell at the Covered End. Ball flashed over the six-yard box – and Jackson, Kermorgant and Bradley Wright-Phillips dived at once and ended in an architectural towering heap, one on each – ball had gone out – and BWP, at the bottom, hammered his fists on the turf in frustration.
Josh Magennis has this intensity, too. Home to Coventry a couple of weeks ago. Bang! – He sprinted off to the corner, nicked the ball off an unsuspecting defender, muscled across, and scored. Ten minutes later, he did it again: set up Lookman six yards out – who skied to the upper tier.
Magennis and Holmes did not come through our academy.
some of your stuff is almost Brian Glanville esqe ((:>)
There are many fans who appropriate our players to an imagined protected family, like caring for a child, or a dog.
You've missed it. Good football is about danger. It is heroic: about superb technical skills, guts and fire. Quick intelligence, rehearsed wit to know what your mate is doing – then score.
We are dull men. Look at our academy. Joe Piggott – many fans cosseted him. Failed. Poyet: all that crab-like defence. Failed. Callum Harriott – dribbled around on the periphery. Failed.
Children are beguiled by a step-over: Lookman does it and the fans swoon with delight. Yet, watch his pass – straight to our opponents, who surge forward.
Directly after half-time, at 0-0, we must come out fighting. Home at The Valley. Go for the jugular.
Yet, we are bogged down for 20 minutes in this dreary back-left corner while Fox makes a mess of it all – a ricochet for a disputed throw. And again.
Twenty minutes to go, and there's a long, high pass from the right to Lookman on the left – searing and true. During the trajectory, three defenders ambush him. He hasn't got a hope: our midfielders are trundling thirty yards away. Another throw-in. Our opponents are winning.
There was a lovely vignette a few years back under Powell at the Covered End. Ball flashed over the six-yard box – and Jackson, Kermorgant and Bradley Wright-Phillips dived at once and ended in an architectural towering heap, one on each – ball had gone out – and BWP, at the bottom, hammered his fists on the turf in frustration.
Josh Magennis has this intensity, too. Home to Coventry a couple of weeks ago. Bang! – He sprinted off to the corner, nicked the ball off an unsuspecting defender, muscled across, and scored. Ten minutes later, he did it again: set up Lookman six yards out – who skied to the upper tier.
Magennis and Holmes did not come through our academy.
MK Dons are linked with Stevie G. Shows they have ambition and are taken seriously. We are a non entity. No one takes us seriously. RD and KM and your hangers on- do you not get it?
MK Dons are linked with Stevie G. Shows they have ambition and are taken seriously. We are a non entity. No one takes us seriously. RD and KM and your hangers on- do you not get it?
MK Dons are linked with Stevie G. Shows they have ambition and are taken seriously. We are a non entity. No one takes us seriously. RD and KM and your hangers on- do you not get it?
Why? Zero managerial experience whatsoever
Because he wants to get a managerial gig and has the pedigree as a player to start that off at a club plying it's trade in the third teir of English football. Would have a lot of contacts and attract players.
Whether he will make it is almost incidental. It's just how things work.
Agree with Spiced Addick: 'The blocked up toilet that is Charlton has overflowed again,' is a most appropriate metaphor. So cabbles wins the poet of the week award.
My request is for Roland to find a coach with a surname like Fanni, or something like that, so we can have a good chuckle as we weep. No experience necessary.
I may be wrong, but I cannot see any appointment being made for the next few weeks. We have a tough set of fixtures, plus major injury worries on two of our best players, and will probably not win many games between now and Xmas. That will allow them to then sack the interim one (thanks Kevin!), and take the desperate measure of installing Chris O'Loughlin as nothing else has worked. We will be in the relegation zone, out of the cups, and playing before sparse crowds, and still NightMeire will say we are improving the ranking of de clob. Other than to make a fast buck (as Slade did), why would any reasonable British manager step forward to take over at CAFC? They would have no squad, coaching staff planted on them, and no money in January unless Lookman is sold (which NightMeire has said will not happen, so it probably will!); even then, the allowance from any sales will be paltry by comparison. Desperate, desperate times.
The stated aim, with our Top 6 budgie, is to fly back to the Championship (we're in a new era btw), but therein lies the problem. I could understand wanting to 'secure our place' back in the Championship and build towards a promotion challenge, but this lot aren't capable of thinking that far ahead, even if they wanted to.
Again, the stated aim is to give a matchday experience so people can watch the Premiership stars of the future - there's no ambition beyond the player farm idea and, frankly, can you see Meire & co runinng a Premiership club?
They have Lookman & co on the books, the Valley & Sparrows Lane (which must be worth it's weight in gold), interest on loans to Strapix, the loans themselves which any new owner would have to pay... Financially I'm pretty sure they've got their arses covered.
Meire's got her arse covered by being part of his 'family' and can do no wrong, and I'm sure the old boy's happy with the shit she feeds him every week. In any event, I'm sure the balance sheet works out (on paper, with eventual sales and hidden assets added on) to his benefit. So in his deluded eyes she's doing just fine and dandy, and she's on the board of the EFL. I'm sure they'd prefer to be in the Championship because they think they'd have bigger crowds - personally I think 6/8k real seats is the best they can hope for - but even if we go down to L2 I don't see that denting Meire's credibility in the eyes of our duck taped demi-god. You need to wait 3 or 4 years until there are no more Lookmans to sell - when even an 11 year old wouldn't touch our academy with a bargepole, for the reality to bite.
After retiring as a player in February 2015, Caldwell formally joined the coaching staff at the Wigan Athletic academy.[19] He was appointed the new manager of Wigan Athletic on 7 April 2015 after the sacking of Malky Mackay with the club 23rd in the Championship with five games remaining.[20]
He was unable to halt the clubs relegation to League One but was assured by club chairman David Sharpe that he would remain in charge.[21] The following season Caldwell guided Wigan to the League One title and promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt.[22] Along with club success Caldwell was also recognised with the manager of the month award for February[23] and the LMA League One Manager of the Year award.[24]On the 23 October 2016 after 18 months in charge, Caldwell was sacked by Wigan Athletic with the club in 23rd position and winless in four games. [25]
This would suggest he's got something about him wouldn't it
Devil's advocate, we do not have a striker who will get half the goals that Will Grigg got last season at Charlton
Yes we have
Ajose scored the same number of goals as Grigg did last season!
After retiring as a player in February 2015, Caldwell formally joined the coaching staff at the Wigan Athletic academy.[19] He was appointed the new manager of Wigan Athletic on 7 April 2015 after the sacking of Malky Mackay with the club 23rd in the Championship with five games remaining.[20]
He was unable to halt the clubs relegation to League One but was assured by club chairman David Sharpe that he would remain in charge.[21] The following season Caldwell guided Wigan to the League One title and promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt.[22] Along with club success Caldwell was also recognised with the manager of the month award for February[23] and the LMA League One Manager of the Year award.[24]On the 23 October 2016 after 18 months in charge, Caldwell was sacked by Wigan Athletic with the club in 23rd position and winless in four games. [25]
This would suggest he's got something about him wouldn't it
Devil's advocate, we do not have a striker who will get half the goals that Will Grigg got last season at Charlton
Yes we have
Ajose scored the same number of goals as Grigg did last season!
Will Grigg has scored twenty plus goals in 3 league one season. Ajose might have got 24 last year but it is looking very much like that was a one off.
There are many fans who appropriate our players to an imagined protected family, like caring for a child, or a dog.
You've missed it. Good football is about danger. It is heroic: about superb technical skills, guts and fire. Quick intelligence, rehearsed wit to know what your mate is doing – then score.
We are dull men. Look at our academy. Joe Piggott – many fans cosseted him. Failed. Poyet: all that crab-like defence. Failed. Callum Harriott – dribbled around on the periphery. Failed.
Children are beguiled by a step-over: Lookman does it and the fans swoon with delight. Yet, watch his pass – straight to our opponents, who surge forward.
Directly after half-time, at 0-0, we must come out fighting. Home at The Valley. Go for the jugular.
Yet, we are bogged down for 20 minutes in this dreary back-left corner while Fox makes a mess of it all – a ricochet for a disputed throw. And again.
Twenty minutes to go, and there's a long, high pass from the right to Lookman on the left – searing and true. During the trajectory, three defenders ambush him. He hasn't got a hope: our midfielders are trundling thirty yards away. Another throw-in. Our opponents are winning.
There was a lovely vignette a few years back under Powell at the Covered End. Ball flashed over the six-yard box – and Jackson, Kermorgant and Bradley Wright-Phillips dived at once and ended in an architectural towering heap, one on each – ball had gone out – and BWP, at the bottom, hammered his fists on the turf in frustration.
Josh Magennis has this vital intensity, too. Home to Coventry a couple of weeks ago. Bang! – He sprinted off to the corner, nicked the ball off an unsuspecting defender, muscled across, and scored. Ten minutes later, he did it again: set up Lookman six yards out – who skied to the upper tier.
Magennis and Holmes did not come through our academy.
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So my guess is he is not coming or the regime is just being incredibly stupid in making it difficult for him to accept.
Again, the stated aim is to give a matchday experience so people can watch the Premiership stars of the future - there's no ambition beyond the player farm idea and, frankly, can you see Meire & co runinng a Premiership club?
They have Lookman & co on the books, the Valley & Sparrows Lane (which must be worth it's weight in gold), interest on loans to Strapix, the loans themselves which any new owner would have to pay... Financially I'm pretty sure they've got their arses covered.
Meire's got her arse covered by being part of his 'family' and can do no wrong, and I'm sure the old boy's happy with the shit she feeds him every week. In any event, I'm sure the balance sheet works out (on paper, with eventual sales and hidden assets added on) to his benefit. So in his deluded eyes she's doing just fine and dandy, and she's on the board of the EFL. I'm sure they'd prefer to be in the Championship because they think they'd have bigger crowds - personally I think 6/8k real seats is the best they can hope for - but even if we go down to L2 I don't see that denting Meire's credibility in the eyes of our duck taped demi-god. You need to wait 3 or 4 years until there are no more Lookmans to sell - when even an 11 year old wouldn't touch our academy with a bargepole, for the reality to bite.
Such is the state of our club
You've missed it. Good football is about danger. It is heroic: about superb technical skills, guts and fire. Quick intelligence, rehearsed wit to know what your mate is doing – then score.
We are dull men. Look at our academy. Joe Piggott – many fans cosseted him. Failed. Poyet: all that crab-like defence. Failed. Callum Harriott – dribbled around on the periphery. Failed.
Children are beguiled by a step-over: Lookman does it and the fans swoon with delight. Yet, watch his pass – straight to our opponents, who surge forward.
Directly after half-time, at 0-0, we must come out fighting. Home at The Valley. Go for the jugular.
Yet, we are bogged down for 20 minutes in this dreary back-left corner while Fox makes a mess of it all – a ricochet for a disputed throw. And again.
Twenty minutes to go, and there's a long, high pass from the right to Lookman on the left – searing and true. During the trajectory, three defenders ambush him. He hasn't got a hope: our midfielders are trundling thirty yards away. Another throw-in. Our opponents are winning.
There was a lovely vignette a few years back under Powell at the Covered End. Ball flashed over the six-yard box – and Jackson, Kermorgant and Bradley Wright-Phillips dived at once and ended in an architectural towering heap, one on each – ball had gone out – and BWP, at the bottom, hammered his fists on the turf in frustration.
Josh Magennis has this vital intensity, too. Home to Coventry a couple of weeks ago. Bang! – He sprinted off to the corner, nicked the ball off an unsuspecting defender, muscled across, and scored. Ten minutes later, he did it again: set up Lookman six yards out – who skied to the upper tier.
Magennis and Holmes did not come through our academy.
At least it would give us even more coverage & I can see KM making sure he got what he wanted.
go get him.
If not, I'd like to know wtf is doing the background work and interview.
Hark! I hear squirrel face in the background..........
What a f****** shambles!
We are a non entity. No one takes us seriously.
RD and KM and your hangers on- do you not get it?
Whether he will make it is almost incidental. It's just how things work.
My request is for Roland to find a coach with a surname like Fanni, or something like that, so we can have a good chuckle as we weep. No experience necessary.
Yes we have
Ajose scored the same number of goals as Grigg did last season!
Yes we have
Ajose scored the same number of goals as Grigg did last season!
Will Grigg has scored twenty plus goals in 3 league one season. Ajose might have got 24 last year but it is looking very much like that was a one off.