From the newshopper
"We’ve worked very hard to get ourselves in this position, we’re a few points off the play-offs with two games in hand. With all the rubbish that’s gone on this year in relation to the injuries, it’s quite remarkable that we’ve put ourselves in a position to be competitive.
All of the things I’ve done as a manager, this has been as hard a 12 months as I’ve gone through.
I want to give [player-coach] Johnnie Jackson and [assistant manager] Lee Bowyer a special mention because they've been unbelievable. Don't forget, you've got Lee Bowyer who’s never done this before and Johnnie Jackson who’s in a new role. These two people have been thrown into the deep end with some of the worst luck we've had [with injuries] in a long time.
You've got [head of medical services] Alastair Thrush, [sports scientist] Josh Hornby, [physiotherapist] Adam Coe, [strength and conditioning coach] Ian Jones [assistant therapist] Steve Jackson, Lee Turner our goalkeeping coach and Chris Jones our club doctor. It’s important I mention these people. They've been absolutely brilliant. They've had this hard as well. I want to mention how important they are and I want people to understand how hard these people have worked to drive us forward.
That goes through Lianne at reception, [player liaison officer] Tracey Leaburn, [club secretary] Chris Parkes and Brett Shaw our analyst. Also, Steve Gallen on the recruitment side. They have worked so hard. They've all been unbelievable. I hope we get the success these people deserve.
Fans will be frustrated with results. What we speak to you about, I’ve never ever, ever, not taken responsibility when I think we've done something wrong. At this moment in time, it [the injuries] is out of my control, it’s out of my staff’s control but we do have control over the players that are fit.
We’re going to need the fans to get behind them. We’re going to lose some games and we’re going to have poor performances. But at this moment in time, we can’t let this [injuries] affect us.
We’ve got to make sure we stay on the front foot. I’ll try to do the best I can. The takeover is not far away, there are so many things going on.
Walking into this football club over 12 months ago, it was all over the place. We sit here in a much healthier position. We were worried about relegation this time last year, now we’re talking about competing to get out of the league and we’re in the midst of a takeover.
So, over £10m in player sales, and we’re in a very, very good position. Our squad is young and fresh, it will get better. It’s a better team than 12 months ago.
We are giving everything we possibly have. And I know the players are doing the exact same thing as well."
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Lianne on reception has done an unbelievable job.
"We’ve worked very hard to get ourselves in this position, we’re a few points off the play-offs with two games in hand. With all the rubbish that’s gone on this year in relation to the injuries, it’s quite remarkable that we’ve put ourselves in a position to be competitive"
Utter bollocks. We are 7th in league one and he thinks that's remarkable. No Karl, what's remarkable is that you're trying to somehow put a positive spin on a run of 4 wins in 16 games.
"So, over £10m in player sales, and we’re in a very, very good position. Our squad is young and fresh, it will get better. It’s a better team than 12 months ago."
Young and fresh how exactly? 3 of our best players are on loan, 2 of them are injured.
Our right back has a body slowly packing up on him. Kashi is supposedly injured. Clarke is out for months. Page has been injured forever. Pearce is in and out of the treatment room. Fosu, JFC, Reeves and Bauer have also been injured at times. In fact about the only outfield player who hasn't been injured is Magennis and he must be half dead as he has to play every minute of every game. Also the manager seemingly doesn't rate Ajose and doesn't pick Zyro.
Yes, what a young and fresh squad we have!
Hopefully we won't have to listen to Robinson talking bollox for much longer.
The time for talking has finished mate - time for action .
Can't remember a single occasion when he's held his hands up and said it's his fault. Lays blame with everyone but himself.
ANY manager would have this Charlton squad 7th position or higher , so to brand what he has himself done as remarkable is utter crap!
Injuries have occurred where he has rushed players back, bad performances have been a lot of the time due to his inept tactics and ability... its more remarkable that he keeps pushing this bollocks
Roland must be thanking his lucky stars that some fans are blaming Karl for the woes of the team rather than him. Actually I doubt he even gives a shit about that.
To have a squad that is set for the automatic promotion places you need a balance of youth and experience, you need some aggressive players who can mix it and cope with a battle, and you need the ability to score plenty of goals. Do you genuinely believe we have that squad?
Personally I think we were heading for League Two with 'the squad we've got' a year and a half ago.
I think Karl has been lacking in flexibility with the formation he uses, tactics and team selection, but under the circumstances, he's not been the complete disaster that you seem to think imho, and he has at least steadied the ship in very difficult times.
Thanks in advance for the abuse that's coming lol.
Tbh, when I see us playing well, like up at MKD (well for 65 mins we were) I tend to think it's a bit of a miracle. Our default position when, we haven't got our best players all fit, is mediocre against a weak side, disastrous against a big strong side. You think under RD he's had the freedom to build the squad of his dreams?
And I'm sure there'll be people replying listing all our squad, saying isn't it great? Well sorry, I don't think it is really.
By adding all the other names it will show I'm banging the drum for them so they will back me to said new owners whilst also deflecting it is really all about showing me in a good light.