I think 2018 has been a positive year for us with Bowyer and Jackson improving us as a side and despite Roland still our owner his intention of selling the club will hopefully mean once he has sold then we can restore faith and move forward from this. I’d be surprised and pretty angry if 2019 isn’t the year we will have new ownership.
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Might not be in the early part of that period but I feel there is a chance it might happen during that period.
Yet another rebuild for next season.
No continuity whatsoever.
Nothing changes until Roland sells.
Hopefully I am wrong but I can’t see a sale until 2020.
Tangible assets -
stadium, surrounding land and training ground - Duchâtelet has given us new seats and a new pitch, he has failed to deliver on training ground, under pitch heating and latterly basic cleanliness. Overall a marginal fail
Player contracts - from selling Yann, hiring Sarr and Vetokele in such long contracts to then not having anyone on hardly any length contract at all. Total failure from beginning to end leaving us with an overall set of contracts worth close to nil or maybe negative.
Intangible asset
Fan base and support
Complete failure to understand, engage, retain, develop. Brilliant work on antagonising, pissing off, generation of protests and boycotts. Would have had to try seriously hard to do worse.
Overall report:
Terrible owner, should sell immediately for whatever he can get for the sake of his own bank balance, ease of life in Belgium and for the future of Charlton.
The fan base is split in more pieces than the three tier wedding cake.
Still not sold dispite the owners muse leaving over a year ago.
Amazing job by Bowyer, Jackson and Galleon with the debacle off the pitch and the myriad of injuries on it.
The impasse continues but in some ways I thought we would be closer to League 2 by this time so I'm surprised that 2018 hasn't been annus horribilis, even through its still a giant pain in the arse having Duchatelet as owner.
No amount of capital letter, exclamation marked rally calling can paper over that sadly.
1) the fucker hasn’t sold
2) the prospect of sale has killed most protests
3) the club continues to depreciate in value as contracts of good players run off and good players are sold for less than market value
On the plus side Bowyer, JJ and the scouting team have done very well with naff all and we aren’t in as awful position as we could be.
Year .... Played ..... Won .......... Drew ........ Lost ............ GF ..... GA ..... PTS
2018 ..... 47 ..... 23 (49%) ..... 8 (17%) ....... 16 (34% ) .... 67 ..... 50 ..... 77
2017 ..... 46 ......17 (36%) ..... 14 (31%) ..... 15 (33%) ..... 62 ..... 58 ..... 65
2016 ..... 46 ......12 (26%) ..... 17 (37%) ..... 17 (37%) ..... 48 ..... 64 ..... 53
2018 showed a few interesting trends when compared with previous calendar years;
* Charlton are still losing as many games as we always did, but recently by smaller margins.
* In 2018 we have turned a lot of draws into wins, which makes a big difference to the points tally.
* Our goal scoring ability has improved steadily.
* Our defence has tightened up considerably as well.
There is measurable and undeniable progress being made on the pitch, added to which many fans seem to be generally happier with the way the team is playing under Lee Bowyer than it was under Robinson or Slade.
The trend suggests a 'top 4' play-off place finish this season rather than 5th or 6th, which could make a vital difference if Charlton end up playing Sunderland or Portsmouth for instance - though I think we are much less likely to have to face Sunderland or Pompey if we do finish 3rd or 4th, as should one of them fail to go up automatically I would expect them to finish above 5th place.
Play-off results are a lot about form on the day, injuries and other difficult-to-quantify factors, but the advantage of a home game in the second leg is definitely worth trying to achieve, regardless of the opponent.
I would suggest that finishing this season in 3rd or 4th place should be regarded as a realistic target at this point.
An automatic place is not totally out of reach, but I think it would need a serious drop-off in form by two of the current top three teams to give Charlton a real chance of automatic promotion - as well as a terrific last 21 results for us. Not an impossible combination, but pretty unlikely.
5th or 6th place will keep the season alive of course, but with an increased possibility we may not have enough left to get past our play-off semi-final opponents for a chance of Wembley glory.
Some by the way I agree with.
But I have come to the conclusion that the best way to resolve our problem is.
Just sell the club and FUCK OFF
As for investment in the team to produce success on the field, he’s never been interested in that.
Just sell the club and f*** off you horrible man.