Thanks for all the upbeat comments and positives from the usual suspects.
Just remember who (still) owns us.
As much as I want him to go we’ve always made several signings each summer he’s owned the club.
Every year some predict he’ll stop us signing players and the manager will be forced to play the youth team. It’s not happened yet and Bowyer’s talking about 4/5 coming in over the next few weeks with more after that. Bowyer wouldn’t get hopes up like that unless it was realistic.
@Weegie Addick you seemed to have put the fox among the hens with this thread. (Couldn't resist !)
On a Charlton football forum, it's seems fine to start a thread about all our fears especially after the orgasmic highs(easy tiger) of Wembley.
Sorry to hear about your family illnesses, East stand loopy and I quite understand your anger but our daily lives are a soap opera and by fate we are Cafc fans, and we banter with each other on all different subjects. I was given a prognosis a few months ago that wasn't great but CL is Cathartic, and despite this Club giving me grief and pain over 50 years the highs of Wembley 98 and Wembley 2019 will be replayed in my mind as I'm having countless injections, scans, tablets and culminating in Radiotherapy, not great BUT this time next year I'm convinced Charlton and little old me will be back with a new soapbox and becoming a mid table championship side under new management ?
Well that's the plan, nature (I'm an atheist) willing.
Ps. Have a lovely Sunday and try to watch England play in Football WC at 4.30 in last 16.
Reeves released. Taylor, Dijksteel, Pearce, Pratley all linked with moves away. Fosu not really wanted. I'll give you George and Albie. A lot on their shoulders.
I keep telling you Dijksteel is happy here,not going anywhere. Infact could be x2.
As for the false hope of Wembley do me a favour its Roland in charge ..you should know what heres been like for the last 5years plus.
Was chatting to a colleague before the game at Wembley and said something to the effect that I was going to enjoy the day whatever the outcome was. Up or down, we had about 15 players who would be leaving us so the following year would be crap. I was desperate for promotion as falling back to L1 is one thing whereas falling into L2 i would genuinely fear for the future of our club.
in the end the day surpassed my wildest dreams and will be a memory forever and one I got to share with 3 generations of my family and a couple of other ling suffering Addicks in our small group.
if RD fails to sell at maximum value now then, really what are the chances of him ever managing to if he keeps cutting costs and we go down. He is a complete imbecile and his new nickname ‘the helmet’ is just so appropriate.
When we scored that goal I was elated not just because it meant we were promoted but because I thought it gave us a chance to "keep the band together".
Now it is in pieces. We still have Bow, JJ and Gallen. Plus Dillon, Solly, and Naby. Then the crocks, Page and JFC. Seems that could be just about it.
Head in hands time.
I’m with you on this one. I’m so wanting Duchatelet to sell so that I can start enjoying my football on Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays/Mondays again
Just a little reminder of what we are needing to replace. At a higher level, that replacement needs to be an improvement on what has left
Worth remembering how this squad was viewed last summer:
Cullen - good signing on paper but didn’t make much of an impact in the Championship with Bolton.
Taylor - another good signing on paper, though a big step up in expectations moving from Wimbledon.
Aribo - a promising player but not a first team regular. Wasn’t a goalscorer.
Sarr - back up player, completely written off by some.
Bielik - no real experience, had a short run of games at Birmingham and none at Walsall due to injury.
Phillips - proven in non-league after being loaned out but many had doubts about him in League One.
Bauer - solid but not outstanding CB.
Grant - some were ready to release him after the news that came out. Had a great loan spell scoring goals in League Two. Not many, if any, would have predicted 10+ goals in half a season.
Dijksteel - promising defensive midfielder, used at right back but was possibly to do a job and gain experience rather than a long term role for him.
Lapslie and Morgan - no real hype about them but both played their part. I’d be surprised if another youngster or two doesn’t emerge.
Many and arguably all of the above improved under Bowyer.
Then you’ve got others who were expected to be regulars that spent much of the season as squad players - Pearce, Igor and Fosu. It doesn’t always go the way we think it will.
If/when we sign players next week I expect there will again be a mix of underwhelming, unproven and those that have had more injuries than we’d like.
We might not play in the same style but I can see Bowyer finding a way to make a team which can compete with whatever he has.
There was no 'false hope' on my part. I was just elated that we got out of L1. I knew it would be a hard row to hoe in the Championship. I intend to enjoy the superior Championship standard of football in 2019/20 and I am convinced that we will stay up. Anywhere outside of the bottom three will do for me.. Come on Youse Addicksaaaaaa !! ((:>)
There's always going to be a dark cloud and material lack of fulfilling potential whilst the owner is here. But there's not much us fans can do in terms of materially speeding up a sale from what I can see.
Moping about it in perpetuity isn't going to help resolve the situation one iota and just serves to have an air of misery.
Not saying that acting all happy clappy and entirely disregarding the situation is necessarily the correct approach but there's perhaps a balance in between.
Bowyer and our team won't be taking a negative "we're doomed approach", quite the opposite.
The fan base should unite and use the situation to galvanise the spirit like v Doncaster and Wembley.
New owners should be better than the current clownshow but there's a real possibility they won't be or won't be everything we want them to be, such is modern football.
Best to enjoy the highs such as Wembley, enjoy the games this season and supporting Bowyer and the lads and do what we realistically can in regards to everything else, which doesn't appear too much.
Continually focusing on the negatives isn't going to do anything other than make you miserable and I've had enough of that over the years so looking forward to enjoying the forthcoming season on the back of an amazing Wembley day. Sod everything else it will resolve itself when it does and nothing I can do to change it.
There was no 'false hope' on my part. I was just elated that we got out of L1. I knew it would be a hard row to hoe in the Championship. I intend to enjoy the superior Championship standard of football in 2019/20 and I am convinced that we will stay up. Anywhere outside of the bottom three will do for me.. Come on Youse Addicksaaaaaa !! ((:>)
"hard row to hoe" is new on me. Must be a Lincolnshire cabbage farmer's saying.
There was no 'false hope' on my part. I was just elated that we got out of L1. I knew it would be a hard row to hoe in the Championship. I intend to enjoy the superior Championship standard of football in 2019/20 and I am convinced that we will stay up. Anywhere outside of the bottom three will do for me.. Come on Youse Addicksaaaaaa !! ((:>)
"hard row to hoe" is new on me. Must be a Lincolnshire cabbage farmer's saying.
your lack of knowledge of common English idiom is worrying
There was no 'false hope' on my part. I was just elated that we got out of L1. I knew it would be a hard row to hoe in the Championship. I intend to enjoy the superior Championship standard of football in 2019/20 and I am convinced that we will stay up. Anywhere outside of the bottom three will do for me.. Come on Youse Addicksaaaaaa !! ((:>)
"hard row to hoe" is new on me. Must be a Lincolnshire cabbage farmer's saying.
your lack of knowledge of common English idiom is worrying
Bullshit, hardly common. Name a well read novel the saying has appeared in. I read 2-3 books a week and have never come across it although I get the meaning.
There was no 'false hope' on my part. I was just elated that we got out of L1. I knew it would be a hard row to hoe in the Championship. I intend to enjoy the superior Championship standard of football in 2019/20 and I am convinced that we will stay up. Anywhere outside of the bottom three will do for me.. Come on Youse Addicksaaaaaa !! ((:>)
"hard row to hoe" is new on me. Must be a Lincolnshire cabbage farmer's saying.
your lack of knowledge of common English idiom is worrying
Bullshit, hardly common. Name a well read novel the saying has appeared in. I read 2-3 books a week and have never come across it although I get the meaning.
you should expand your reading from Noddy & Big Ears to grown up books with lots of words of more than five letters
There was no 'false hope' on my part. I was just elated that we got out of L1. I knew it would be a hard row to hoe in the Championship. I intend to enjoy the superior Championship standard of football in 2019/20 and I am convinced that we will stay up. Anywhere outside of the bottom three will do for me.. Come on Youse Addicksaaaaaa !! ((:>)
"hard row to hoe" is new on me. Must be a Lincolnshire cabbage farmer's saying.
your lack of knowledge of common English idiom is worrying
Bullshit, hardly common. Name a well read novel the saying has appeared in. I read 2-3 books a week and have never come across it although I get the meaning.
you should expand your reading from Noddy & Big Ears to grown up books with lots of words of more than five letters
Sorry I missed the bit where you named a book the quote appeared in. Bullshit has more than five letters.
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Every year some predict he’ll stop us signing players and the manager will be forced to play the youth team. It’s not happened yet and Bowyer’s talking about 4/5 coming in over the next few weeks with more after that. Bowyer wouldn’t get hopes up like that unless it was realistic.
But at least 8-9 of them are no loss at all and easily replaced.
However it's highly likely that with no Bielik, Cullen or Aribo we will have a worse midfield in the championship than we did in league one.
But let's see what Bowyer and Gallen do, i'm sure they'll produce some more magic.
(Couldn't resist !)
On a Charlton football forum, it's seems fine to start a thread about all our fears especially after the orgasmic highs(easy tiger) of Wembley.
Sorry to hear about your family illnesses, East stand loopy and I quite understand your anger but our daily lives are a soap opera and by fate we are Cafc fans, and we banter with each other on all different subjects. I was given a prognosis a few months ago that wasn't great but CL is Cathartic, and despite this Club giving me grief and pain over 50 years the highs of Wembley 98 and Wembley 2019 will be replayed in my mind as I'm having countless injections, scans, tablets and culminating in Radiotherapy, not great BUT this time next year I'm convinced Charlton and little old me will be back with a new soapbox and becoming a mid table championship side under new management ?
Well that's the plan, nature (I'm an atheist) willing.
Ps. Have a lovely Sunday and try to watch England play in Football WC at 4.30 in last 16.
Same would love one of these
I keep telling you Dijksteel is happy here,not going anywhere. Infact could be x2.
As for the false hope of Wembley do me a favour its Roland in charge ..you should know what heres been like for the last 5years plus.
Keep you chin up Weegie.
in the end the day surpassed my wildest dreams and will be a memory forever and one I got to share with 3 generations of my family and a couple of other ling suffering Addicks in our small group.
if RD fails to sell at maximum value now then, really what are the chances of him ever managing to if he keeps cutting costs and we go down. He is a complete imbecile and his new nickname ‘the helmet’ is just so appropriate.
Cullen - good signing on paper but didn’t make much of an impact in the Championship with Bolton.
Taylor - another good signing on paper, though a big step up in expectations moving from Wimbledon.
Aribo - a promising player but not a first team regular. Wasn’t a goalscorer.
Sarr - back up player, completely written off by some.
Bielik - no real experience, had a short run of games at Birmingham and none at Walsall due to injury.
Phillips - proven in non-league after being loaned out but many had doubts about him in League One.
Bauer - solid but not outstanding CB.
Grant - some were ready to release him after the news that came out. Had a great loan spell scoring goals in League Two. Not many, if any, would have predicted 10+ goals in half a season.
Dijksteel - promising defensive midfielder, used at right back but was possibly to do a job and gain experience rather than a long term role for him.
Lapslie and Morgan - no real hype about them but both played their part. I’d be surprised if another youngster or two doesn’t emerge.
Many and arguably all of the above improved under Bowyer.
Then you’ve got others who were expected to be regulars that spent much of the season as squad players - Pearce, Igor and Fosu. It doesn’t always go the way we think it will.
If/when we sign players next week I expect there will again be a mix of underwhelming, unproven and those that have had more injuries than we’d like.
We might not play in the same style but I can see Bowyer finding a way to make a team which can compete with whatever he has.
I intend to enjoy the superior Championship standard of football in 2019/20 and I am convinced that we will stay up. Anywhere outside of the bottom three will do for me.. Come on Youse Addicksaaaaaa !! ((:>)
Moping about it in perpetuity isn't going to help resolve the situation one iota and just serves to have an air of misery.
Not saying that acting all happy clappy and entirely disregarding the situation is necessarily the correct approach but there's perhaps a balance in between.
Bowyer and our team won't be taking a negative "we're doomed approach", quite the opposite.
The fan base should unite and use the situation to galvanise the spirit like v Doncaster and Wembley.
New owners should be better than the current clownshow but there's a real possibility they won't be or won't be everything we want them to be, such is modern football.
Best to enjoy the highs such as Wembley, enjoy the games this season and supporting Bowyer and the lads and do what we realistically can in regards to everything else, which doesn't appear too much.
Continually focusing on the negatives isn't going to do anything other than make you miserable and I've had enough of that over the years so looking forward to enjoying the forthcoming season on the back of an amazing Wembley day. Sod everything else it will resolve itself when it does and nothing I can do to change it.
The exodus has not surprised me.