I am, and I am sure others are as well, sick of hearing that Bowyer could only sign the dregs that no one else wanted after the takeover.
So for convenience can you all put who these substandard players we were forced to sign on minimal wages here?
Not who hasn't performed to a standard you would expect from them. Just the ones no one else wanted. For avoidance of doubt let's leave Bogle out of it/have him as a given.
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It’s totally understandable that some supporters get upset because their aspirations aren’t being met.
Me, I’m mainly happy that we have a new more positive future but not sure it necessarily includes all the current players or coaching staff.
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Dreadful footballer who had the bloody cheek to cup his ears once when he scored
Of the current lot I think we have a strong squad but for whatever reason we just aren’t clicking as a team and there are far too many individual mistakes
So, you have to ask yourself, if the players are good enough is our poor form down to the manager. I never want a manager sacked (well, maybe Dowie & Robinson) but I just don't see the Bowyer of 2 seasons ago. This time in 2019 he would constantly come out with the mantra "we are getting top 2....have no doubt" and he believed it. This time its blame this player, blame that player - sub this one after 30 mins, drop that one after scoring. Something isn't right. And you can't pin it all on 2 injured defenders who have only played half a dozen games together, haven't played above this level & were only thrown together in October.
As I said, I don't want anyone sacked, but you have to ask where would we be now if he had gone after xmas & would a new manager get more out of these players, because I know they are good enough (on paper) to secure a top 6 spot.
Matthews was holding out for a championship club and then signed for us late in the day, so I presume no-one else wanted him. We re-signed Williams and I didn't see him linked with anywhere else. We signed Maddison too without anyone courting him. Inniss was another that was signed without mention of anyone else wanting him. To be honest it's very difficult to prove that other clubs wanted players what with so many rumours that fly about from bullshit sources.
Getting back to Charlton I wouldn't call any of our present midfield players dregs but they just haven't gelled as a unit.
We must have about 10 fairly decent midfield players in our squad but whatever formation Bowyer uses and whatever players he picks it never seems to work.
The 2nd half against Wimbledon being about the only time in the last dozen or so games being the exception.
I said on another thread it's like trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together but with pieces from different puzzles they just don't fit.
We know losing our two best defender's has cost us this season but it's our misfiring midfield that baffles me the most.
No team is too good to fail - If football was about the best group of players winning then it would be pretty boring and you wouldnt even have instances of Leicester winning as did they have the best group of playerss that year in the whole league?
That competitive gap gets smaller and smaller the further down the leagues you go, as we've seen from this run of late, sometimes commitment and desire as a group of players will get you results, talent on the other hand will only get you so far. Just take someone like Ravel Morrison for example
Steve Brown made an excellent comment yesterday, "rarely are the players 100%"
There is always something troubling them... Whether its fitness, or whether its players struggling to get motivated due to the lockdown or other factors we just dont know about and rightly dont know about!! - You have to remember that some players are far from home and family so may well be having difficulty with that being a factor - Of course you could argue that other teams are surely no different but that comes back to the individuals and how we each cope.
Bowyer of course should be able to motivate his players accordingly but there is only so much he can do himself
You can take a horse to water!!
Or are fans (in general) oblivious enough to think that Jordan Ibe (for example) is a rare case?
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Last season you could absolutely put Joe Ledley and David Davis into the 'we need someone it doesn't matter who' category.
Even Matt Smith who did nothing of note for us is playing regularly and performing well for Doncaster who are above us in the table.
Flip the question around and you could ask how many of the new signings have really gone on to pull up trees? You would have expected some of them to have done better than they have. In fact I think the two central defenders had impressed most, but theyve been out injured for months now.
Multiple people on other threads have said, using verious, different adjectives, that you can't judge the manager because the players are not good enough. Yet no one as been able to tell me who these poor players are.
To answer your flipped question none.
Hope thats ok and does not offend anyones delicate CAFC sensibilities on here?