Bolton fan here, in peace. Kept an eye on Charlton and this forum since a year or two ago because you had similar ownership issues to us. I thought it was complicated at Bolton but I remember reading through the takeover drama and Matt Southall's Land Rover and apartment and all that stuff. Bonkers. Made our drama look boring!
From an outsider looking in, seems like although TS is well-intentioned, he's very out of touch. The Addicks to Victory song in particular was the first thing I saw that made me think he's a fruitloop. Then I saw he made his son your head of analysis? All the BOOM 1-0 on twitter stuff too. Needs to wind his neck in, in my opinion.
Sorry I know you're probably already depressed enough talking amongst yourselves without me chucking my 2 cents in but I hope he has a clearer vision for your future because without a plan or system in place, you're just randomly going through managers and players with no strategy and it takes a big slice of luck for it to all come together and click. Charlton are a big club, shouldn't be anywhere near League 1 like a few clubs in this division.
Not trying to preach or lecture by the way if it's coming across that way, just comparing the situation at my own club to yours. Seems like your owner is far wealthier than ours but everyone can see the vision and plan at our club, not sure same can be said at Charlton. You know Charlton far better than I do though so forgive me if I'm chatting rubbish. Hopefully he learns his lessons and gets you in a better position for next season.
Bolton fan here, in peace. Kept an eye on Charlton and this forum since a year or two ago because you had similar ownership issues to us. I thought it was complicated at Bolton but I remember reading through the takeover drama and Matt Southall's Land Rover and apartment and all that stuff. Bonkers. Made our drama look boring!
From an outsider looking in, seems like although TS is well-intentioned, he's very out of touch. The Addicks to Victory song in particular was the first thing I saw that made me think he's a fruitloop. Then I saw he made his son your head of analysis? All the BOOM 1-0 on twitter stuff too. Needs to wind his neck in, in my opinion.
Sorry I know you're probably already depressed enough talking amongst yourselves without me chucking my 2 cents in but I hope he has a clearer vision for your future because without a plan or system in place, you're just randomly going through managers and players with no strategy and it takes a big slice of luck for it to all come together and click. Charlton are a big club, shouldn't be anywhere near League 1 like a few clubs in this division.
Not trying to preach or lecture by the way if it's coming across that way, just comparing the situation at my own club to yours. Seems like your owner is far wealthier than ours but everyone can see the vision and plan at our club, not sure same can be said at Charlton. You know Charlton far better than I do though so forgive me if I'm chatting rubbish. Hopefully he learns his lessons and gets you in a better position for next season.
I think that’s a very fair analysis. Definitely not chatting rubbish.
Reminded on Facebook that this weekend 14 years ago a gang of us from here went to Blackpool for the weekend as Pardew proclaimed it was a good time to visit Blackpool. The tower was shut and @Gumbo stung me for a cab back to the hotel. Weekend photos are making me crack up right now as @WSS looks about 12 in a thin inadequate jacket.
The football was shite but we did have so much fun. We just got old and can’t mask the shite with a night dancing at flares anymore. There were probably old people at that game declaring it was the worst thing they’d ever seen then.
I’m guessing that the club have never lost five on the bounce in the third division before? If that’s the case then things are historically bad at the moment and there’s a very strong argument that, statistically at least, this is the worst it’s ever been
We're certainly homing in on the 1973/74 season when we lost 19 League games (P46 W19 D8 L19 F66 A73).
We finished 14th in Division 3 with 46 points (equivalent to 65 points these days). We had King Arthur Horsfield banging 'em in and a lad called Hales.
There was no significant run of consecutive defeats though, as we were reasonable at home (W13 D5 L5) and pretty woeful away (W6 D3 L14).
Statistically, I'd argue that our worst season was 1925/26 when we finished 21st out of 22 in the old Third Division South (P42 W11 D13 L18) and had to apply for re-election.
Just to brighten the mood though ... I hadn't fully appreciated how good we were at home in the pre-War years. In the six seasons 1933/34 to 1938/39, we lost a total of nine League games at home (2, 2, 0, 1, 2 and 2). That's nine out of 126 games.
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From an outsider looking in, seems like although TS is well-intentioned, he's very out of touch. The Addicks to Victory song in particular was the first thing I saw that made me think he's a fruitloop. Then I saw he made his son your head of analysis?
All the BOOM 1-0 on twitter stuff too. Needs to wind his neck in, in my opinion.
Sorry I know you're probably already depressed enough talking amongst yourselves without me chucking my 2 cents in but I hope he has a clearer vision for your future because without a plan or system in place, you're just randomly going through managers and players with no strategy and it takes a big slice of luck for it to all come together and click. Charlton are a big club, shouldn't be anywhere near League 1 like a few clubs in this division.
Not trying to preach or lecture by the way if it's coming across that way, just comparing the situation at my own club to yours. Seems like your owner is far wealthier than ours but everyone can see the vision and plan at our club, not sure same can be said at Charlton. You know Charlton far better than I do though so forgive me if I'm chatting rubbish. Hopefully he learns his lessons and gets you in a better position for next season.
We need something to hide behind.
We finished 14th in Division 3 with 46 points (equivalent to 65 points these days). We had King Arthur Horsfield banging 'em in and a lad called Hales.
There was no significant run of consecutive defeats though, as we were reasonable at home (W13 D5 L5) and pretty woeful away (W6 D3 L14).
Statistically, I'd argue that our worst season was 1925/26 when we finished 21st out of 22 in the old Third Division South (P42 W11 D13 L18) and had to apply for re-election.
Just to brighten the mood though ... I hadn't fully appreciated how good we were at home in the pre-War years. In the six seasons 1933/34 to 1938/39, we lost a total of nine League games at home (2, 2, 0, 1, 2 and 2). That's nine out of 126 games.
Then along came Hitler.