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Lap of Honour this year

cabbles
cabbles Posts: 15,256
in General Charlton
How are we feeling about it this year?  On the one hand, the players haven’t been able to do one for the last two seasons given Covid, so it’s a chance for them and us to give each other a send off, but on the other, this season’s been such a let down, I personally won’t be hanging around for it.

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  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    They'll be getting the middle finger and a wave goodbye
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,683
    Lap of Dis Honour more like.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,830
    I’ll stay and clap, I always do. If they’ve any sense they’ll do it at the final whistle like a normal game. If they delay to get their kids, wags, pets etc they’ll be very few of us left. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    ads said:
    They'll be getting the middle finger and a wave goodbye
    Bloody Americanisms it should be two fingers or a hand shandy gesture.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,587
    Think we should all stay but turn our backs on them. 

    Been a shambles of a season, personally think they should scrap the idea and let us get away quickly so we can enjoy our summer.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    Think they should look at the optics and just leave the pitch clapping the fans as they would in any game,  an actual lap of honour is not deserved or justified 
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Jacko speech ?
    (chuckles)
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,885
    It should be seen as an opportunity for the players to thank the fans, not the other way around
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,828
    Hope Sandgaard will serenade us with a self- penned ballad about not giving up and hope for the future as the players express the meaning of the song through the medium of dance and Euell, Jacko, Skiverton and the keeper coach do a barbeshop quartet skit.

    It's the least they can do after this grim season.
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    The only reason I’m going is to boo them off during the lap of dishonour.
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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,971
    The lap of honour should be run by anyone who's suffered a minimum of twenty games - the players can applaud those hardy souls
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,735
    Zero interest in this squad and therefore zero interest in hanging around to massage their egos applauding a lap of 'honour'. I hope the Ipswich match is the last time I have to see the majority of them in a Charlton shirt ever again, the quicker and further they fck off the better.

    Maybe it's because I'm getting older, maybe it's just that this squad is so unlikeable, but this season I've really noticed that I'm finding the hero worship of players just a bit weird. 
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,867
    I'll clap them as I do after every game.  Of course, I want to the team to play well in every game and win every game.  That doesn't happen.

    But they are my team and they are part of my Life and, if they were not there, my Life would be poorer.

    Good or bad, I clap them for that.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,828
    edited April 2022
    Croydon said:
    Zero interest in this squad and therefore zero interest in hanging around to massage their egos applauding a lap of 'honour'. I hope the Ipswich match is the last time I have to see the majority of them in a Charlton shirt ever again, the quicker and further they fck off the better.

    Maybe it's because I'm getting older, maybe it's just that this squad is so unlikeable, but this season I've really noticed that I'm finding the hero worship of players just a bit weird. 

    I've noticed over the past few years our fanbase is very quick to hero worship/ instantly elevate to hero status whether it be managers, players, owners etc. before they have actually proved their worth or done anything of real merit to warrant such plaudits.

    Happened with Southall and Sandgaard and players like Elliot Lee.  I sit near the corner flag where the players warm up and remember when Aiden McGeady warmed up ahead of his first appearance for us and the covered end started chanting "One Aiden McGeady". 

    He looked bemused and laughed and muttered to himself "I haven't done anything yet".

    Think we are very desperate for someone/ people to come in and stop the rot and turn the misfortunes of the past decade plus around that we're very quick to elevate people to some sort of hero status in the hope they will be so.

    I imagine many other clubs do it too.  

    In this scenarios our fanbase reminds me of that poor woman you get in the local who has had a series of wrong un relationships and is therefore overly receptive and welcome of any attention and potential promise of something better and gives herself away to cheaply.  Tragic.

    Need a bit more self respect in this sense and stop the cosy  cosy nature that exists within our club.  Players can come in an earn hero status and plaudits by putting in performances and running through walls in the shirt as the Kinsella's, Hales, Browns, Robinsons and Jacksons and plethora of other heroes over the years have done rather than instant mawkish recognition because of a few platitudes they might pump out on twitter.


  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,354
    They should be clapping us,  and giving a mention to those who have travelled long distances midweek. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,684
    Suggested playlist to accompany them.

    If I could turn back time, Cher
    Sorry seems to be the hardest word, Elton
    Please forgive me, Bryan Adams
    Winner takes it all (losers have to fall) Abba
    Don't look back in Anger, Oasis. 


  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Dobson should just do the lap of honour on his own. The rest can piss off. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    The one vital thing lacking from the vast majority of our players this season is the one thing I expect every player to have, I call it passion, perhaps total commitment is a better term ..  some skills, proper effort, I expect that as a given, those alone are not enough so far as I'm concerned .. without passion there is no honour, so no, no 'lap of honour' will convince me that the majority of our players are totally committed to the CAFC cause
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,907
    i don't think there has been a lack of effort from the players this year i just think that the majority aren't good enough to match expectations - either way, i won't bother staying for a lap of honour   
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,602
    seth plum said:
    There is no honour to lap up.
    I agree with AFKA, if there is the usual fart arseing about with families and stuff that takes ages to get going there will be nobody left. Certainly not me anyway.
    At the final whistle the whole squad should appear with a big thank you sign, applaud the loyal fans, then bugger off and prepare for Ipswich.
    I would rather clap Mick Everett and the departing head groundsman.
    The sign should say sorry.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,280
    Likely to be the last time fans can show their appreciation of Souare and Watson (amongst others), personally I am gutted I cannot make it.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    That’s the valuable drinking time I could be missing out on if they decided to see off this awful season with a walk around the pitch. 

    So for that reason, I’m out. 
  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,525
    As Doucher said above, I haven’t witnessed lack of effort in very many games, we simply have neither had enough quality, nor the right chemistry available to us in too many games, while carrying a few too many players way past their best and some rough injury spells. Add to that a recruitment drive which came way too late into the start of the season… 

    Loads of work to do this summer, no doubt, but IF we are to say goodbye to the likes of Washington, Inniss, Dobson could be a risk if a Championship club came in for him for all we know, they will be seeing me wait behind, clapping and thanking them for their efforts. In a shit season, Stockley is on the cusp of 20 goals too and players like CBT and Lavelle have come from a place of Google searching to part of next season’s building plans. A lot not to like, but some things to applaud and if anybody is seriously thinking on staying to boo or make foul gestures, please go enjoy a pint after the final whistle and save our great club the embarrassment. We are way better than that regardless of inevitable frustrations…


  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,047
    Pavoren007 said:
    As Doucher said above, I haven’t witnessed lack of effort in very many games, we simply have neither had enough quality, nor the right chemistry available to us in too many games, while carrying a few too many players way past their best and some rough injury spells. Add to that a recruitment drive which came way too late into the start of the season… 

    Loads of work to do this summer, no doubt, but IF we are to say goodbye to the likes of Washington, Inniss, Dobson could be a risk if a Championship club came in for him for all we know, they will be seeing me wait behind, clapping and thanking them for their efforts. In a shit season, Stockley is on the cusp of 20 goals too and players like CBT and Lavelle have come from a place of Google searching to part of next season’s building plans. A lot not to like, but some things to applaud and if anybody is seriously thinking on staying to boo or make foul gestures, please go enjoy a pint after the final whistle and save our great club the embarrassment. We are way better than that regardless of inevitable frustrations…


    The fact that the same group of players who managed to string together a really good run when Jackson was caretaker manager and then promptly gave up shortly after he got the job full time suggests to me that a lack of effort is definitely part of the problem 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    I haven't seen them televised or live all season and they have right royally pissed on my chips this season.

    If they have half a conscience instead of a ready propensity to gurn into a camera in training for publishing on soschial meedya, they will slink off back down the tunnel, hand the sacred jersey back and fuck off!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    soapy_jones said:
    I haven't seen them televised or live all season and they have right royally pissed on my chips this season.

    If they have half a conscience instead of a ready propensity to gurn into a camera in training for publishing on soschial meedya, they will slink off back down the tunnel, hand the sacred jersey back and fuck off!
    The players thank you for your loyal support  :)
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,907
    soapy_jones said:
    I haven't seen them televised or live all season and they have right royally pissed on my chips this season.

    If they have half a conscience instead of a ready propensity to gurn into a camera in training for publishing on soschial meedya, they will slink off back down the tunnel, hand the sacred jersey back and fuck off!
    are you in prison? blind or being held hostage? how can u not have seen them play this season?
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,466
    edited April 2022
    If Innis & Chuks manage to get round I'll be amazed!
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,627
    There’s always honour in wearing the Charlton shirt. Certainly these current players are not as good as many that have worn the badge but they’re still Charlton players and I’d give them a round of applause. I support every player wearing the shirt. I’m fairly confident most of you lot would too. 

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