I will add that the next appointment is as everyone has said crucial. I'm sure TS knows this, and I'm also sure he knows what the fanbase doesn't want.
Darren Pratley as player coach and TS even turns you against him
Off topic, but is there a way of making the text look bigger? It looks very small on my iPhone, and nothing I’ve tried makes it any bigger (as the actress said to the cliché).
Off topic, but is there a way of making the text look bigger? It looks very small on my iPhone, and nothing I’ve tried makes it any bigger (as the actress said to the cliché).
Off topic, but is there a way of making the text look bigger? It looks very small on my iPhone, and nothing I’ve tried makes it any bigger (as the actress said to the cliché).
Of this site generally? I just increase the zoom level on my browser, but if you want anything more complicated than that, start a new post in troubleshooting and we'll have a look.
My opinion of my fellow Charlton fans has rarely been lower than it has in the last couple of days. There seems to be a whole industry of people who gained cred and followers opposing Duchatelet, who've had to lie dormant for a while, and who have now sensed the opportunity to doomsay, cavil, insinuate and rabble-rouse. TS hasn't done a single thing to genuinely alarm me yet. Frustrate, perhaps - he's new to this game - but the high-handed demands for us to 'worry about Charlton's future' feel to me like certain people want to be important again
We must get rid of Duchatelet, once and for all. I don't care if we sink further down the leagues. I just want Sandgaard to buy the Valley and training ground. If the recruitment suffers, so be it so. I bloodly hate Duchatelet so much. Lets not turn on Sandgaard, lets give him a chance. Buy the ground please and not players. I am prepared to wait.
My opinion of my fellow Charlton fans has rarely been lower than it has in the last couple of days. There seems to be a whole industry of people who gained cred and followers opposing Duchatelet, who've had to lie dormant for a while, and who have now sensed the opportunity to doomsay, cavil, insinuate and rabble-rouse. TS hasn't done a single thing to genuinely alarm me yet. Frustrate, perhaps - he's new to this game - but the high-handed demands for us to 'worry about Charlton's future' feel to me like certain people want to be important again
Beyond all the odd public comments and talk of pressing/training intensity, it's easy to forget that Jackson was hamstrung by the January Transfer window. None of the permanent signings played more league minutes than the already banished Papa Souare or Ben Watson!
Beyond all the odd public comments and talk of pressing/training intensity, it's easy to forget that Jackson was hamstrung by the January Transfer window. None of the permanent signings played more league minutes than the already banished Papa Souare or Ben Watson!
Quite a good and open interview tbf. answers a lot of questions/ideas that fans have had, as well as one or two of the conspiracy theories I’ve seen on Twitter!!
Biggest concern is when TS talks about how strong the squad is etc. Think we had 4 of the most limited and defensive minded full backs in the football league. Got to accept the recruitment made the squad very imbalanced and left any manager with no chance of getting promoted.
It's not something I think he is capable of doing but he probably needs to just be quiet for a couple of weeks now or at least until he's appointed a new manager. I don't think drip feeding daily explanations, platitudes or excuses is doing anyone any favours and he's at risk of sounding more out of touch and fanciful than he already does.
Time to focus on identifying, interviewing and choosing managerial candidates, nothing else.
Turning up in The Valley car park to throw a few fucks at Southall is one thing. Who on gods Green earth is going to stump up a few hundred quid to protest in Colorado. What a load of over reacting bollix.
No-one. I have lived in the US for 11 years and have barely met a single person who has heard of CAFC, let alone support them, and any Brits paying for flights to Colorado to protest have more money than sense which, based on their plan, might very well be the case.
plus they are all heavily armed over that part, could get messy
Well I wasn't really thinking of going...now I'm definitely staying at home
Sandgaard has had a couple of days to come up with this spin on things. It confirms that he didn't want JJ as has been said and I guess we all should have known that from the nature of the contract and the delay in getting it done. As for the Connor thing.....how would the impression be given that a new manager may not want him unless the possibility of a new manager was inferred during the conversation? Looks like Junior messed up but I can't see him getting into hot water with pater.
More fuel to the 'these players are dickheads' fire to be honest. Some of them have just seen off their third manager and they only had 2 year contracts! Burn them all
“But there are the fans who understand that maybe we could do better in terms of how we show up at games, the formation we play, our flexibility if a game develops differently to what we expected – how quickly can we transform and adjust to those things? Substitutions etc, there are many things that some fans have picked up on that maybe we could do differently.”
Sandgaard 100% correct here. Bolton away was the one time we really mixed it up during a game and it WORKED - they got a sucker-punch winner, sure, but finally we saw some flexibility - and then never again. I know it's the sort of thing you learn to do as a manager, but JJ had been assistant coach for how long?
“But there are the fans who understand that maybe we could do better in terms of how we show up at games, the formation we play, our flexibility if a game develops differently to what we expected – how quickly can we transform and adjust to those things? Substitutions etc, there are many things that some fans have picked up on that maybe we could do differently.”
Sandgaard 100% correct here. Bolton away was the one time we really mixed it up during a game and it WORKED - they got a sucker-punch winner, sure, but finally we saw some flexibility - and then never again. I know it's the sort of thing you learn to do as a manager, but JJ had been assistant coach for how long?
Yeah he's pretty much saying what a large section of the fan base has been saying about Jackson's management for a while.
Puts an end to the conspiracy theorists saying Sandgaard forced JJ to play 3-5-2. And underlines the madness that he spent 80% of a season playing it without having the players for it.
More fuel to the 'these players are dickheads' fire to be honest. Some of them have just seen off their third manager and they only had 2 year contracts! Burn them all
Well we all know who the player is. Most people would put him very near the bottom of the dick head list.
It's not something I think he is capable of doing but he probably needs to just be quiet for a couple of weeks now or at least until he's appointed a new manager. I don't think drip feeding daily explanations, platitudes or excuses is doing anyone any favours and he's at risk of sounding more out of touch and fanciful than he already does.
Time to focus on identifying, interviewing and choosing managerial candidates, nothing else.
This will be one interview that Cawley will make 20 stories out of over the coming days/weeks. It's not TS giving him a bell every day.
Not sure how people are criticising that interview. He hasn't said anything unreasonable, hasn't indicated that he was interfering with team selection, has explained that the "leak" was caused by the player or his agent and said in an ideal world he would have sacked him face to face.
The stirrings of a witch hunt against Sandergaard are embarrassing. Someone compared him to Roland and said he was worse!!!! WTAF? Going to Denver to protest....what are you protesting against? Sacking someone who oversaw some utter dross and who's tactics saw us concede the same goals week after week and most weeks saw a significant percentage of fans bemoaning the crap they were seeing and in my case bored shirtless.
For what it's worth, I think his heart is in the right place, he is what Brits would refer to as a "bit eccentric" and probably arrogant, that is clearly rubbing people up the wrong way.
The accusations of not spending money are ridiculous. An 8m loss last year and another one this year......how is covering that not spending? Fraser and Stockley would not have been cheap either.
I stopped listening to the BBC London thing as it was so one sided it was laughable.
More fuel to the 'these players are dickheads' fire to be honest. Some of them have just seen off their third manager and they only had 2 year contracts! Burn them all
As if it wasn't obvious from what we've seen on the pitch over the past few years, finally some inside confirmation we have toxic dickheads in that changing room and need to clear them out once and for all.
Off topic, but is there a way of making the text look bigger? It looks very small on my iPhone, and nothing I’ve tried makes it any bigger (as the actress said to the cliché).
Of this site generally? I just increase the zoom level on my browser, but if you want anything more complicated than that, start a new post in troubleshooting and we'll have a look.
Can you do that on an iPhone?
Will take a look.
Perhaps I’m having a senior moment. 😩
Update: Wow, thanks @aliwibble that fixed it! I had it set on 85% for some reason.
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answers a lot of questions/ideas that fans have had, as well as one or two of the conspiracy theories I’ve seen on Twitter!!
Time to focus on identifying, interviewing and choosing managerial candidates, nothing else.
As for the Connor thing.....how would the impression be given that a new manager may not want him unless the possibility of a new manager was inferred during the conversation? Looks like Junior messed up but I can't see him getting into hot water with pater.
Sandgaard 100% correct here. Bolton away was the one time we really mixed it up during a game and it WORKED - they got a sucker-punch winner, sure, but finally we saw some flexibility - and then never again. I know it's the sort of thing you learn to do as a manager, but JJ had been assistant coach for how long?
Puts an end to the conspiracy theorists saying Sandgaard forced JJ to play 3-5-2. And underlines the madness that he spent 80% of a season playing it without having the players for it.
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Wow, thanks @aliwibble that fixed it! I had it set on 85% for some reason.