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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,627
    Leaves with his work in credit but for me it’s not massive credit. Wish him well though. 
  • Marriott110
    Marriott110 Posts: 1,528
    Produced his best work when left alone, the more he had to entertain opinions of hugely underqualified people the quality of signings dipped, wish him all the best going forward
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,911
    golfaddick said:
    Nice bloke but seemed at his best dealing with clubs over loans & fees and not at actually spotting talent.

    Wish him all the best but life moves on.  
    Yes he must have driven a really hard bargain trying to talk Birmingham and Chucks to sign that deal !!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Really lovely man departs, burger boy remains.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    cafc_will said:
    Chris Powell 
    gesundheit!
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,128
    Good luck Geve Stallen…

    please tell us a story about Mowgli
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,875
    Thanks Steve. It does feel like the right time for a fresh start though.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,589
    cafc_will said:
    Chris Powell 
    Ooh, that’s an interesting shout. 
  • Vfrf
    Vfrf Posts: 797
    LargeAddick said:
    cafc_will said:
    Chris Powell 
    Ooh, that’s an interesting shout. 
    For what? DOF?
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,570
    Powell left spurs to manage or coach, can't see him taking up this role

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  • Isawlearyplay
    Isawlearyplay Posts: 273
    Served the club well under difficult circumstances. Highly respected within the game , and his departure if not a surprise might in time be seen as an event to be regretted. 
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Good luck Steve. More than did his bit for us. Last two years not as great but he had to work with the Sandgaards. Disappointing to see Jim Rodwell trying to lay some of the blame for January's  debacle at his door. 

    Worth remembering that Rodwell and Scott came in as Methven's men on six week contracts primarily to oversee the window. They sold Eoghan O'Connell to Wrexham, moved Forster-Caskey on as well as handful of others on loan, to make room for Bonne, Penney, Todd, Kilkenny and unfit Hector. Not a window to boast about.



  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    golfaddick said:
    Nice bloke but seemed at his best dealing with clubs over loans & fees and not at actually spotting talent.

    Wish him all the best but life moves on.  
    With that glowing reference, he'll never work again!
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,468
    As others have said, it's hard to accurately gauge his work without knowing what was going on behind the scenes, and even what exactly his job was--because it seemed to vary year to year. My thinking is that, on balance, he did well. But it's hard not to look at the money spent in the last three seasons and wonder...
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Good luck Steve. More than did his bit for us. Last two years not as great but he had to work with the Sandgaards. Disappointing to see Jim Rodwell trying to lay some of the blame for January's  debacle at his door. 

    Worth remembering that Rodwell and Scott came in as Methven's men on six week contracts primarily to oversee the window. They sold Eoghan O'Connell to Wrexham, moved Forster-Caskey on as well as handful of others on loan, to make room for Bonne, Penney, Todd, Kilkenny and unfit Hector. Not a window to boast about.



    What are you going on about. He worked with Gallen in January and expressed gratitude for his help. No blame attached. You've Just done that in effect.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,466
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Good luck Steve. More than did his bit for us. Last two years not as great but he had to work with the Sandgaards. Disappointing to see Jim Rodwell trying to lay some of the blame for January's  debacle at his door. 

    Worth remembering that Rodwell and Scott came in as Methven's men on six week contracts primarily to oversee the window. They sold Eoghan O'Connell to Wrexham, moved Forster-Caskey on as well as handful of others on loan, to make room for Bonne, Penney, Todd, Kilkenny and unfit Hector. Not a window to boast about.



     I must have missed that??
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,001
    All the best to him. An honourable bloke. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Good luck Steve. More than did his bit for us. Last two years not as great but he had to work with the Sandgaards. Disappointing to see Jim Rodwell trying to lay some of the blame for January's  debacle at his door. 

    Worth remembering that Rodwell and Scott came in as Methven's men on six week contracts primarily to oversee the window. They sold Eoghan O'Connell to Wrexham, moved Forster-Caskey on as well as handful of others on loan, to make room for Bonne, Penney, Todd, Kilkenny and unfit Hector. Not a window to boast about.



    No idea where you've imagined that from.
    He said "he was a great help in the January 2023 window".
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    swordfish said:
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Good luck Steve. More than did his bit for us. Last two years not as great but he had to work with the Sandgaards. Disappointing to see Jim Rodwell trying to lay some of the blame for January's  debacle at his door. 

    Worth remembering that Rodwell and Scott came in as Methven's men on six week contracts primarily to oversee the window. They sold Eoghan O'Connell to Wrexham, moved Forster-Caskey on as well as handful of others on loan, to make room for Bonne, Penney, Todd, Kilkenny and unfit Hector. Not a window to boast about.



    What are you going on about. He worked with Gallen in January and expressed gratitude for his help. No blame attached. You've Just done that in effect.
    Damned with feint praise. 

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  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Cardinal Sin said:
    swordfish said:
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Good luck Steve. More than did his bit for us. Last two years not as great but he had to work with the Sandgaards. Disappointing to see Jim Rodwell trying to lay some of the blame for January's  debacle at his door. 

    Worth remembering that Rodwell and Scott came in as Methven's men on six week contracts primarily to oversee the window. They sold Eoghan O'Connell to Wrexham, moved Forster-Caskey on as well as handful of others on loan, to make room for Bonne, Penney, Todd, Kilkenny and unfit Hector. Not a window to boast about.



    What are you going on about. He worked with Gallen in January and expressed gratitude for his help. No blame attached. You've Just done that in effect.
    Damned with feint praise. 
    In your eyes only. 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    edited August 2023
    Have a rest up Steve and I am sure you will move onwards and upwards.  Those nights of waking up in a cold sweat after another nightmare with the soundtrack "Addicks to mediocrity", are over!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,013
    Seemed like a good bloke … all the best to him
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    Always in credit for that 2019 team. 
  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,336
    Didn't he apply for the QPR DOF role ? I take it he didn't get it
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Under the very skinny model of the end of Duchatelet era Gallen's role appeared to be huge.  Bowyer appeared to be the main, decisive element in pushing for Taylor.  Signing Cullen, Bielik, Taylor, Williams, Purrington and Pratley that season was an outstanding return.  Then over the next two seasons keeping us competitive was a supreme effort.

    We may have been below par the last two seasons, but probably weren't anywhere near the budget of the big teams in L1.  What Bowyer and Gallen did - no doubt with others' inputs - deserves to be not far behind Lawrence and Curbishley's achievements in their early years:  Not as good but the 18/19 team was an absolute joy to watch, especially compared to how atrocious Robinson's Barca ball entertained.

    Thank you Steve for your sheer huge effort and work to improve Charlton.
  • Bostonaddick
    Bostonaddick Posts: 819
    If we are completely honest,  he has had one good window.  Significantly more misses than solid pickups over his tenure.  That is not completely his fault given our ownership and budgetary issues but he was the driving force behind getting Kirk and the ones he brought in on frees and on loan generally have not been good.  I think he is good at the contractual/negotiating loans portion of the business,  I just don’t think he is the best talent evaluator.   He has been extremely loyal and a steward of the club during his time here so he should be thanked but not overly bothered that he is leaving.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    edited August 2023
    LoOkOuT said:
    Imagine being recognised for doing great at your job as a negotiator on behalf of a club that you happen to have grown fond of, despite working in less than ideal conditions for an egotistical, no-nothing-owner, and then, in hard times and through no fault of your own, you get brought in to also support identifying players, on top of your role in negotiating transfers, as part of a tragically inept committee run by the next equally inept, no-nothing-owner, largely because there’s no one else that knows anything about what their doing beyond the parade of desperate managers, and are then slated for it when it all goes tits up because that egotistical and inept boss and his nepo-baby son dream up a doomed-from-the-start-setup run off a mysterious, homebrew black box that ends up identifying only previous players and the chronically injured, or both! And round and round we go.
    Blimey, that's a long one, Lookie ! 

    Has anyone ever told you before ? 

    ( Sentence, of course !  :)
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,079
    edited August 2023
    ColinTat said:
    Under the very skinny model of the end of Duchatelet era Gallen's role appeared to be huge.  Bowyer appeared to be the main, decisive element in pushing for Taylor.  Signing Cullen, Bielik, Taylor, Williams, Purrington and Pratley that season was an outstanding return.  Then over the next two seasons keeping us competitive was a supreme effort.

    We may have been below par the last two seasons, but probably weren't anywhere near the budget of the big teams in L1.  What Bowyer and Gallen did - no doubt with others' inputs - deserves to be not far behind Lawrence and Curbishley's achievements in their early years:  Not as good but the 18/19 team was an absolute joy to watch, especially compared to how atrocious Robinson's Barca ball entertained.

    Thank you Steve for your sheer huge effort and work to improve Charlton.
    Lennie and Curbs are miles ahead of what Bowyer and Gallen did.  No comparison I'm afraid.

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