Winning and losing games is part of football. And today’s opposition played well, deserved the win.
But today felt different to the embarrassing defeats of recent weeks against Cheltenham or Port Vale.
Perhaps I’m just numb to the embarrassing results but today felt like a depressing reality check. A slap in the face. Today we played a club that is well run, from top to bottom, and it was harder to watch everything unfold because you can’t help but wonder why can’t that be us? What did we do to deserve the shit that we’ve dealt with the past 15 years?
We played a club today that three or four years ago almost went bust. They had to play a full season in this league with a points deduction and an U23 squad because they couldn’t make signings.
They got relegated and spent a full season down in League Two. They sat 19th in the fourth tier after 10 games that season. They were staring at non-league.
But somehow, like Coventry before them, like Wigan since, they’re out the other side.
Why are we having to deal with shit owner after shit owner while other clubs get stood up properly with competent people in charge? It’s demoralising.
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Have the organised staff in the background, get the right individuals signed up on the pitch, doesnt matter if they're frees | loans | transfers... doesnt matter
Of course you also need to find a decent Manager... Ian Evatt has definitely done well for himself in his short reign in Football Management - We may have found one of those building blocks in Dean Holden... But why, why do I expect him to leave in the summer because of ineptness in the background!!
We spend fuck all, half a squad rebuild every summer, a bunch of average players, a few loans and we float around mid-table.
I genuinely believe that with our academy it wouldn't even take a lot to get us on an upward trajectory if we had the right people in charge with a decent recruitment plan.
it truly is the worst footballing period in our history and on the back of Curbs and Lennie glory years .
still no need to whine when next season we’re gonna be in our 10th season in 15 in the third tier
palace will be entering their 11th on the spin in the Premiership
and the scum will be in their 12th in 14 in the championship.
Sliding Doors moment - Farnell & Elliott take over in Aug 2020 & we go into Administration shortly afterwards. By 2023 we are in the Championship after being bought for peanuts by Barclay who then employs Peter Varney as CEO.
it’s (mostly) not Sandgaard’s fault as the majority of the damage predates him but the heart has been ripped out of the club.
He made a statement when he brought the club "....just need to tweak a few dials... will blow the league out of the water...."
Yeah great,put you have to INVEST, in both players and staff, not sack the people who were the beating heart of the club.
We are now facing another "investment" from who knows who and perhaps another change of direction.
I am not depressed, just fed up with the way the club has been run the last 10 seasons
Do you mean the 3 games in a row we won, today's game or the off field dodgy infrastructure we have ?
It's like a emotional seesaw with Charlton critics, it never in the middle, just rock bottom with worse team ever, or win 3 games and we go too high and are reaching the playoffs. Lose to a cracking team like Bolton and our fans dreams crash down to terra Firma.
Pay attention and realize we are a mid table team.
IF we can have stability with Dean Holden in charge and we don't cash in this window to raise a few million on Leaburn, Ness and Dobson then we can finish top half. Plus moving on two high wages (if poss) who didn't make the squad today.
I expect it from professional negative critics like Golfie and Oohaahmortimer, but disappointing from Callum.
You would need your head up your own arse
We really don't need more threads like this it only feeds the negativity that is so prevalent.
Constructive criticism welcomed, but why moan on a loop.
Will probably book Derby tickets tomorrow…