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I am going to say it!! Yes I am, Nathan Jones......................

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  • altrinchamaddick
    altrinchamaddick Posts: 956
    This was a wonderful interview
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 812
    altrinchamaddick said:
    This was a wonderful interview
    He has really bought into the club as a whole, not just the football side of it. Don't see him going anywhere else anytime soon.
    Charlotte is a credit to the club too.
    Heard Scott Minto waxing lyrical about us on Talksport the other night.
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,126
    wow - Nj has got it and i am 100% behind him - he's a terrific bloke 
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 812
    holyjo said:

    I was about to post that - debate over 

    I think he gets it. He really does. For me that matters almost as much as winning games.

    I have supported Charlton since 82. There have been teams I have loved and teams I have endured. Managers I have respected and loved (LL, AC, SCP, JJ) and others who set off the gag reflex. One thing that really matters to me is whether the manager understands who we are as a club. Our values. What is important to us.

    There are plenty in football who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. I think Nathan Jones understands the value of Charlton. Our history. Our people. What this club means.

    Okay, so he may be a bit bonkers. I like characters. It is easy to drift through life trying to fit in with the monoculture around you. When I look around football these days, it is full of bald men with beards who dress like Pep, wear chunky trainers with big soles and try to look cool.

    Maybe having an idiosyncratic manager who is deeply committed to his faith and his values and who is slightly bonkers is actually a good thing. I like to think we are a bit different as a football club. I know everyone says that, but I genuinely believe we can lay that claim.

    There is no other club I can think of that has formed a political party and got 15000 votes in a council election. Our history is a fan base who fought to the end to protect the identity of our club by keeping our home. In the last 40 years that has shaped who we are. I think Nathan reflects that.

    It has been a torrid ten years. Whatever else has happened he has brought back hope and pride in this football club. I for one am very glad about that

    Couldn't have put it any better 👌
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,965
    Yeh great interview 
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,760
    He gets it - he understands us - I think he has fallen for us in truth. 
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 6,011
    Wow what an interview! 

    For me it’s just another sign that we are getting our club back. The work the club does  off the pitch is so so important and for the manager to recognise that and buy into it counts for so much 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    altrinchamaddick said:
    https://youtu.be/AaYtr8tggz0
    Was that Sir Michael Grade (about one minute in). Haven't seen him in ages. If it was, it's good to know he's still involved.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 12,980
    Stig said:
    altrinchamaddick said:
    https://youtu.be/AaYtr8tggz0
    Was that Sir Michael Grade (about one minute in). Haven't seen him in ages. If it was, it's good to know he's still involved.
    Pretty sure he hosted the event 

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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,422
    CaptainRobbo said:
    altrinchamaddick said:
    This was a wonderful interview
    He has really bought into the club as a whole, not just the football side of it. Don't see him going anywhere else anytime soon.
    Charlotte is a credit to the club too.
    Heard Scott Minto waxing lyrical about us on Talksport the other night.

    Minto is a Charlton man, and a thoroughly nice bloke as well.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,422
    holyjo said:

    I was about to post that - debate over 

    I think he gets it. He really does. For me that matters almost as much as winning games.

    I have supported Charlton since 82. There have been teams I have loved and teams I have endured. Managers I have respected and loved (LL, AC, SCP, JJ) and others who set off the gag reflex. One thing that really matters to me is whether the manager understands who we are as a club. Our values. What is important to us.

    There are plenty in football who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. I think Nathan Jones understands the value of Charlton. Our history. Our people. What this club means.

    Okay, so he may be a bit bonkers. I like characters. It is easy to drift through life trying to fit in with the monoculture around you. When I look around football these days, it is full of bald men with beards who dress like Pep, wear chunky trainers with big soles and try to look cool.

    Maybe having an idiosyncratic manager who is deeply committed to his faith and his values and who is slightly bonkers is actually a good thing. I like to think we are a bit different as a football club. I know everyone says that, but I genuinely believe we can lay that claim.

    There is no other club I can think of that has formed a political party and got 15000 votes in a council election. Our history is a fan base who fought to the end to protect the identity of our club by keeping our home. In the last 40 years that has shaped who we are. I think Nathan reflects that.

    It has been a torrid ten years. Whatever else has happened he has brought back hope and pride in this football club. I for one am very glad about that


    You'd not like @blackpool72 then :D
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,929
    Superb interview. You can see how engaged and engaging Nathan is .Intelligent, articulate enthusiastic and the ability to lead.We are very fortunate to have him.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,882
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    holyjo said:

    I was about to post that - debate over 

    I think he gets it. He really does. For me that matters almost as much as winning games.

    I have supported Charlton since 82. There have been teams I have loved and teams I have endured. Managers I have respected and loved (LL, AC, SCP, JJ) and others who set off the gag reflex. One thing that really matters to me is whether the manager understands who we are as a club. Our values. What is important to us.

    There are plenty in football who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. I think Nathan Jones understands the value of Charlton. Our history. Our people. What this club means.

    Okay, so he may be a bit bonkers. I like characters. It is easy to drift through life trying to fit in with the monoculture around you. When I look around football these days, it is full of bald men with beards who dress like Pep, wear chunky trainers with big soles and try to look cool.

    Maybe having an idiosyncratic manager who is deeply committed to his faith and his values and who is slightly bonkers is actually a good thing. I like to think we are a bit different as a football club. I know everyone says that, but I genuinely believe we can lay that claim.

    There is no other club I can think of that has formed a political party and got 15000 votes in a council election. Our history is a fan base who fought to the end to protect the identity of our club by keeping our home. In the last 40 years that has shaped who we are. I think Nathan reflects that.

    It has been a torrid ten years. Whatever else has happened he has brought back hope and pride in this football club. I for one am very glad about that


    You'd not like @blackpool72 then :D
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    holyjo said:

    I was about to post that - debate over 

    I think he gets it. He really does. For me that matters almost as much as winning games.

    I have supported Charlton since 82. There have been teams I have loved and teams I have endured. Managers I have respected and loved (LL, AC, SCP, JJ) and others who set off the gag reflex. One thing that really matters to me is whether the manager understands who we are as a club. Our values. What is important to us.

    There are plenty in football who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. I think Nathan Jones understands the value of Charlton. Our history. Our people. What this club means.

    Okay, so he may be a bit bonkers. I like characters. It is easy to drift through life trying to fit in with the monoculture around you. When I look around football these days, it is full of bald men with beards who dress like Pep, wear chunky trainers with big soles and try to look cool.

    Maybe having an idiosyncratic manager who is deeply committed to his faith and his values and who is slightly bonkers is actually a good thing. I like to think we are a bit different as a football club. I know everyone says that, but I genuinely believe we can lay that claim.

    There is no other club I can think of that has formed a political party and got 15000 votes in a council election. Our history is a fan base who fought to the end to protect the identity of our club by keeping our home. In the last 40 years that has shaped who we are. I think Nathan reflects that.

    It has been a torrid ten years. Whatever else has happened he has brought back hope and pride in this football club. I for one am very glad about that


    You'd not like @blackpool72 then :D
    Oi
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 12,980
    Onel Hernandez is very complimentary of NJ in Cawley's latest (free) Substack piece, this is just a little bit of what he said

    Hernandez is an admirer of the way that Jones goes about his business.

    “Everybody probably now thinks ‘wow, Charlton have had an amazing start’. No, that’s what Nathan Jones brings in and what the players take from him. If you do your basics and work hard, to just develop a bit, this is the result of it.

    “We have to look after ourselves and the results come from that.

    “A lot of teams in the league try to play that beautiful football. It’s not what sometimes brings you points. You can have the best players and play amazing football - try to build from the back - but that can be very complicated.

    “Some teams can wait for those moments. Nathan Jones has found the mix of how to manage those situations. We are quite direct. We can also keep the ball. Football sometimes is very simple.”


    https://www.southlondonsportcharltonathleticedition.com/p/onel-hernandez-on-that-reaction-to?r=1uqqd2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,872
    edited November 22
    What I was glad to see/hear today (as oppose to last year) it was nice to see/hear the Covered End singing "Nathan Jones Red and White Army" even being 5-1 down.

    Never the less today has to be documented:

  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,278
    No plan B.


  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,454
    edited November 22
    golfaddick said:
    No plan B.


    Good. Because, under plan A (Nathan Jones) we've made monumental leaps forward in a very short space of time. 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,780
    Today was a really bad result, but Jones is in more than enough credit at this point to be allowed that. 

    If he keeps us up he’s done his job in my book.
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 402
    golfaddick said:
    No plan B.


    Are we looking for a new manager now?? Come on one bad performance.

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  • Diebythesword
    Diebythesword Posts: 464
    Clearly got it wrong today, compounded by some terrible performances. Oh well, we go again, first time we’ve popped out of the top half in quite some time. 
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,872
    edited November 22
    golfaddick said:
    No plan B.



    With (our judgement) of this ownership Nathan Jones is their Plan B (just remember that) 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,284
    edited November 22
    golfaddick said:
    No plan B.


    Why would you waste precious training time on a plan you might not even need when that time could be better spent making plan A more effective?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,278
    Callumcafc said:
    golfaddick said:
    No plan B.


    Why would you waste precious training time on a plan you might not even need when that time could be better spent making plan A more effective?
    Because if you dont have back up plan when you have injuries then you get what you saw out there today. And if you go into the next 2 matches playing the same players in the same way you wont get anything different. 

    Ask yourself why Russell Martin keeps getting sacked. Its because he doesn't have a plan B and his teams leak goals trying to play out from the back.  
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 953
    golfaddick said:
    No plan B.


    Such an utterly bizarre take on things, No plan B? Except when he changed things to a back 4 to shore up our structure or in the second half when we went to a back 3 again? What possible masterclass in tactical change was Nathan Jones supposed to do with no defenders on the bench?
  • MrBurns
    MrBurns Posts: 1,369
    It's ridiculous to question Jones after one bad performance. The goal this season is to stay up and that hasn't changed. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,612
    Obviously in massive credit and any talk of sacking is ridiculous, but he did make some mistakes on Saturday with our set-up. 

    Hopefully he learns for Tuesday. 
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,014
    Sheepie1985 said:
    I must say I was very pissed off yesterday when a fan sitting next to me said the words that NJ should be sacked. Seriously why does some of our fan base turn the second something goes wrong?
    They should have tbeir season ticket revoked.I reckon in 2007 their were about 200 out of 27000
    that wanted curbs gone .look where that got us
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 402
    MrBurns said:
    It's ridiculous to question Jones after one bad performance. The goal this season is to stay up and that hasn't changed. 
    We have a good manager, good owners that seem to give a shit running the club well and we still have fans that almost won’t accept it. We do have some knee jerk fans.

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