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Low point in supporting Charlton

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
in General Charlton
Think last night was it for me - don't feel like watching Charlton anymore.

Our football is dreadful to watch and we're stuck with an awful manager/squad.

We can't spend money wisely and we're just becoming embarrassing. Still stunned from last night.
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  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,622
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Think last night was it for me - don't feel like watching Charlton anymore.

    Our football is dreadful to watch and we're stuck with an awful manager/squad.

    We can't spend money wisely and we're just becoming embarrassing. Still stunned from last night.
    Most of us have probably been fortunate that last night was the first league game at the Valley for 38 days. A couple of those in quick succession and we could be hitting post back to the Valley gate lows that match the ones we saw in the 1970s
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,859
    edited December 2024
    For many me, the low point supporting Charlton will only ever be 5th October 1985.

    (edited)
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    Back in the 1960s standing on the old huge terrace amongst a 'crowd' of 3,000, THAT was very bad .. a bit like the long term weather, everything comes and goes, sunshine, rain, storms and hurricanes .. I am getting VERY philosophical in my later years  o:)
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    The Northampton home game last season was miles worse than last night.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    SporadicAddick said:
    For many, the low point supporting Charlton will only ever be 5th October 1985.
    Not March 1984 when we went into liquidation? 
  • LittleAddick
    LittleAddick Posts: 635
    Rogue shout, but 2018 Blackpool away, maybe Robinson's last game I think, we had Naby Sarr at left back and genuinely didn't even come close to our own box, let alone score, conceded a last minute winner and barely anyone was bothered given it was what we deserved.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,859
    edited December 2024
    Simonsen said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    For many, the low point supporting Charlton will only ever be 5th October 1985.
    Not March 1984 when we went into liquidation? 
    A fair point, but it was also a great moment as we didn’t actually go into liquidation, and we still had an identity.

    Playing at Selhurst felt like that identity had gone. The campaign over the next few years and the return 7 years later gave us it back.
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,621
    edited December 2024
    1-4 to Bolton (28/9/24) the rain was chucking it down. Was on my own, lost my wallet (with my oyster in it). Had to get an uber home and the driver said 'It was going to get better" (we all know how that turned out).
    I have seen this club loose to Dagenham, Northampton (at the Valley), and even last night, but I have always gone back to that night as being the lowest point.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    For me being one of the 2,083 at Upton Park when we lost 1-0 to Bury in the League Cup in 1992. Cold, miserable, and missed my train home.
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  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,621
    SporadicAddick said:
    Simonsen said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    For many, the low point supporting Charlton will only ever be 5th October 1985.
    Not March 1984 when we went into liquidation? 
    A fair point, but it was also a great moment as we didn’t actually go into liquidation, and we still had an identity.

    Playing at Selhurst felt like that identity had gone. The campaign over the next few years and the return 7 years later gave us it back.
    Thankfully we didn't follow the path the Wombles did.
  • Redvaliant
    Redvaliant Posts: 515
    We've lost at home to Morecambe and Accrington Stanley that felt pretty low to me.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    SporadicAddick said:
    Simonsen said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    For many, the low point supporting Charlton will only ever be 5th October 1985.
    Not March 1984 when we went into liquidation? 
    That was your fault.
    Yeah...soz.

    We had a good time though didn't we.....?
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,354
    Sadly quite a few to choose from. 
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 844
    To be honest I'm 35 soon, I have a family and career. I come Charlton to see friends that I would probably lose contact with if I didn't come.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,859
    JustFloydRoad said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    Simonsen said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    For many, the low point supporting Charlton will only ever be 5th October 1985.
    Not March 1984 when we went into liquidation? 
    A fair point, but it was also a great moment as we didn’t actually go into liquidation, and we still had an identity.

    Playing at Selhurst felt like that identity had gone. The campaign over the next few years and the return 7 years later gave us it back.
    Thankfully we didn't follow the path the Wombles did.
    Underground, overground?
  • Ferryman
    Ferryman Posts: 2,921
    mogodon said:
    For me being one of the 2,083 at Upton Park when we lost 1-0 to Bury in the League Cup in 1992. Cold, miserable, and missed my train home.
    And didn't someone steal the gate takings?
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 914
    Dagenham away when we lost 2-1, never felt so low at a Charlton match.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    come on preston away fa cup round 3 a draw to get excited about 
  • Latimer
    Latimer Posts: 942
    Afternoon Delight said:
    Dagenham away when we lost 2-1, never felt so low at a Charlton match.

    One of my lows too, my 50th birthday and the impact on my mum’s Alzheimer’s hit home as she didn’t know it was 😞 

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  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Stick with it with a stiff upper lip south east London stoicism.

    Good times will return and always darkest before dawn.
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,525
    edited December 2024
    There have been so many. You just become immune to it after a while. The key is to not spend too much of your time feeling depressed about it. There are more important things to worry about - as we have seen from post on CL today. 

    Charlton will always let you down in the long run - it’s  a given. Of course there are times when it’s good - premier league years, winning play off finals, getting promoted  - you have suck the life blood out of those moments as you ain’t getting many.

    I’m celebrating winning corners at the moment. 


  • SouthallAddick
    SouthallAddick Posts: 140
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
    Stick with it with a stiff upper lip south east London stoicism.

    Good times will return and always darkest before dawn.
    I always thought there'd be a point from which the only way was up, but the last few seasons show we can always go lower. But I'll match this admirable optimism and keep the faith.
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,703
    That Dagenham away defeat always sticks in my mind as the lowest low, but I think last night is very close to trumping it. Absolutely dismal, but I feel a lot of us have become desensitised to it all now and just don't have the energy to get angry about it anymore. Will be back for the next home game, got a ticket for Crawley on NYD (revenge!) and thinking about going to PNE as I've never done the ground before. I dunno why we all bother, I guess it's just habit after nearly 40yrs of going! COYA
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    LittleAddick said:
    Rogue shout, but 2018 Blackpool away, maybe Robinson's last game I think, we had Naby Sarr at left back and genuinely didn't even come close to our own box, let alone score, conceded a last minute winner and barely anyone was bothered given it was what we deserved.
    Was that the game it hammered down with rain the whole time? I just remember us losing and the ground being empty because they had a boycott
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    There are many, unfortunately
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,359
    There are just so many, but last night was up there. 

    Flat atmosphere outside the club, empty seats everywhere, outplayed by the seasons relegation favourites (at the start of the season) 
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,794
    100% for me. I’ve never felt so bad about the club. All the promises, all the hype and it’s the same old story. Seriously beginning to lose interest in all things Charlton. Things need to change quickly!
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    This is the lowest point for me.  Anger kept me gong through Duchatelet and his successors. Absence through living further away and disability don’t help, but I am now in danger of not caring. Apathy is more dangerous that and
    ger. 
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    edited December 2024
    Losing 4-0 to millwall and then subsequently seeing them giving it the large one around SE after winning at Wembley in 2010.  That was shite.

    Sheff Wednesday at home first full season after lockdown I was absolutely buzzing to be back after we finished the season strong with Adkins, all the comments about romping the league the next season.  Then we were served up absolute bilge.

    But right now takes some beating, it’s a slow numbing feeling, which is worse because it feels like we’re stuck for the first time in this league forever.  I feel like if we signed 11 wonder kids from the premier league we’d still find a way of finishing 13th.

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