Years and years of the same crap I've lost interest in caring as much. Knew the summer activity was nowhere near what was required to be competitive and we lost our 2 best players
Too many to mention,but one that sticks out is a game at the den in our 1st division days when we were 2-0 up and conceded 2 injury time goals to only draw.In all my years of supporting I have never seen Charlton win away at Millwall,this was the closest.
A large group of us are overnighting in Blackpool in Feb (probably over 50 chaps). The plan is to take in the game and celebrate a friends 60th. Getting tickets for the match has become the last thing talked about; and this is from a group that has collectively 100s upon 100s of away games of loyalty. We will all probably end up (maybe) at the game but apathy is at an all time high. At least in the 70s and 80s the players were seen to be trying, and generally won the "bread and butter" games. However, there seems to be no team in existence that this lot aren't capable of losing against.
FFS, are you going as well?
Only joking mate
Yes mate. Lots going. Hope you are bringing your drinking A game?
Too many to mention,but one that sticks out is a game at the den in our 1st division days when we were 2-0 up and conceded 2 injury time goals to only draw.In all my years of supporting I have never seen Charlton win away at Millwall,this was the closest.
Midweek. Stood by the floodlight pylon on away end. We only went two up in the 85minute ffs.
What is sad too is the poor quality of players coming out of the academy into the first team squad for me. Now all League two standard at best. No doubt because it is harder to recruit or keep the better youngsters as a League One Club with constant crises.
What is sad too is the poor quality of players coming out of the academy into the first team squad for me. Now all League two standard at best. No doubt because it is harder to recruit or keep the better youngsters as a League One Club with constant crises.
Think you have to take in to account is the way they are utilised or managed when they get in the team. Clearly we are a mess on the pitch. I’ll use Anderson as an example - he is struggling, we can all see it (apart from Jones it seems) and needs an arm around him and to be taken out of the team. Jones continues to pick him, not a good idea when he has the likes of Docherty and A Campbell stealing a living along side him.
A young player isn’t going to learn anything from being managed by Jones or playing with the absolute dross “senior pros” we have.
Yes 56 years for me and this is the worst football I have seen us play.
The annoying thing is, we have signed some decent players this year in Small, Ramsay and Mitchell. If we had kept cbt, Dobson and May, we'd be quite a decent team. It could get very ugly on Saturday.
55 years of supporting Charlton - this is definitely the lowest point. Actually it's arguably the lowest point in the club's history. Even worse, I really don't have any hope that anything will improve anytime soon, no matter who the manager is. And it could get worse come the end of the season.
There are things in this world that are beyond the understanding of mankind. Things like fate and providence. This club is well and truly cursed.
66 years for me, and any early optimism that Jones was the right managerial appointment has completely evaporated. We are lacking in all departments both on and off the pitch, and I cannot see this changing for the foreseeable future. Quite frankly, I’ve had enough.
I understand where people are coming from, but the low point for me (only going back to the Selhurst era as a fan so missed the chaos before that) was the battle for control at the end of the ESI era when I was checking the Bonkers Shenanigans thread on here a couple of times a day to check we hadn't been liquidated. We very nearly ceased to exist, and one of the people fighting for control seemed to actively want that to happen. No amount of disasters on the pitch will come close to that.
I wasn't there when we left The Valley, I started turning up at Selhurst. I was there at 2-2 Millwall, I was there at 0-1 Bury (Upton Park), I watched the 0-2 Gillingham FA cup in the pub, likewise the 1-0 at Northwich and the Northampton defeat last year, I was at every one of the ten back to back defeats in the early nineties, I don't think anyone has mentioned 0-4 to Liverpool in the Prem, live on TV so the entire world could see just how inept we were.
Last night was worse. Hope has been extinguished. At other times we saw a blip, we knew they had played well two weeks before, we knew there were other players in the squad who could do better. Now, even our "best" players are perfectly capable of giving the ball away in possession, passing to the opposition, passing straight into touch, turning round to pass back when there is daylight to run into and players ahead available or misjudging the flight of the ball when trying to head it. They are all shocking. There are no apparent tactics, there is no plan B.
0-6 would not have been an unfair result.
It's a shambles, a genuine shambles. I have never felt so low about a Charlton squad as I do now.
Definitely when Curbishley failed to get us into the Champions League. Bloody useless.
Agreed. That's when we unanimously decided he had taken us as far as we could go and started singing for Iain Dowie to replace him. Thank God things have improved 😉
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As it stands I couldn’t even contemplate buying a season ticket for next season unless something changes for the better.
Give me that pain over watching Nathan Jones tactical masterclass
The annoying thing is, we have signed some decent players this year in Small, Ramsay and Mitchell. If we had kept cbt, Dobson and May, we'd be quite a decent team. It could get very ugly on Saturday.
There are things in this world that are beyond the understanding of mankind. Things like fate and providence. This club is well and truly cursed.
We are lacking in all departments both on and off the pitch, and I cannot see this changing for the foreseeable future.
Quite frankly, I’ve had enough.
Last night was worse. Hope has been extinguished. At other times we saw a blip, we knew they had played well two weeks before, we knew there were other players in the squad who could do better. Now, even our "best" players are perfectly capable of giving the ball away in possession, passing to the opposition, passing straight into touch, turning round to pass back when there is daylight to run into and players ahead available or misjudging the flight of the ball when trying to head it. They are all shocking. There are no apparent tactics, there is no plan B.
0-6 would not have been an unfair result.
It's a shambles, a genuine shambles. I have never felt so low about a Charlton squad as I do now.