So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
It’s usually the time of year an injury crisis has exposed our lack of depth and there are a lot of games so it makes it even worse
So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
It’s usually the time of year an injury crisis has exposed our lack of depth and there are a lot of games so it makes it even worse
The same applies to other clubs though. We've been competing against the likes of Exeter and Lincoln, not Arsenal and City.
So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
after Stoptober and Movember the players fully embrace 'Can't remember, December' and get on it for a month.
So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
It’s usually the time of year an injury crisis has exposed our lack of depth and there are a lot of games so it makes it even worse
The same applies to other clubs though. We've been competing against the likes of Exeter and Lincoln, not Arsenal and City.
which is why we have been floundering around in this division for years. poor recruitment, poor management and poor owners.
On top of the obvious above we also have a habit of signing players who are either injury prone or soon to become injury prone when they become "charltonised"
Just look at someones bright idea to give Aneke a 3 and a half year contract?! a handful of a player when fit but rarely is fit and who i presume is injured right now.
Pompey 1-2 Charlton, 11/12/2018 Grant & Ajose the scorers
Prior to that MK Dons 0-1 Charlton, 26/12/2016 Lookman
Yeovil 2-3 Charlton, 26/12/2011 Hollands, Kermorgant, Green
Three away wins in December since the Powell era.
I think the problem is that 2011 win was so good it cursed the month for us from then on. I think we were 1-0 then 2-1 down, won in the last minute with Danny Green's first goal for the club and Wednesday conceded two 90th minute goals against Walsall to lose 2-1. Over the course of a few seconds we went from ending the day with a 3 point lead at the top to a 7 point one. It's like the last minute win at Wembley; Charlton joy must draw from somewhere else and one big day out costs us for years down the line. It's just science.
So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
It's not just December though is it.
We are bad. We are absolutely awful in December.
Relegation year after year if we played like it was December all year round!
Cal, you aren't being very positive in this thread. I don't like it one bit 😢
Ha. Funny thing is I don’t really think I’m that positive - people get the wrong impression because I try to widen perspectives after a bad result, rather than jump on the dog-pile with everyone else.
So why are we, as a club, so bad in December? Awful mental health month as it is and it doesn’t help when your football team is rubbish for the duration of it either!
By December out best players are invariably crossing their fingers for a January transfer and trying desperately not to get injured.
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Grant & Ajose the scorers
Prior to that
MK Dons 0-1 Charlton, 26/12/2016
Lookman
Yeovil 2-3 Charlton, 26/12/2011
Hollands, Kermorgant, Green
Three away wins in December since the Powell era.
Because that’s definitely how stats work
It's not just December though is it.
On top of the obvious above we also have a habit of signing players who are either injury prone or soon to become injury prone when they become "charltonised"
Just look at someones bright idea to give Aneke a 3 and a half year contract?! a handful of a player when fit but rarely is fit and who i presume is injured right now.
Just out of interest, have we sacked a manager in every December or January in the the last 10 years? ( I know Bowyer was the exception).
22/23: December (Garner)
21/22: October (Adkins), May (Jackson)
20/21: March (Bowyer resigned)
19/20:
18/19:
17/18: March (Robinson)
16/17: November (Slade)
15/16: October (Luzon), May (Riga)
14/15: January (Peeters)
13/14: March (Powell), May (Riga)
12/13:
11/12:
10/11: January (Parkinson)
Docherty (2), T. Campbell, Leaburn, Hylton
Four away wins in December since the Powell era.
2 out of 3 previous occasions, we got promoted at the end of the season.