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Video: Chris Powell Speech at PoTY

WSS
WSS Posts: 25,109
edited May 2012 in General Charlton
Came into it a bit late, but here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdlwr13qrDs&feature=youtu.be
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  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,707
    Beautiful.
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,760
    Amazing...
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,265
    were you peering through a gap in the door ???
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,210
    Looks like he was standing by the bar
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,925
    Top class.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,636
    'triffic!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,564
    Just as good second time around!
  • Beckboy
    Beckboy Posts: 1,685
    Thanks for that
  • gilbertfilbert
    gilbertfilbert Posts: 2,285
    Swoon....
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,798
    When I was in the army, he's the sort of guy I'd want leading us. Go through hell and back knowing he's right there beside you. A true leader..................

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,003
    Speaks very well doesn't he. And he clearly gives a lot of thought in advance to what he's going to say.

    Top man.
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,111
    I love the way he calls the players by their nicknames, Waggy and Jacko. I think it shows that they are more than players to him, team spirit all round.
  • CAFCdamo
    CAFCdamo Posts: 1,692
    what happened at 4:30 when everyone started laughing?
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,484
    what happened at 4:30 when everyone started laughing?
    Bloke came out of nowhere with a potted tree and walked through the room. Plonked it down near Powelly.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,394
    If there was ever a manager who was as in touch with the supporters of his club as Chris Powell is, I would be very surprised.

    This man has what it takes and the support behind him to go on and be the most loved character in the history of this club, if he isn't already.

    I could listen to him all night!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,564
    what happened at 4:30 when everyone started laughing?
    Bloke came out of nowhere with a potted tree and walked through the room. Plonked it down near Powelly.
    To be a little more precise it was a potted Rhododendron bush which was to be presented to Chris .................which it later was.
    Not sure exactly who presented it to him and who it was from....I'd had a few too many by then!

  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    I love Curbs...But Sir Chris is triple the manager he was IMO. He is Charlton through and through, we are very lucky to have him and the timing of bringing him in was just the right one.

    No1 has a bad word to say about Powelly (baring end of last season)

    Great speech top bloke.
  • shamkat
    shamkat Posts: 190
    Superb. Thanks WSS.
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,332
    Truely amazing. The man is pure class!! Thanks for posting that!
  • francis4england
    francis4england Posts: 421
    I love Curbs...But Sir Chris is triple the manager he was IMO.

    triple the manager, come on mate, how short is your memory!

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,458
    I love Curbs...But Sir Chris is triple the manager he was IMO.
    Ok, your opinion but hang on.

    Powell has done really well this year after a terrible start. He's a great guy and all that but Curbs did it for 15 years, all at a higher level than league 1.

    I think Powell could emulate what Curbs did and maybe do even more but so far Curbs is still a long way ahead of his son.

  • DiscoCAFC
    DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,767
    Powell is a more likeable guy than Curbs but Powell needs to go a long way to be as successful as Curbs.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,122
    Thanks for posting WSS, great stuff.
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    edited May 2012
    ive had a terrible day and was wondering if powell could pop round to tell me a bed time story tonight about how charlton are gunna get back to back promotions to help me slip off to sleep with a smile on my face!?
  • incorruptible addick
    incorruptible addick Posts: 2,125
    I love Curbs...But Sir Chris is triple the manager he was IMO.
    Ok, your opinion but hang on.

    Powell has done really well this year after a terrible start. He's a great guy and all that but Curbs did it for 15 years, all at a higher level than league 1.

    Yes, sure. But inappropriate place for such an injection of ''rationality''. I was choking up listening to the man. As he says in his speech, let us just enjoy a very special feeling and a wonderful, wonderful moment, as good as almost any I can remember as a Charlton fan. And so much more special coming, as he says, after five or six years of pain.
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 3,006
    Not only a great speaker I feel he really means the words. No BS Top man we are lucky to have him
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,807
    what happened at 4:30 when everyone started laughing?
    Bloke came out of nowhere with a potted tree and walked through the room. Plonked it down near Powelly.
    To be a little more precise it was a potted Rhododendron bush which was to be presented to Chris .................which it later was.
    Not sure exactly who presented it to him and who it was from....I'd had a few too many by then!
    It was a Thank You gift from us, the supporters to our Main Man as a small token of the love & respect we all have for him.

    He initially said he'd put it in his office but when I told him it has to be planted outside, he thought for a few seconds , then said he'd like to put it in the Pierre Bolangi memorial area at Sparrows Lane. What a lovely gesture. The standard rhododendron is called "Red Jack" - the closest I could get to being Charlton related and should have plate sized flowers in a week or so.

    Hope it continues to grow and flourish for many years to come like our beloved Club.

  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,925
    Lovely touch @Fanny, well done.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,003
    Lovely touch @Fanny, well done.
    Steady!
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,798
    Not for a moment taking anything away from Curbs, but dare I say it, I feel more love towards CP than I ever did for Curbs.

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