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Survival or Winning FA Cup?

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  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,878
    Davo55 said:

    What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.

    Should have told Roland that a month ago...
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,381
    To win the cup is once every 60 year thing for us so its a no brainer for me
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Davo55 said:

    What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.

    No way. Has to be Cup . A Cup win you cant erase - a relegation you can reverse in a season.
  • Slartibartfast
    Slartibartfast Posts: 1,127
    Cup
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,056
    edited February 2014
    Davo55 said:

    What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.

    Your looking at Relegation completely the same way as when we went down straight away last time though.

    When we were last relegated from the Premiership we'd pretty much lost our best players anyway and we had a bunch of loanees... the next two seasons we spent in League One were on a shoe string budget bringing in Pawel Abbot and in the second year the likes of Bally Smart on a Non-League Non-Contract type basis

    This time round we've been backed by a guy who is worth $400m... So we'll be able to rebuild (and should we keep Powell we'll have a Manager who'll know the League and will know how to build a Squad to win it

    In Reza we've a Striker who will be at the World Cup and is under Contract who has spent the last couple of years at various Roland clubs so wont be allowed to leave easily, we've also Piotr Pan who could find his feet at L1 for us as he wont go anyway as before signing he'd have seen we're in danger of going down so he wouldnt have signed if he didnt want to play in L1 in the first place

    Plus we've the Championship experience of Cousins / Poyet and Lennon just to name a few youngsters to build the Squad around already... Again Roland wont want them to go because he'll want to be in a higher league to get maximum profit out of them
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,479
    F.A Cup all day long, a once in a life time opportunity. I'd take three more years in league one if I was able to say I saw my team lift that trophy at Wembley, it's not like we'd do it any time soon after.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    Davo55 said:

    What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.

    Sooner or later Charlton will be relegated to the third tier. It might not be this year (although there's a good chance), it might not be next year, it might not be for a dozen years or more, but one day it will happen. Charlton have won the cup once in a 108 year history; the way that football has developed in the 67 years since we have won, means that the chances are slimmer than ever.

    Now, of course, I don't think we will win. I'd be highly surprised if we made the semis, let alone the final. But to be in round five and know that we won't have to play top flight opposition in our next two games, means that we've got a better chance of getting there than we have for decades. In the wild and whacky world of forced-choice hypothetical alternatives, that one shot at the cup is far far more important than remaining in a league we will surely drop from at some stage or another.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,749
    Cup
  • bc_addick
    bc_addick Posts: 761
    Davo55 said:

    What are you all on??!! Staying up is the only thing that matters this season. With survival comes a major re-build in the summer and the chance to be challenging at the top end of the league for a change. Go down and we lose a couple of our best players, fail to attract higher quality and potentially get stuck in L1 for another 3 seasons or more.

    I sure everyone will love telling their grandkids how we avoided relegation in the years to come. My Dad told his kids and his and grand kids about Charlton winning the FA Cup.


  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Our odds have dropped from 300-1 to 150-1................wonder which lifers have been ploughing in?

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  • LonelyNorthernAddick
    LonelyNorthernAddick Posts: 2,424
    Think I would have to choose FA cup. Something you'd never forget.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Sheff U 1 Forest 1
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,445
    Absolutely no contest, win the FA Cup.
    As a fan we all want to see us win something, the board may think something else.
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,757
    Have been Dreaming of winning the cup or at least getting to a final since the 50's.

    Has to be the CUP.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,714
    Cup.
    Plus if we did win, there's more incentive for Roland to push top players our way from his other clubs for the distraction of a European campaign.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Fa cup all day long its all pie in the sky right now but we have had a great set of winnable fixtures

    We can beat weds
    We can beat utd
    We can beat forest

    And then a semi against anyone at wembley I watched wigan beat man citeh there last year its do able

    I am not getting carried away with it take each fixture as they come and see where it takes us
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,445
    nth london addick said:

    Fa cup all day long its all pie in the sky right now but we have had a great set of winnable fixtures

    We can beat weds
    We can beat utd
    We can beat forest

    And then a semi against anyone at wembley I watched wigan beat man citeh there last year its do able

    I am not getting carried away with it take each fixture as they come and see where it takes us

    We can't beat an egg at the moment
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Blades 3 Forest 1
  • 93Addick
    93Addick Posts: 139
    FA Cup no doubt
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,015
    fa cup.we will [one day ]get promotion back to championship.may never win fa cup again

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  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    FA Cup any day. Bring the magic back.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    All the games are wins with no draws - def means we will be live on TV for Wendy game.
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,836
    On the beer again today
    Survival
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The_President said:

    All the games are wins with no draws - def means we will be live on TV for Wendy game.

    ...except Brighton are yet to play Hull

  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,512
    Survival is more likely, but if it were a straight choice I would pick cup glory.
  • MountsfieldPark
    MountsfieldPark Posts: 2,074
    Cup. A trip to Wembley would be a special experience for the fans and a feather in the cap of SCP (assuming he's still around and whatever else may happen afterwards). We could hardly have wished for an easier route from 3rd round to the semis.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,228
    Cup ...absolutely no doubt at all
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,184
    FA Cup - we'll be able to live off it for at least three generations.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,799
    I'll go for league, but get to cup final against Man City, which will give us Euro football next season.............
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 12,032
    I'm not so sure about this. Winning the cup would be nice. A trip to Wembley, the exposure and glamour. Europa cup next year. But, being consigned to being in L1 again that would soon wear off. If there was a guarantee that it would only be for one season and we would come back stronger then of course I'd go for it. But, without a crystal ball I would say survival is more important and that is what I would prefer if it came down to a straight choice.

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