Powell Sacked - CONFIRMED
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out of interest what did you do in the Selhurst years? Upton Park? Is this situation now worse than those times?Henske said:This morning I stopped my Valley Gold membership standing order. My seat in the Lower West stand will be empty for the rest of the season and I won't be renewing my season ticket.
I first went to the Valley in the sixties. My mum and dad were supporters and my Gran lived round the corner in Inverine Road. I've been a supporter ever since. Until yesterday.
Sir Chris was treated disgracefully by the club owner and that mistreatment will for me stain any future success the club may have. Even if the club avoids relegation this season and gains future promotion it will be on the back of the shameful treatment of an honest, passionate, dedicated
Charlton legend who epitomised for me what has made Charlton FC special.
I no longer want to be associated with a Club that believes it can treat its staff and supporters this way. No matter what plans the owner may have for the Club they are meaningless for me as he has severed the connection that has existed between me and the club since I first visited. I remember thinking that first day as a kid " yes the this Valley is for me!'
Since yesterday it no longer is.
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I agree Chris Powell seems a gentleman but just like Hoddle at Spurs and other famous players returning to their club as a Manager - CP fell way short and I'm pleased I won't have to endure he's crap brand of football again at our great club. Let's not forget he was given the job when he was a second assistant and a rookie at that. That was brave and he was then given Wright-Philips the top scorer in league one. Since then he's been backed and when bids for Solly, Wiggo, Kermo and Stephens were turned down until RD took over. Powells tactics and subs along with the players he signed have gone from bad to worse. He isn't good enough at this level, that is obvious to see. Hes league 1-2 and that's where he will end up or back as an assistant to someone like Nigel Pearson. Nice bloke don't get me wrong but very drab and dreary and his team resemble him. No passion or emotion from him on the touch line, btw some horrendous signings from him also - Green, Evina, Church, Sordell, Pritchard? These players anyone can see are not good enough and Powell kept picking them having signed them! He also bought in two inexperienced assistants in Dyer and Matthews. What type of football coaching do these guys teach the players?? Jobs for the boys in my view and then Jason Euall also who Powell gave a contract too when I could run more than him and I am 63 and then he got a job at the club. Powell was all about looking after his mates and being nice to a bunch of players that the majority of needed clearing out. I don't go on here much but I look at it every day. Sometimes things just have to be said.3
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ask Stuart Pearce to name one of our players and he'd struggle. These 'pundit's' are jumping on the bandwagon but really know bugger all about us.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
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I was disappointed SCP was sacked and feel the timing is wrong.I agree with TMA that RD should have done this earlier,doing it now makes little sense.
I do feel that if we had lost under Chris's leadership tonight and then again against the Spanners on Saturday then possibly even I would have reluctantly accepted it was time.
That said we need to get behind the team now.The king is dead,long live the king.0 -
AgreedLargeAddick said:
ask Stuart Pearce to name one of our players and he'd struggle. These 'pundit's' are jumping on the bandwagon but really know bugger all about us.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
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That doesn't make sense though does it?LargeAddick said:
ask Stuart Pearce to name one of our players and he'd struggle. These 'pundit's' are jumping on the bandwagon but really know bugger all about us.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
If they knew "bugger all" they wouldn't give a shit. They'd simply see the manager of a relegation threatened team at the bottom of the second tier sacked after some awful results.
They would hardly be rushing to get their pens out for that story would they?0 -
How about Marvin Sordell and Chris Solly - both players he shortlisted (and in Sordell's case called up) to play for his team in the Olympic Games.LargeAddick said:
ask Stuart Pearce to name one of our players and he'd struggle. These 'pundit's' are jumping on the bandwagon but really know bugger all about us.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
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Eh, most of them are just rent-a-quote 'experts' - all they really know about the situation is Powell is gone, the now-standard 'feeder club' line, and that's about it. Wouldn't really say they do give a shit frankly, they'll have forgotten it by tomorrow.LuckyReds said:
That doesn't make sense though does it?LargeAddick said:
ask Stuart Pearce to name one of our players and he'd struggle. These 'pundit's' are jumping on the bandwagon but really know bugger all about us.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
If they knew "bugger all" they wouldn't give a shit. They'd simply see the manager of a relegation threatened team at the bottom of the second tier sacked after some awful results.
They would hardly be rushing to get their pens out for that story would they?0 -
What so many people seem to overlook is that a football club is so much more than what happens on the pitch. There is a Charlton way of doing things. We are not unique in that matter. Every club has its own way of doing things. It's part of that club's culture, history and tradition and you mess with it at your peril. What has happened in the last 72 hours has been very much against our culture and what we, the fans', stand for and represent. Those that just say 'we were bottom of the table, he had to go' are missing the bigger picture. Our very essence is being forcibly changed before our eyes.6
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Ask Stuart Pearce his own name and he'd struggle!LargeAddick said:
ask Stuart Pearce to name one of our players and he'd struggle. These 'pundit's' are jumping on the bandwagon but really know bugger all about us.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
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The fact is, I doubt many players playing at Championship level would see moving to Belgium as a step up. More likely players playing in Belgium will be more interested in coming here as it is a shop window to a much bigger league. A flaw in RDs plan that does at least make me smile!
Although he may have the last laugh as League One may be a different kettle of fish!0 -
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His football and tactics had become stale this season, but he was hamstrung by events off the pitch. We played a very efficient, decent style of football the season we won league one, followed up by a very respectful finish last season. When he had the players at his disposal, he delivered. The problem this season is that investment in the team has been minimal. Losing quality players like Fuller, only being able to replace them with rubbish like Church meant we were always going to struggle. You may say he chose to bring in Gower, Sordell, Church etc, but it was either that or no one, go into the season with Kermorgant and Piggott as the only recognised strikers. At the back end of last season, most of us would've thought we have the platform to build, but the investment wasn't forthcoming. The team that won league 1 were still the majority of the starting line up. Add to that that some of the more influential players we had in that league one winning season aren't performing any near the levels they were, or as consistently (Jackson for one), we were always going to struggle. To call his brand of football boring and crap is wrong. This season it has become stale, and I do believe he had run out of ideas, and don't think he had it in him to get us out the relegation zone. However, you write that post without taking into account the wider problems at the club and the excellent job he did in the 2 years previous. I still believe he has a lot to offer football as a manager, and the emotional drain he has had to endure over the last 12 months has impacted to an extent where this scenario was all but enviable. I am glad he is free of it now and hope he can recharge and come back stronger, where I have every faith he will prove you wrong.cochran45 said:I agree Chris Powell seems a gentleman but just like Hoddle at Spurs and other famous players returning to their club as a Manager - CP fell way short and I'm pleased I won't have to endure he's crap brand of football again at our great club. Let's not forget he was given the job when he was a second assistant and a rookie at that. That was brave and he was then given Wright-Philips the top scorer in league one. Since then he's been backed and when bids for Solly, Wiggo, Kermo and Stephens were turned down until RD took over. Powells tactics and subs along with the players he signed have gone from bad to worse. He isn't good enough at this level, that is obvious to see. Hes league 1-2 and that's where he will end up or back as an assistant to someone like Nigel Pearson. Nice bloke don't get me wrong but very drab and dreary and his team resemble him. No passion or emotion from him on the touch line, btw some horrendous signings from him also - Green, Evina, Church, Sordell, Pritchard? These players anyone can see are not good enough and Powell kept picking them having signed them! He also bought in two inexperienced assistants in Dyer and Matthews. What type of football coaching do these guys teach the players?? Jobs for the boys in my view and then Jason Euall also who Powell gave a contract too when I could run more than him and I am 63 and then he got a job at the club. Powell was all about looking after his mates and being nice to a bunch of players that the majority of needed clearing out. I don't go on here much but I look at it every day. Sometimes things just have to be said.
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You say it's a flaw, I think you may be underestimating him. If he can pitch it to players as a stepping stone, as you point out it can be, then we may well see a better quality of player than simple dregs and has beens with no desire to prove themselves. Don't know if that is intentional but would not rule it out entirely either.MuttleyCAFC said:The fact is, I doubt many players playing at Championship level would see moving to Belgium as a step up. More likely players playing in Belgium will be more interested in coming here as it is a shop window to a much bigger league. A flaw in RDs plan that does at least make me smile!
Although he may have the last laugh as League One may be a different kettle of fish!0 -
But this debate can go round in circles. Powell did the best he could do with what he had. No money and no support from RD!!Richard J said:I was disappointed SCP was sacked and feel the timing is wrong.I agree with TMA that RD should have done this earlier,doing it now makes little sense.
I do feel that if we had lost under Chris's leadership tonight and then again against the Spanners on Saturday then possibly even I would have reluctantly accepted it was time.
That said we need to get behind the team now.The king is dead,long live the king.1 -
The fact he called up Sordell speaks volumes, not a clue!cafctom said:
How about Marvin Sordell and Chris Solly - both players he shortlisted (and in Sordell's case called up) to play for his team in the Olympic Games.LargeAddick said:
ask Stuart Pearce to name one of our players and he'd struggle. These 'pundit's' are jumping on the bandwagon but really know bugger all about us.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
Think pundits are jumping on the 'feeder club' bandwagon because it fits their 'crazy foreign owner strikes again!' agenda. They don't give a toss about Charlton, just want to watch the circus.
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It's all so sad that this was all going on as a backdrop to the QF up in Sheffield. It appears that the debacle that we all witnessed on Sunday was as a direct result of Chris and the players knowing he was on the way out. If that is the case RD and crew should be ashamed because this was the best chance we've had for 67 years to get to Wembley in the FA Cup. If this is true then this shows us that RD and his crew have absolutely no idea about the fabric, emotions and traditions of the English game. English football as we know it appears to be going down the toilet.2
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English football definitely is on it's way out.Rob said:It's all so sad that this was all going on as a backdrop to the QF up in Sheffield. It appears that the debacle that we all witnessed on Sunday was as a direct result of Chris and the players knowing he was on the way out. If that is the case RD and crew should be ashamed because this was the best chance we've had for 67 years to get to Wembley in the FA Cup. If this is true then this shows us that RD and his crew have absolutely no idea about the fabric, emotions and traditions of the English game. English football as we know it appears to be going down the toilet.
I don't mind if some rich money bags wants to buy out a club, but it has to be someone who knows about English football, the individual identity a club has and most importantly, understand the fans!
In our case, this isn't happening. The way Roland treated Powell was disgusting but he doesn't care. Roland will continue stripping us apart for his networking toy.
I want Charlton to do well, but under Roland's regime, Charlton isn't Chatlton!0 -
Wake up and smell the roses!eaststandmike said:
Which clubs in the network are we feeding then?The Red Robin said:
Become? We already are.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
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Where do they play? Not heard of a team by that name before.kentred2 said:
Wake up and smell the roses!eaststandmike said:
Which clubs in the network are we feeding then?The Red Robin said:
Become? We already are.StewieGriffinSE7 said:Stuart Pearce just talking on TalkSPORT very worried for Charlton and feels they will become a feeder club for SL
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Sky Sports and all seater stadiums assisted.Sidcup_Robin said:
English football definitely is on it's way out.Rob said:It's all so sad that this was all going on as a backdrop to the QF up in Sheffield. It appears that the debacle that we all witnessed on Sunday was as a direct result of Chris and the players knowing he was on the way out. If that is the case RD and crew should be ashamed because this was the best chance we've had for 67 years to get to Wembley in the FA Cup. If this is true then this shows us that RD and his crew have absolutely no idea about the fabric, emotions and traditions of the English game. English football as we know it appears to be going down the toilet.
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You miss the point eaststandmike - enough people 'reckon' it must be true, so it has now actually become true. You just have to believe strongly enough to make the magic happen!0
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Heard from a friend with a very good source that Powell was actually sacked on Saturday.
That would explain Ansah's tweet..and his reaction Sunday.0 -
One year ago today.0
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FFS change the bl@@dy title.
Thought LBHTF was dancing in the streets of Leeds this morning.4 -
What was Ansah's tweet? It's also now Wednesday and nothing has come out.StubleyAddick said:Heard from a friend with a very good source that Powell was actually sacked on Saturday.
That would explain Ansah's tweet..and his reaction Sunday.0 -
Really? Let it go mate.......Callumcafc said:One year ago today.
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Yaaaaawwwwnnn0
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Greenie said:
Really? Let it go mate.......Callumcafc said:One year ago today.
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I only know because I was browsing #cafc on twitter and saw a few people mention it. Keep your hair on!Greenie said:
Really? Let it go mate.......Callumcafc said:One year ago today.
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Should Powell have been sacked though?
Never really had that debated on here properly.
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