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Message To Our Supporters

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
edited September 2017 in General Charlton
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On this day 1985
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  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,825
    Roland Out!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,439
    First time I've ever properly read this (Was only a few years old when it actually happened) - In regards to the comments about finding somewhere else to play in the London Borough of Greenwich (first line under the map).

    Where on earth were the club looking to play within the Borough does anyone know?
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    " We are delighted with this arrangement?".....Bloody hell!

    I can't remember being too delighted about it.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    That still makes me go cold. I just couldn't believe it when I first read it. I remember I just felt numb. Then the anger kicked in.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,015
    still a chilling message
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Thanks for posting. Yes, chilling is the word.
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,315
    shirty5 said:

    Rodney Trotter 48 seconds in?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,602
    Like others, I felt numb when handed this as I went through the turnstile. It had been mentioned in the local press (Sidcup Times I think) in the week leading up to the game but never really took much notice of it.

    Still thought/hoped it wouldn't happen pretty much up until the night before the Stoke game.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,015
    DaveMehmet said:

    Like others, I felt numb when handed this as I went through the turnstile. It had been mentioned in the local press (Sidcup Times I think) in the week leading up to the game but never really took much notice of it.

    Still thought/hoped it wouldn't happen pretty much up until the night before the Stoke game.

    Yep, felt the same. It was more that I felt it couldn't possibly happen to my club ... and then it did.

    Very depressing times for CAFC.

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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
    Strangely it was not long after the announcement that I started going regularly to watch Charlton on my own/with mates (i was 14) so didn't get the dreaded letter or go to the 'last' game and most of my formative supporting years were at Selhurst (although had been many times to The Valley but not as a regular)

    I wonder if anyone took up the discount to watch Palace first team games.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    You know when you first glance at a document and your eyes latch onto some words somewhere to begin with?

    The first words I read were 'Norwood Junction' and my heart sank.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    A dark day in our history.

    But also the trigger for a magnificent and ultimately successful campaign to bring us home, to which I was mainly an observer but for which am forever grateful.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,298
    wasn't alive when this was announced, fortunately every time i've seen charlton play a home game has been at the valley, and hopefully something we never see again.

  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,589
    hard to think that the facilities at Selhurst Park are superior to those anywhere
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,449
    DaveMehmet said:

    MrOneLung said:

    Strangely it was not long after the announcement that I started going regularly to watch Charlton on my own/with mates (i was 14) so didn't get the dreaded letter or go to the 'last' game and most of my formative supporting years were at Selhurst (although had been many times to The Valley but not as a regular)

    I wonder if anyone took up the discount to watch Palace first team games.

    @LouisMend
    On twitter there's a Charlton fan called Freddie who, a few months ago, tweeted that he felt that Palace's home support was something to be envious of.

    Since then, we all call him a Palace fan, people photo shop him into Palace shirts, lying in a bed with a Palace duvet etc.

    Nobody on there calls me a Palace fan anymore as he took the heat away from me.

    I'm going to make it my life's work to get him to sign up to this website.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    LargeAddick said:

    hard to think that the facilities at Selhurst Park are superior to those anywhere

    I'm not so sure, did you ever play on Winns Common and change in the cowsheds? ;)
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957
    T.C.E said:

    LargeAddick said:

    hard to think that the facilities at Selhurst Park are superior to those anywhere

    I'm not so sure, did you ever play on Winns Common and change in the cowsheds? ;)
    I know I did.

  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Remember this like it was yesterday.....I kept thinking, how could they do this, surely they wont......They did.

    Ironically I bought my first season ticket after we were promoted which I kept up until 2006. I was horrified that first game at Sellout against Sheffield Wednesday....I think 7000 was the gate and it seemed like they had more fans there than we did.
    Seems surreal looking back at the naivety of the directors expecting us to travel to that shithole.....but some of us did.

    The contrast between then and 1998 was immense...seeing the crowds steadily grow.....I think we got 19,000 for a league cup tie against Leicester and it was then that I knew were back.....lets hope we rise again after these numpties leave the club.

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  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,254
    I was on holiday in Estepona in Spain at the time and I had no idea of the score much less of this notice. On the day afterwards I borrowed a paper, a Sunday Express, off someone who had flown in that day. I cheerfully noted the score, went to read the report and it was then I read all about it. All the week following I had my wife telling me to cheer up and enjoy the holiday!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    edited September 2017
    given out against Palarse as well ----TheEvening Gooner showing their usual attention to things south of the river commented " dont know what the issue is it only takes 15 mins ti get from Charlton to Palarse"
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    I remember it well, my dad and all his mates were absolutely apoplectic.
    We all went to Shithurst for about 5 matches, decided it was a pain in the arse getting there, and just did aways mostly.
    When we went to Upton Park, we went to more 'home' matches.
    Never got a ticket for the return to the Valley, although I understand that there was about 45,000 there if everyone is to believed who said they were there. ;o)
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    The young BBC reporter was quite good, I wonder what happened to him?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    Glad to have so many of an age where you can share your memories of this.

    I was far too young. I know we've also got a few on here that campaigned tirelessly to get us back to our home, and to those of that generation that did, I can only say thank you
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited September 2017
    My mum was very upset. The Valley had been like a second home in her younger days.
  • stockportugaladdick
    stockportugaladdick Posts: 1,139
    I was not at the game when that leaflet was handed out. Living oop north back then was a nightmare trying to keep up with events at Charlton, no internet, nothing but local footy news in all daily newspapers, no Sky with Jeff on a Saturday, poxy 'kick off' on Sunday with Gerald Sinstadt instead of the 'big match' with Brian Moore etc, etc.

    Once I heard snippets of the intention to leave the Valley, it seemed so unreal, like today's version of fake news! I could not accept that a move to Selhurst would really happen.

    That was until the following game when we played at Oldham, I think it was a midweek fixture, and seeing the anger among our travelling fans, the chants and the utter feeling of having been screwed over the by the club suddenly became all too apparent and during that match, I gradually came to realise that this move was for real.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    So who in that video posts on here?

    Dark days, yet I still continued to go, unlike now (*cough* apart from this Saturday).
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    My twelfth birthday , some present eh.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,653
    We beat the Palarse and Reid missed the chance of a hat trick of pens.

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