Expectations for next season

Ferryman said:

Karel Fraeye will watch us on Roland's live feed and say we were good.

Karel Fraeye will probably watch us from the laundry basket come the second half of the season.

I have no expectations for next season.
We will be lucky to escape relegation.
Whats slightly more worrying on believing the above i have booked Blackburn and Barnsley away and also looking forward to doing about 20 aways next season.

We're gonna win the league.

A new signing will be over hyped as one of the best in the league after two games.

A young player will make his debut and be written off as never being good enough after three appearances.

Some will get upset when Bowyer plays a reserve team in the cups and we get knocked out.

We'll be talking about promotion after stringing two wins together in October.

Someone will decide we're already relegated with 30 odd games to play after no wins in three.

Refs will be blamed by some for bad results.

If Roland is still here he'll sell a good player in January, some will then say "he wasn't that good anyway", "overrated in my opinion" etc, while on social media he'll be called a snake and sent abusive messages.

A few players will have much better seasons than expected and others much worse.

We'll have an injury crisis towards the end of the calendar year.

Bowyer to perform a miracles and keep us up with a wafer-thin squad and Roland to release a rumour before both transfer windows close that we are about to be sold (therefore we must have no players as that is what makes a team attractive to potential buyers), with no progress being made on the sale due to unrealistic demands.

Thanks to that win at Wembley, we can’t be in L1 until 2020-21 so anything better than that is a bonus.

Given then lack of spending and the fact I think we will still have Roland all year, I would be satisfied with 21st. 42pts has kept teams up 3 of the last 4 seasons in The Championship. So hopefully a 25% win rate and 0.9 points per match will do the job. If we sell Taylor, I think we literally come in dead last.

palarsehater said:

My only worry is how lee and the boys will react to more losses than wins - not being negative but it’s completely different league up there, league 1 there have been some tragic teams Scunthorpe being 1 of them there is no one that bad in the championship so it will be a nervous season just hope we stay up and that he sells but who knows, suppose that’s just being a Charlton fan coya

If you think there are no rubbish teams in a league it probably means you’re the rubbish team!

if we stay up I will be utterly delighted... If we got rid of Roland for someone else who can pay the bills and god forbid put some money in over and above I think I'd fall off my chair...

I think we'll surprise a few and finish somewhere between 12th-18th

Some where between 21st and 24th next season, every game will be a cup final.

Think our season depends on how a good few other teams do this year

The Championship in some ways is a bit like the Premier League where there are a few teams who can just about tread water each year, they cant keep it up forever though (see Ipswich last season)... If we can keep pace with those sides then I think we can survive

It all hinges on Taylor and Bonne, if they can get amongst the goals and into double figures then I think we could be fine... One thing to note about those relegated last season is that none of them had a player who scored more than eight goals

Of course the other issue is staying injury free - I cant imagine us having a repeat of December yet still winning games

palarsehater said:

se9addick said:

palarsehater said:

My only worry is how lee and the boys will react to more losses than wins - not being negative but it’s completely different league up there, league 1 there have been some tragic teams Scunthorpe being 1 of them there is no one that bad in the championship so it will be a nervous season just hope we stay up and that he sells but who knows, suppose that’s just being a Charlton fan coya

If you think there are no rubbish teams in a league it probably means you’re the rubbish team!

of last seasons crop. 

walsall
bradford
scunthorpe
plymouth
wimbledon
southend 

were all dreadful - i cant see 6 championship clubs being that bad. 

Millwall / Queens Park Rangers / Barnsley / Luton / Wigan / Blackburn / Hull / Birmingham / Reading

These are the clubs we want to be challenging

Of course no one in the Championship will be as bad as those you mention but we've got to see these games in a similar fashion to games against those around us in the top six last season

The Valley HAS to be a fortress like it was last season, we'll lose more than what we did last time out but they have to be far and few between as we wont pick up much on the road