Positives of relegation

Able to park nearer the ground.

ricky_otto said:

The only positive I can see is that the asking price could be lower and we could be rescued from this shit show. I don’t think there is any other positive to be taken. Bowyer and Co worked so hard to get out of the dire division that we will be playing in next season.  We have to do it all again, and the it looks like without Bowyer. 

Think you'll find that Roland still wants £50m for the stadium and training ground. None of us know how he's come up with this figure, but us getting relegated doesn't make the land worth any less in his crazy mind. The football club doesn't hold any value, it's just buying responsibility for our financial obligations, so relegation just makes it easier for another cowboy to buy us for a pound. Staring into the abyss right now. There's zero positives. We'll be lucky if we've still got a club to support this time next year.

I can't see a single positive in this. I wish I felt otherwise but overall we seem to be an even bigger mess than we were when Miere and her shitshow was in town

Really are no positives from what I can see

DaveMehmet said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

This has set the club back 5 - 10 years at least,that is if we can come back.

League one won’t be a piece of cake, and we’re going to end up with crapper loanees and a team of freebies and kids.

Piece of cake? We’ll struggle to stay up with the money we haven’t got

I honestly think you’re right - how many senior players (I.e with two years or more first team experience under their belt) are in contract for next season? 

No positives.

The owners of ESI 1 and ESI 2 are the same group of vultures but with different front men.

They will sell off any players they can and pay themselves or their business partners as much as they can get away with (Essentially do a Southall). Legit bills will not be paid and someone will force us into admin.

Only then can we hope that the club is sold to a legit owner but that will only happen if the Valley becomes part of the deal. I think that unlikely as Duche is deluded and if the club didn't exist any more he might think it would help him sell the ground on for housing development.

Happy for this post to be laughed at in the weeks, months and years to come as I'm proven completely wrong. 

No positives.

SheedyCAFC said:

Unless you’re looking forward to giving Chris Solly some stick when we’re playing Gillingham, there’s just no positives at all sadly.

I think I’ll give that game a swerve for that exact reason, doesn’t do us or him any good.

Also, we will have some very canny players at league 1 level who will hopefully stay;

Aneke
Bonne
Oztumer
Morgan
Davison
Lapslie
Lockyer 
Pearce

Even better if we keep hold of Phillips, Sarr, Matthews, Williams and Doughty but could see them getting better offers. 

alicwkd said:

Also, we will have some very canny players at league 1 level who will hopefully stay;

Aneke
Bonne
Oztumer
Morgan
Davison
Lapslie
Lockyer 
Pearce

Even better if we keep hold of Phillips, Sarr, Matthews, Williams and Doughty but could see them getting better offers. 

Any offer they get will be better seeing as we can't offer them new deals because of our embargo.

The positives are we are unlikely to go down, which again gives us a chance to get rid of the cancer that is Roland .... 

I wouldn't mind going down to league 2 if it got rid of him, he is the thing that is killing the club, everything stems from that, decent owners seem impossible to secure nowadays ... 

So whatever division we play in we lose money, so , as usual we need someone with deep pockets to accept very real loses, for a very real length of years, hard to find. 

The numbness this time round comes from the fact, I don't think I'd have been jumping for joy if we had stayed up, there is so much uncertainty, it's not even possible to feel happiness as everything seems temporary and everything feels as if there can be no actual opportunities until Roland has gone and someone who isn't a total f*** is owning the company. 

Todds_right_hook said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

alicwkd said:

Also, we will have some very canny players at league 1 level who will hopefully stay;

Aneke
Bonne
Oztumer
Morgan
Davison
Lapslie
Lockyer 
Pearce

Even better if we keep hold of Phillips, Sarr, Matthews, Williams and Doughty but could see them getting better offers. 

Any offer they get will be better seeing as we can't offer them new deals because of our embargo.

Surly this can’t be legal. We are effectively taking jobs away on the efl say so. I get the embargo on new signings but really can’t get my head around this.

I agree. Must admit i thought we were able to sign players as long as the contract value wasn't an increase on the existing one. But from what Bowyer said the other day, that doesn't seem to be the case.

You'd assume the EFL would have to sanction some signings as we surely can't start a season with 10 senior players. Even Bolton were able to make signings.

church-lane said:

Next year will be my 50th as a Charlton fan. I've seen some shite with a few good times here and there. I can honestly say that I've never felt as low re. the club as I do now. May be time for a break and maybe I'll be back to see out my my 50th year. Maybe not.

Keep the faith mate. We will rise again. Charlton is like the algae on my patio, just won’t fcking die and always comes back!