Goodbye and Good Luck Lee Bowyer

As others have mentioned above, the 18/19 was a great season, one of my favourite seasons following the club in fact. He united the club in very troubled times. He leaves a legend in my mind. 

Good luck, Lee.

For me this season was much of a muchness with 2019-2020: energetic highly motivated start, slump into relegation form, players dropped and moved on, replacements often mediocre. It was time for him to go, and I suspect his record will take some beating.

Algarveaddick said:

Good luck Lee (apart from when your new teams play us). Well done for sticking with it through some very tough times. Good time for both him and us I think, and I am pleased it has been his decision.   

Seconded. (all of it, but especially the last bit)

Too many fans have underestimated his achievements with us. Whoever comes in will not have to deal with the extraordinary issues and obstacles he had to face. I really hope that Thomas has received wise counsel from Roddy and Mumford on what comes next. And that he gives whoever takes over the best chance, by taking himself off Twitter.

He gave us some great memories. Spending the play off final with my boys at Wembley was a really special time. The play of semi was an epic as well. Bowyer gave us hope and something to be proud of again. 

I'm glad he was never sacked. He didn't quite manage to overtake Powell as my favourite manager in recent years, and Powell being jogged on by the Rat still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The reality is that last season Bowyer really was the only thing that stood between us and a total collapse and downward spiral. I doubt Thomas would have been quite so willing to take over a basket case that wasn't even running itself properly on the pitch, and the reason we're able to be competitive this season at all is because we had Bowyer and Gallen in who could put together a squad in short order and make sure we never had a point where we were truly dead in the water. Bowyer stuck through Roland, Southall, Nimer, Elliott and Farnell, and even if results weren't as good this season as we would have liked, we really should consider how lucky we are that we get to squabble over whether or not we should be making the play-offs this season when in September we were all glued to a court case that could have decided whether we got to go on existing. Bowyer really was the only positive during our darkest period  - our last collective outpouring of joy before Sandgaard took over was Bowyer finally signing a new contract - and I'm not going to forget that. It's a shame that he doesn't get to then take us back up the leagues, and things weren't looking good in the past few weeks, but any future success if we get it will be had on the back of a foundation laid by Bowyer doing an incredible job in impossible circumstances while the people who were meant to safeguard our club attempted to destroy it. Thanks Lee.

Shame how it ended, but some great memories along the way and his record is actually pretty good over his time here, must be up there in the top 3, made all the more amazing when you consider the circumstances he had to work under for the majority of his time.

He'll always receive a warm welcome I'm sure whenever we next play against a team he manages.

I agree with all of this. Time to move on, but thank you Lee for all your efforts and some great memories. 

Good luck Lee, always remember that day at Wembley and the games at Charlton that led up to the playoffs. The team selections of the past few months have been a bit odd, and unsettled, but do we ever know the 'issues involved' and players fitness etc. Always loved the idea of having a  manager that was one of 'own'. Hope Thomas  gives Jacko a chance to prove himself as manager 

Probably right for everyone for him to leave the club now. However, given that he managed the club under the dead hand of Roland and then under an even worse bunch of shysters, what he achieved was remarkable. Last season he had to deal with probably the worse injury crises in my 55 years of supporting Charlton, compounded by Chelsea recalling probably his best player. Despite that, it was only in the last few minutes of the season that we were relegated. This year we started off very well, with a run of clean sheets, but the near simultaneous loss to injury of our first choice centre back pairing has caused us to leak too many goals ( although we are still in touching distance of the play offs ). Despite all the bad luck he leaves us in much the same position that he found us and with many happy memories.

Good luck to him.

Will always be a legend in my eyes. That day at Wembley will never be forgotten about. Always hoped he would get a proper send off before he left.

Good luck Bows.

All the best for the future Lee. Thanks for the memories. I flew back for the play-off final and what a day that was.

Good luck Bows, I'm sure a fresh start at Birmingham will work out well 

Thanks Lee; the sad thing is after the play offs we had such momentum as a club and it was all squandered by off the field rollocks. Lets hope we can get that back we know from when Lee took over from Robinson it doesn't take a lot to get us moving but boy has it been a slog lately.