Parky on the OS

The alternative explanation is that Parky has already been offered a suitable payoff on condition that he talks positively about the future plans. I know that is a very 'rose-tinted' view given the experience of the last few years but I'm sticking with it for now.

In my history of supporting Charlton I can think of few natural goal scorers - Hales, Mendonca, Hunt and D.Bent, its not easy to get them in. Not wishing to defend Parkie, but maybe Burton and Kandol was the best we could get, when inherting a doomed team. The real issue is the failure this season of our lead strikers Gray, Todorov (yes he is still here) and Varney, who were suppossed to shoot us out of this division - well I suppose they did that.

Actually, goals haven't really been the problem, have they?

Ironically, if you look at the table, I think only Norwich in the bottom eight have scored more goals than us.

Our problems have been more to do with schoolboy errors by clowns like Hudson at the other end of the pitch - and indeed, the failure of just about everyone in the team to defend as we seem at our worst defensively when we're in the lead and we pull all 11 back behind the ball !

Congrats to Chris Iwelumo. As we head off to div three, I wonder how he'll fare in the premiership with Wolves?

I agree with him, it's not his fault Pardew spent millions on Varney, Gray, McLeod, plus wages on Todorov, Lita and Iwelumo. With that sort of money, we should have had a few decent strikers in the first place. We would have done better last season and this season.

I'm also certain if we had better strikers, we'd be playing two up front.

He signed Kandol and Burton because they were the best available. Pardew signed Waghorn on loan who was no better either. What are you supposed to do, bottom of the league, no money, and no decent strikers? Do you keep playing what you've got? Or bring some in to at least give a bit of competition?

[cite]Posted By: seth plum[/cite]Every set of supporters, every manager, every team throughout history has talked of extra firepower, a partnership up front, a 20 goal a season striker and so on. One of the most refreshing things I ever read was Adrian Boothroyd, when Watford were on their way up, they sold, I think it was Helgeson, fans were upset and asked who on earth was going to score the goals now, his answer was 'the other players'. No whinge, realised that you have 11 players in yout team, and he would have to sort it, organise it so 'another player' would score. Not sitting on his backside waiting for manna from heaven.

Which is exactly why he played 4-5-1. It gives all five of the midfield more freedom to get forward.

He only put Burton and Kandol in the squad yesterday because the rest of them are even worse. Todorov's not in because he's not put in enough effort in training, everyone wants to see hard working players in the team. Dickson has shown he's not really a Championship player and Tuna is 17, only scored a few goals for the reserves.

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[cite]Posted By: nigel w[/cite]Congrats to Chris Iwelumo. As we head off to div three, I wonder how he'll fare in the premiership with Wolves?

Letsw hope he gets a chance

Otherwise he'll get sent back here .......

;o)

We could do worse ... oh yes we have!!!

At the moment, I don't think we can worry about 12 months time in the Championship, Ken.


First we'll have our work cut out to bring together a competitive team unit with backbone and mental strength, and sufficient ability to put in a promotion challenge.

At this stage, our focus must be on next season only...... ?

Well backbone and mental strength...... have been sorely missing from our present team, so of course,...... but that is what I expect of a manager to provide! which is where we came in!