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Holden sacked?! (Ed. Yes - Confirmed)

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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    SDAddick said:
    se9addick said:
    It’s interesting that they’ve (apparently) sacked the back room staff too. That’s an expensive thing to do, also suggests they have someone lined up who’ll bring their team with them. 
    I don't think Senda was that expensive. I suspect part of the reason he was promoted to the first team in the first place is because he was here and relatively cheap. He didn't seem to be really highly regarded by players and people who regularly watch the youth teams the way others (Hayes) seem to be. 
    Oh if it’s just Senda then it won’t have cost a fortune, but the cheap option is normally to sack the manger, let the coaching staff have a crack at it for a couple of matches and see what happens. Something tells me they have a manager + coaching team lines up already.
  • TeeC
    TeeC Posts: 311
    Two potential theories. 1) This a convenient distraction tactic / rationale for when we don’t sign anyone over the next few days. And / Or 2) maybe the transfer malaise is because Scott and Holden didn’t agree on targets. 

    Regardless, Methven is guilty of being full of shit until proven otherwise and we haven’t got any money, until proven otherwise. 
  • cafc4life
    cafc4life Posts: 4,632
    Moore incoming. 
    Do you mean Darren Moore, or just more managers incoming?
    Ronnie
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,525
    Right decision.
    The squad may not be the finished article but we could have a £30m squad and still be shite with the dismal coaching and tactical naivety Holden’s responsible for.
    is it? We will just appoint another manager, give him a long contract and then sack him. Lack of investment on the playing side is the problem. 
    You can only coach the players you have - we have a squad full of shit ones…again. 
  • Darren Moore would get in our team….easy one to sell to the Texan soccer investors.

  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,847

    Are those backroom staff actually coaches ? I've not heard of them . 
    Glyn Shimmell is the goalkeepers' coach. He's actually been kept on by every manager since Bowyer, I think. 
    He came in 2 years ago. You can tell how quickly things have changed that Adkins was the manager at the time, and Ged Roddy the technical director

    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-appoint-millwalls-academy-coach-glyn-shimell-as-andy-marshalls-successor/#google_vignette
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,184
    Charlton board are drawing up a short list of prospective managers 
  • se9addick said:
    SDAddick said:
    se9addick said:
    It’s interesting that they’ve (apparently) sacked the back room staff too. That’s an expensive thing to do, also suggests they have someone lined up who’ll bring their team with them. 
    I don't think Senda was that expensive. I suspect part of the reason he was promoted to the first team in the first place is because he was here and relatively cheap. He didn't seem to be really highly regarded by players and people who regularly watch the youth teams the way others (Hayes) seem to be. 
    Oh if it’s just Senda then it won’t have cost a fortune, but the cheap option is normally to sack the manger, let the coaching staff have a crack at it for a couple of matches and see what happens. Something tells me they have a manager + coaching team lines up already.
    You’d like to think so, and might explain the lack of signings in the last 4 weeks, but I  doubt it and want to be proved wrong.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    Jason Pearce interim manager. He was bloody U16 manager less than a year ago. Utter shambles. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    edited August 2023
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  • RedRobin
    RedRobin Posts: 1,377
    KettsJohn said:
    Mixed feelings about this. What a shambles this club has become. 
    Become? We’ve been a shambles for years, this is just a continuation of the shambles. 
  • Magician needed.
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  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Jason Pearce interim manager. He was bloody U16 manager less than a year ago. Utter shambles. 
    I just hope it isn't a Jacko situation where Pearce goes on a run a form, gets a contract, then immediately gets found out for lacking ideas.

    I'm not too concerned about who the interim manager is. I highly doubt Pearce is in consideration for the job, and if he is then I'll kick off. 
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,906
    I liked DH as a fella but yesterday really was the last straw for me. Obviously we need a few additional players but not a chance in hell this squad should be losing 5 on the bounce to the teams we have lost to. I’m glad this time the back room has gone as well we need to total reset
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Sad that it hasn't worked out as Holden's a nice guy. His limitations as a manager have been cruelly exposed whilst bereft of some key injured players and he hasn't been able to find a winning formula to paper over the cracks.
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    Who would've done the sacking exactly - how does it work with all the board members, Methwen etc?
    Would have thought one of SMT by phone. 
    Wouldn’t be the first time someone sacked by a phone call,little s/&ts.
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  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,812
    Absolute wank - I liked Holden, top bloke


    never given a fair crack 
  • TeeC
    TeeC Posts: 311
    In hindsight the regime aligned / connected ITKs have had this one in the oven all week… clear shift of tone and frankly blame 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467


    "nor his development of many younger players....because we have forced him to play them due to lack of investment."
    He didn't have to start Deji, Anderson, and Kanu yesterday. He chose to with more experienced players left on the bench. 
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824
    SDAddick said:
    Jason Pearce interim manager. He was bloody U16 manager less than a year ago. Utter shambles. 
    I just hope it isn't a Jacko situation where Pearce goes on a run a form, gets a contract, then immediately gets found out for lacking ideas.

    I'm not too concerned about who the interim manager is. I highly doubt Pearce is in consideration for the job, and if he is then I'll kick off. 
    I agree , although Jacko did better than both of his successors, without better players .  I’d also rather Pearce than Lee Johnson 
  • So we now have to go through another cycle of a manager coming in, changing the system, it's not his players ... groundhog day
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    In case you need reminding how dysfunctional the club is, Holden was given a 3-year contract in March.
  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 1,756
    Surely it should have been Hayes supported by Pearce.
  • Who would've done the sacking exactly - how does it work with all the board members, Methwen etc?
    Would have thought one of SMT by phone. 
    Wouldn’t be the first time someone sacked by a phone call,little s/&ts.
    Charlie has distanced himself from the sacking in this article…which seems to suggest that it was Andy Scott’s call:

    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/dean-holden-dismissed-by-charlton-athletic-with-backroom-departures-too/
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,711
    edited August 2023
    Brownie12 said:
    Right decision.
    The squad may not be the finished article but we could have a £30m squad and still be shite with the dismal coaching and tactical naivety Holden’s responsible for.
    is it? We will just appoint another manager, give him a long contract and then sack him. Lack of investment on the playing side is the problem. 
    You can only coach the players you have - we have a squad full of shit ones…again. 
    The squad may not be good enough yet for a promotion challenge but it’s not “full of shit ones”. That’s just cobblers. 
    Being silent on the touchline when Asiimwe was the last man, leaving us ludicrously exposed to the counter for their winner yesterday, was gross professional incompetence on Holden’s part and, in the circumstances of desperately needing a point, unforgivable. Curbs would have been going ballistic, whistling and barking at least at some of the players who’d gone forward to assume defensive positions.
    Of course they need to appoint the right manager now but Holden is patently not a good enough coach and us tactically naive. He’d had his chance.