Worst season since…?

We are shit and it’s a failing of numerous idiot ownerships, incompetent managers and not good enough players. This mob can talk the talk but I have absolutely no doubts that they will not walk the walk just like the last lot, and the lot before etc etc. 

fucking sick of it

Off_it said:

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Very true.....it's been a very, very long night though.

Agree totally with the OP.

New northern managers have ruined it for me. Why are there so many of these useless prats?! 

Just find a lot of things around the club hard to really get excited about - we finally get a genuine 20-30 goal striker but either play him wide or not give him the right players to play to his strengths.

Appleton I find completely uninspiring as a manager , at least Holden made an effort to understand the club just feels like it's another 8-10 month stint somewhere for Appleton and he'll turn up at Carlisle or something when he eventually leaves us. 

Don't really trust Andy Scott to deliver what's needed in January despite the press interviews. 

Since I've followed in 86 there's always been a united campaign off the pitch, or something building on the footballing side, or just a feeling that things will come good soon. 08-09 was a sobering season, dropping from the Champ after so many comfortable years in the Premier League, but there was never really a concern that a serious bounce-back attempt wouldn't follow.

Right now it's bleak. 3rd division tumbleweed on a loop for x number of years until someone, or something, sparks things off again.

Sillybilly said:

It’s a slow lingering death. The last three or four seasons are just blending into each other. What an absolute bloody waste that  glorious day at Wembley was in 2019. 

Absolutely this.  As evidenced on the stats post at the top of the thread, points wise, at this stage, even 16/17 was worse (albeit by a point).  The problem is that back then, the patience and optimism was, imo, a lot higher.  The slow lingering death is spot on.  Take someone like Fraser.  2 years ago, he would still be getting comments about him coming good etc etc, but reading the post match views, people are are just done with the likes of him, the Gilbey’s and other similar players.  

Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

AFKABartram said:

Well it’s the least I’ve enjoyed a season so far @Oh Eddie Youds... since I started going in the late 80s 1962

There may have been worse periods or seasons, but Charlton is such a joyless experience these days.
Relentless mediocrity, no heroes, no leaders, no personality, no fun, but worst of all no end in sight

We all feel deflated with what's going on at Charlton the last few years but I think to say this season has no heroes, leaders, personality or fun is very harsh on Alfie May.

This season is clearly a write off. Not much point in investing in Jan. We'll release our billions in time for next season and win the league with a record 124 points total.

I think this season feels worse because it's come after a run of seasons when we failed to make any sort of challenge for the playoffs and we hoped this season might be different. The reality is we're doing better than the last couple of seasons and, while we're dropping points to teams like Burton who we ought to be beating routinely, we're also gaining the occasional point from games where based on the form book we'd expect to get tonked. Obviously, none of us is going to be happy with where we are; given the size of our fan-base we really ought to be at least in the mix for the playoffs each season in this division. But this time last year I was wondering if there was a risk of actually going down, whereas this season I'm just resigning myself to the playoffs being out of reach again and cheering myself up by watching the women play.

Having said which, the only competitive game I've managed to actually get to this year was the league cup game at Newport, which was the worst game of football I've ever seen. So from my point of view we broke one record this year.