Every club is well backed financially, it’s just a question of whether that backing is sufficient for the outgoings and how long that backing can continue
Or... they are a really well run market town club, playing in the third tier of English football, having been non-league for most of their existence.
More shocking is the fact that for the last six seasons, Wycombe Wanderers and Charlton Athletic are pretty much on a par league standing and performance wise. You could even say they've looked far more likely to get promoted in recent seasons.
I mean it’s poor in the sense that if they got to Wembley you would think they would sell at least more than 10,000. Yet they can’t sell out a home tie in what is a huge game for them. Market town or not!
They've never really had to spend money on the ground, and all the improvements were previously paid for by Wasps when they were there. They also had good financial backing in the last ten years which got them to the Championship in the COVID year, and then lived off that for a bit
They were well backed for a club of their size for a while (previous owner has just bought Reading) but their new owner is on a different stratosphere. The question there is if he gets bored and pulls the plug what happens?
Or... they are a really well run market town club, playing in the third tier of English football, having been non-league for most of their existence.
More shocking is the fact that for the last six seasons, Wycombe Wanderers and Charlton Athletic are pretty much on a par league standing and performance wise. You could even say they've looked far more likely to get promoted in recent seasons.
That's how I see it. I don't think they can be made fun of as they're doing well and living within their means like Stevenage, Burton, Exeter etc.
I applaud anyone who goes to games for clubs who aren't all glitz and glamour.
We are the club to make fun of in the play-offs if anything. You realise when you talk to other league1 fans how different their expectations are to ours. To Leyton Orient and Stockport especially, the championship is a dream.
For me it's the very minimum I expect from Charlton, a competitive championship side with Premier league ambitions.
I've come to realise I'm a bit like @oohaahmortimer and that I'm a complete football snob.
Pants league. Let's hope in a few weeks time we are out of it. We need it as a club.
Or... they are a really well run market town club, playing in the third tier of English football, having been non-league for most of their existence.
More shocking is the fact that for the last six seasons, Wycombe Wanderers and Charlton Athletic are pretty much on a par league standing and performance wise. You could even say they've looked far more likely to get promoted in recent seasons.
I mean it’s poor in the sense that if they got to Wembley you would think they would sell at least more than 10,000. Yet they can’t sell out a home tie in what is a huge game for them. Market town or not!
Surely they’ll sell out for the home leg? Crazy if not.
Recently yes, but I’m not sure whether that’s always been the case
They haven't. I am friends with someone who has spoken with their old owner a few times, he lives in High Wycombe. Told him many times they always really struggled to compete financially with league1 teams and were near the bottom of the pile wages wise.
They have only recently come into money, before that they've not had much at all and have done very well to be as consistent as they have been.
Or... they are a really well run market town club, playing in the third tier of English football, having been non-league for most of their existence.
More shocking is the fact that for the last six seasons, Wycombe Wanderers and Charlton Athletic are pretty much on a par league standing and performance wise. You could even say they've looked far more likely to get promoted in recent seasons.
I mean it’s poor in the sense that if they got to Wembley you would think they would sell at least more than 10,000. Yet they can’t sell out a home tie in what is a huge game for them. Market town or not!
Our home play off attendance 7 years ago v Shrewsbury was 14,367.
They've never really had to spend money on the ground, and all the improvements were previously paid for by Wasps when they were there. They also had good financial backing in the last ten years which got them to the Championship in the COVID year, and then lived off that for a bit
They were somewhat lucky getting into the playoffs the covid year by points per game.
Or... they are a really well run market town club, playing in the third tier of English football, having been non-league for most of their existence.
More shocking is the fact that for the last six seasons, Wycombe Wanderers and Charlton Athletic are pretty much on a par league standing and performance wise. You could even say they've looked far more likely to get promoted in recent seasons.
I mean it’s poor in the sense that if they got to Wembley you would think they would sell at least more than 10,000. Yet they can’t sell out a home tie in what is a huge game for them. Market town or not!
My point is, perhaps the word 'shocking' shouldn't be used to beat them with in this case, when we need to look closer to home for 'shocking' statistics.
What do we care what Wycombe sell anyway? If we are outnumbered 3:1 in the away game (6000:nearly 2000) we will make more than double the noise. They will be outnumbered 10:1 at least in our home game. Works in our favour the less the fans get behind them.
The location of Wycombe's stadium must be a handicap to the club for ever building attendances, miles from the station, one local bus route which only runs a half-hourly service on a Sunday, with last bus back to the town centre at 19.18 on a Sunday & also on a back end of a trading estate with only one road in & same road out resulting in very long delays for anybody travelling by road. It is one of the worst away trips of the season despite Wycombe having a very fast & frequent rail service from Marylebone. Whoever thought of building a stadium in that location must be mad or hates football.
So the chances of getting from the station to the ground relatively quickly are slim? I'm going to be pushing it to get there for the start. Never been there before
I think at least two sides of the Wycombe ground, remain unchanged from their none league days, I know they moved ground from the town but even Adams park has grown slightly over the years, they went to Wembley years ago and took a very large following in the Martin O'Neil era.
The location of Wycombe's stadium must be a handicap to the club for ever building attendances, miles from the station, one local bus route which only runs a half-hourly service on a Sunday, with last bus back to the town centre at 19.18 on a Sunday & also on a back end of a trading estate with only one road in & same road out resulting in very long delays for anybody travelling by road. It is one of the worst away trips of the season despite Wycombe having a very fast & frequent rail service from Marylebone. Whoever thought of building a stadium in that location must be mad or hates football.
So the chances of getting from the station to the ground relatively quickly are slim? I'm going to be pushing it to get there for the start. Never been there before
Or... they are a really well run market town club, playing in the third tier of English football, having been non-league for most of their existence.
More shocking is the fact that for the last six seasons, Wycombe Wanderers and Charlton Athletic are pretty much on a par league standing and performance wise. You could even say they've looked far more likely to get promoted in recent seasons.
I mean it’s poor in the sense that if they got to Wembley you would think they would sell at least more than 10,000. Yet they can’t sell out a home tie in what is a huge game for them. Market town or not!
Surely they’ll sell out for the home leg? Crazy if not.
They just lost their last 3 games, coincidentally to the 3 other teams in the playoffs, 2 of which they were at home for. Hardly going to inspire non-regular attending fans to turn up for, especially when one of them was us and we were making a lot of noise, constantly from before the game started to after it ended, with just a break at half time. That must be in the back of their minds as to whether they want to chance that happening again and having to sit through it.
The location of Wycombe's stadium must be a handicap to the club for ever building attendances, miles from the station, one local bus route which only runs a half-hourly service on a Sunday, with last bus back to the town centre at 19.18 on a Sunday & also on a back end of a trading estate with only one road in & same road out resulting in very long delays for anybody travelling by road. It is one of the worst away trips of the season despite Wycombe having a very fast & frequent rail service from Marylebone. Whoever thought of building a stadium in that location must be mad or hates football.
It’s terrible. Reminds me a bit of Oxford’s stadium location.
What do we care what Wycombe sell anyway? If we are outnumbered 3:1 in the away game (6000:nearly 2000) we will make more than double the noise. They will be outnumbered 10:1 at least in our home game. Works in our favour the less the fans get behind them.
Lets just focus on us
I can see there being a few Charlton dotted around in the home end.
@Alwaysneil we'll soon find out when we get a couple of goals lead
The location of Wycombe's stadium must be a handicap to the club for ever building attendances, miles from the station, one local bus route which only runs a half-hourly service on a Sunday, with last bus back to the town centre at 19.18 on a Sunday & also on a back end of a trading estate with only one road in & same road out resulting in very long delays for anybody travelling by road. It is one of the worst away trips of the season despite Wycombe having a very fast & frequent rail service from Marylebone. Whoever thought of building a stadium in that location must be mad or hates football.
I imagine it was either all that was available, or all they could afford at the time. It's not as if there is loads of wasteland to build a ground in the area, seeing that it is on the edge of the Chilterns and is very hilly too.
They are certainly a club that has outperformed their support and natural size. My memories of them were of playing Welling United in non-league in the 90s when Martin O’Neil was starting his managing career. To have retained league football for 30 years and be pushing again for the Championship on their crowds is some achievement
Got to give us some credit for being so absolutely shite for quite so long as well, fair dos and all that. 😂
The location of Wycombe's stadium must be a handicap to the club for ever building attendances, miles from the station, one local bus route which only runs a half-hourly service on a Sunday, with last bus back to the town centre at 19.18 on a Sunday & also on a back end of a trading estate with only one road in & same road out resulting in very long delays for anybody travelling by road. It is one of the worst away trips of the season despite Wycombe having a very fast & frequent rail service from Marylebone. Whoever thought of building a stadium in that location must be mad or hates football.
So the chances of getting from the station to the ground relatively quickly are slim? I'm going to be pushing it to get there for the start. Never been there before
The location of Wycombe's stadium must be a handicap to the club for ever building attendances, miles from the station, one local bus route which only runs a half-hourly service on a Sunday, with last bus back to the town centre at 19.18 on a Sunday & also on a back end of a trading estate with only one road in & same road out resulting in very long delays for anybody travelling by road. It is one of the worst away trips of the season despite Wycombe having a very fast & frequent rail service from Marylebone. Whoever thought of building a stadium in that location must be mad or hates football.
So the chances of getting from the station to the ground relatively quickly are slim? I'm going to be pushing it to get there for the start. Never been there before
There may well be taxis just outside the station
They must have uber/bolt too
They do.
I can confirm that. For the league game we got an uber from the Flint Cottage to the Hour Glass and walked from there. Previous years it's been easy enough to get a cab from the rank on the High St if Spoons is more to your liking.
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I applaud anyone who goes to games for clubs who aren't all glitz and glamour.
We are the club to make fun of in the play-offs if anything. You realise when you talk to other league1 fans how different their expectations are to ours. To Leyton Orient and Stockport especially, the championship is a dream.
For me it's the very minimum I expect from Charlton, a competitive championship side with Premier league ambitions.
I've come to realise I'm a bit like @oohaahmortimer and that I'm a complete football snob.
Pants league. Let's hope in a few weeks time we are out of it. We need it as a club.
They have only recently come into money, before that they've not had much at all and have done very well to be as consistent as they have been.
Lets just focus on us
@Alwaysneil we'll soon find out when we get a couple of goals lead
Got to give us some credit for being so absolutely shite for quite so long as well, fair dos and all that. 😂
I bet their week has been character building to say the least. Hope the club sort out a bonus for them all to say thankyou