You can’t blame a man for taking a job.
I think one thing Russell Slade and Karl Robinson have in common is that they are both willing to accept severe austerity measures from the board of whichever Club is empolying them, and try make the best they can of it.
In doing that however, they lay themselves open to accusations of not fighting their corner, and even collaborating with policies which many fans will see as directly harming their first team's ability to compete.
Sometimes the board-driven austerity (spending cut backs, player sales, staff lay-offs) might be necessary in order to save a debt-ridden Club from extinction.
But has that ever been the case at Charlton since Roland Duchatelet became our owner?
Cooperating with harsh, unpopular policies for the sake of a football Club's very survival is one thing.
But Duchatelet's board-driven incompetence on the footballing side has brought us to where we are today. Nothing else.
We had a Championship place, a Championship squad (more or less) and we had 15,000+ fans coming to the Valley every other weekend.
Now we have none of these things.
If KR succeeds, then fantastic and all credit to him. If he fails, then he can't plead that the board let him down.
He must have known their track record when he was considering taking the job. In his position, I would not have taken it.