I meant buying a Season ticket for next season while Duchatelet is still in charge. I now get the feeling that RD is waiting to see what division we will be in next Season. If we are in the Championship I think, like a bad smell, he will hang around for a lot longer.
I'm not sure? If we fall out of contention for 6th place then he would sell within weeks, if we get promoted to the Championship then he would sell in the summer for a slightly higher sale price.
Which is a win/ win for our long suffering fans. The Virus finally f*cks off We are back in the league we belong in
List updated 10th April; A poor performance and a bad result for Charlton tonight. A chance missed, but all is not yet lost. Lee Bowyer now faces a very tough task - to lift his players and restore their belief that we can beat Scunthorpe on Saturday and still finish 6th this season. But it is only because of Bowyer that we are still in the play-off fight rather than adrift in mid-table. Our season is not over yet.
@lardiman Would you agree it looks like a 5 team mini league now, going for 2 play off places ? Plymouth 63 [1 game in hand] Charlton 62 Pompey 62 Peterborough 61 Scunthorpe 61 We MUST beat Scunny and get at least a point away at out of form Shrewsbury now. I have a feeling our bottle will go at Pompey next Saturday...particularly as we are taking so many. Remember Operation Ewood If we don't make the League One play offs now, there needs to be a massive clear out of players this summer. Many of our best performers will go anyway, as they are loans . I include the likes of Solly, Bauer and Pearce in that. Cleanse the stables. Out. They are mentally weak. It sticks in my gut to see what Harris has got Millwall doing and at a far higher level of football. If this mob can't get us up this season - Out.
The moment of truth is at hand. We'll find out who is capable of stepping up to the mark when the pressure is on.
You seem to be chameleon like in your posts Lardiman. This is one from ITTV. I have to say I am very disappointed, especially seeing some of the posts you have put up on here. You seem to be posting what other people want to hear. Rather than what you feel and believe. "Charlton are 15 points and 10 league places better off than they were after 41 games last season. That is progress, albeit not as much progress as we naturally want, accepting that last season was very poor. Clearly we have been unable to compete with Blackburn and Wigan, and surprisingly even Shrewsbury and Rotherham, who have both had great seasons. Few would deny that some things are still not as they should be at our Club. But to use an old glass-half-full chestnut (and apologies in advance as I'm sure this has been said by others several times already this season...) If back at the beginning of August we were told that after 41 games Charlton would be in 6th place, how many of us would have said "yes, I'll take that"? I will confess I would not have done, as I've repeated in the past on another forum on that nothing less than a top 2 finish would be good enough. But I was saying that with more than a little cynicism. I was not expecting automatic promotion, I was expecting more failure so that I could feel justified and self-righteous and continue to criticise. Now I know I was wrong to feel that way. I would rather hope for a better future now and look like a fool if that hope is dashed again at the Valley on Saturday, than stay away and type 'I told you so' with cynical satisfaction. And it is possible that hope will not be dashed this weekend. We have suffered much disappointment and failure in recent years, but we do not always fail. That is a myth which we fans are perhaps too comfortable with - and not just the sceptics and cynics among us."
Apart from a brief bit of glory under Powell, which most fans quite rightly put into perspective -''3rd Division success'', we have sadly done nothing but fail since Curbs left. Only this morning one fan on Twitter said 'do we need the Championship right now'' Low expectations is a sure sign that things have been bad for some time.
I posted this in response to some very negative and pessimistic earlier posts on in that thread. Surprising though this may sound, I thought the strength of the negativity concerning last night's performance and result was more forthrightly expressed on ITTV than it was here. Seriouslyred had earlier posted a broadly positive message along the same lines as the first part of my post and he was savaged by Reams, who told him he was tired of reading such lines time and again. The only difference between what SR said and what I was saying above is that he has been saying it all season, whereas I have only just begun to see things differently during this past week or two. In several posts recently on this forum I have said essentially the same thing that I have said in the post you have quoted. I don't think it is what people here want to hear from me. I am done with the politics. My faith is in Lee Bowyer and his players, and my belief in what they are trying to do has not been shaken by the mistakes LB might have made while he is learning how to manage a football Club. I am not criticizing anybody else for their opinions on the way things are at CAFC right now, this is just how I feel.
I think we should all give Lardi a bit of space now, he can't keep on explaining his change of mind to everybody... as JM Keynes is often misquoted as saying... "when the facts change, I change my mind" Lardi has exactly the same right!
@lardiman is a good guy, but his defection back to ITTV is the most bizarre conversion since Frank Maloney first tried on a pair of knickers.
Your understanding and patience is appreciated chaps I know that the tone of some of my recent posts probably falls within the popular definition of 'apologist' and I would not be offended if any member wants to say as much. And this isn't some sort of elaborate wind-up at your expense or the folks on ITTV. FHB has said that there isn't a 'party line' on this forum and from my time here so far I know this to be true. Differences in viewpoint or opinion make for a more interesting forum experience I think. So if anybody thinks I'm talking bollocks at any point do let me know, it's never going to be a problem. And I have no plans to leave (rumours of my 'defection' have been greatly exaggerated). But I'll be posting sometimes on ITTV and CL as well. There is plenty of me to spead around.
We all talk bollox, why should you be any different? This forum has the advantage that we tend to tolerate each other's bollox without threats of banning orders etc.
