"The vision of a break-even Championship Club with far greater media and commercial revenue is still intact..." I'll have some of what he's on
If he wasn’t such an obvious WUM, you could spend all day ripping that comment apart. Anyone can have a vision about anything. Remember 8-8-8 (which Hawtrey was orgasmic about) - that was also a “vision” of the SMT. We don’t hear much about it now ..because they haven’t given us 8 elite players (or even 1).
"Many of these players are on long term deals and aren't too bad - we know this as we've been watching them all year!" An earlier offering from Ridiculous today, proof if it was ever needed, that he will suffer any old s***.
Unfortunately “aren’t too bad” isn’t good enough in the third tier of football…for normal fans at least.
His latest offering - “Sucess” isn’t reaching the Play Offs in L1 - that’s failure. Success is promotion. Wycombe Wanderers are currently 17 points clear of us. He should be called out & challenged on these absurd posts - as he was on CL - but he cries to the Mods when he is. “The revenue will continue to grow “ - real La La Land stuff now. Complete fiction. One decent attendance this season, heavily massaged by a giveaway to 8,000 plus You Tubers. Yet it was widely reported that only 5,500 Charlton bums were on seats at the Valley on Tuesday night - along with our 13th place in the League, the only other KPI that really matters in exposing Methven & the SMT’s abject failure. Attendances - down Revenue - down League position - embarrassing Perhaps we might want to all consider purchasing a half time beverage, to mitigate this ?
He’s a low energy WUM. I genuinely don’t understand what he gets out of following Charlton - he’s a bean counter, with so little real passion for the club & its situation. Football is a competitive sport, and clubs (particularly in London) have to compete for how people spend their leisure pounds. My point is that CAFC does not exist in a vacuum, although it clearly does to the Charles Hawtrey-lookalike. The 5,500 attendance last week v Crawley really should have been a giant red flag to even this most flaccid of WUMs… S hit owners + s hit manager + unattractive football = ruin.
He likes to use the word competitive. I'm surprised he's not used the line of 'not everybody can be successful'.
The latest waffle from Charles. His comments are strange. Some of us are old to enough to remember last Summer, when Hawtrey was euphoric that his SMT prioritised “Dr Will” and a chicken hut in the car park over replacing Alfie May. It was all part of a fantastic strategy that proved “the grown ups were now in charge” don’t forget
Opening paragraph she gives her first opinion ever, the final paragraph she reverts to type. Is she a troll or a wum..................or can you have both?
What a relief that the mediocre football strategy and execution has an upside If you extracted all the charm from the Dad's Army characters SR would closely resemble Sergeant Wilson, to Global's Captain Mainwaring.
Hawtrey has had a pop at Auckland Addick, who has always struck me as a reasonable guy. “Perhaps we should wait another 20 games before criticising Mannion” blah blah yawn yawn. Ignore the WUM bore Auks …I’ve seen more energy in a Poundland AA battery.
"As you state, everyone can see that we need more creative talent so as to play a decent 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 diamond. And that we also require the right level of coaching and management to address the creative side too!" Why does Ridiculous continue to post formations? Whilst having his mars bar and tea at half-time, can you really see him saying we should change formation to overcome a 2-0 deficit?
To listen to Seriously waffling on last night, you’d think Gavin Carter was Elon Musk. He (SR / Hawtrey) is obsessed with process, and reviewing / judging at some mythical date in the future. But he lacks the intellectual curiosity to follow through on many of his own bullsh1t theories. For instance - he raved about the SMT signing his “Dr Will” from Brighton. Remember? The sports scientist who was going to examine in depth our chronic historical injury problems, and put an end to them. Our injuries this season and their attrition rate on the squad, have been worse than ever. But SR just airbrushes that bit, because it doesn’t fit in with his bean counter narrative that quote “the grown ups are now in charge”. He’s all process, no outcomes. I don’t know why he keeps talking about January, apart from the fact he does it every year. It’s the same clowns in charge, with the same budget = the same outcomes.
As has been said on numerous occasions, he looks to the future and does not give opinions of the now. He can write a book and say nothing. A very strange individual.
Posted today 'in response' to the Methven video regards May. Wtf has his answer got to do with it? "This isn't new. Nor is the story around Dobson being offered terms he didn't feel met his own valuation. When we review where we were at the beginning of 2024, it really isn't about players who left over the summer. For most welcomed the released list. The problem has been the summer recruitment, the initial 5-3-2, and the absence of any evidence of coaching improvement into the squad. This won't be the only story spun as Gavin Carter becomes the latest to take on the challenge of defining and executing strategy. Over on the other channel there's a lengthy discussion about the Valley lease as well as football mediocrity. This is what always happens when we no longer have top six chances". ***** The final line he'll soon change if we win our next two games!
Of course it’s about players his SMT released. They released / sold our three best players from a side that finished 16th in League One. Have they properly replaced CBT, Dobson & May ? No.
