This appears to boil down to CAST claiming or strongly implying that the Club was being very badly run (except strictly on the footballing side) during the Premiership years, but our relative success and stability on the pitch allowed that financial mismanagement to be hidden from fans until the footballing wheels came off following the departure of Curbs. Cash & Jimenez were planning in the end to split the Club from the Valley and move Charlton Athletic out. A fate that is now coming to pass anyway. And that Richard Murray (more or less) saved the Club at massive personal expense? Maybe that is completely wide of the mark. But was Murray not part of the alleged bad running of the Club during the Premiership years? And does it really matter now? We know the board let the Club and the fans down badly during and after the departure of Curbishley. Ultimately every misfortune that has befallen us since is down to them. If that betrayal and relegation had its roots in years of complacency and bad management I would not be at all surprised. One way or another the board or some members of it wasted all the hard work done during the late 1980's and throughout the 1990's to restore Charlton Athletic, after decades of slow decline and then years of instability. And we were restored. At the turn of the Millennium CAFC had every chance to make itself a top flight Club for a generation to come. Now that's all gone.
Methven has done another podcast While such events will always excite the Roy Croppers in the fanbase, it’s notable how he won’t open himself up to an unvetted, gloves off Q&A with the wider fanbase. My politely drafted but highly critical questioning about his competence last week at the Q&A fell at the first hurdle. There’s a basic truth in football, that you get what you pay for. You cannot seek to cut costs by as much as £6m per annum as stated… and fund a competitive football team. Perhaps we might consider purchasing a half time beverage, whilst we contemplate that ?
11,149 tonight This will make it 8,000 bums on seats. So much for a winning team bringing the fans back.
"Finding a better 10 should be treated as a separate challenge which might be addressed with a week to go, or may have to wait until the summer, if they can't attract the right player now". ****** Ridiculous at his best, not giving an opinion and stating the obvious, hole.
"It's very hard to predict the exact total at this stage seeing as Leyton Orient are flying and we're not far behind. Opta Analyst now suggest Stockport and Leyton Orient to finish on 72.5 points in 5th and 6th with us in 8th on 70. How much do we believe that we can repeat our last ten games over the next ten? Two points per game from here on in will give us our best finish in five seasons!" **** On CL yesterday, wtf is Opta Analyst?!
A “very solid” January transfer window , opines low energy Crombie model Charles Hawtrey. In reality - Scott has spent the whole of January trying to shift off the books players he signed the year before. Edun, Potts, Taylor and now A Campbell - all signed on the Technical Director’s watch ? #NoAccountability
A rare good poster on ITTV this afternoon (West Stand), challenging the cosy low ambition consensus of Hawtrey & Co. Typically for SR, he quickly became petulant when challenged. He really doesn’t enjoy his daily WUM’ing being challenged. It interrupts his low energy artistic flow. Nor am I sure why the Global Moderator rushed to the part time Crombie model’s defence ?? It’s long before time he was called out. Why do we have to wait til Monday night to declare this a crap window, as Global states ?
Ridiculous does like being challenged, I am still waiting for him to reply to my pm to him on Charlton Life.
"Great signing as we all know that this is where we needed strengthening / more depth". ***** How can this be a great signing with his (non)appearance record, coupled with he would not have seen the prick play. Classic Ridiculous bull****.
International pharmaceutical companies have today announced an immediate plan to scrap the production of the sleeping pill Mogadon. A spokesman for the pharmaceutical industry stated: Sales of Mogadon have been declining for some time now. Collectively we have agreed that our sleeping pill can no longer compete with our main market rival in the sector, a post from Seriously Red on ITTV.
@lardiman You asked me earlier what our current odds for promotion are . I replied 11/1. Forget that - Charles Hawtrey has seen a new website, which gives us a 31% chance of reaching the Play Offs * (* ordinary fans are content just to look at the league table).
Blimey, if you could insulate British homes with the verbal cotton wool that guy comes out with, nobody would ever be cold in Winter again. He has said absolutely nothing there. Or not.
He’s started a poll on ITTV on where we will finish in the league. Most fans have replied “mid table” ..which he doesn’t like, so he’s replied perhaps we shouldn’t judge yet ….he started the poll ?
We had four months for our recruitment team to scout and target a wide man that Jones had asked for…. We also had a month in which to bring our target/s in but failed…..other clubs didn’t seem to have that much difficulty nailing their targets… ***Aucklands post, and below the 'reply' from Ridiculous "Why allow the perfect be the enemy of the good?" Voltaire One can criticise everything that happens / hasn't happened within a framework consisting endless comparisons to Birmingham City or whoever is in the top three. Or instead we might compare to where we were when NJ took over and again next July... evaluate current chances as well as a path towards promotion next season. One more window, yes. But why frame the games to come with all these tinges of regret?! By mid March we will have played the competition for the top six so we'll have more clarity around where we are, as well as how we are playing. The idea that we could have significantly improved our play off chances during the last window is open for discussion. But let's not delude ourselves that automatic promotion was possible this time. That requires form of two points per game. We're now hitting that, but we were nowhere near for the first 15 games. So perhaps we should enjoy the next few months. And once the season draws to a close we might then discuss who is leaving, whether serious bids will come in for certain players, and what we might need to further improve next season. **** Total guff, that is just another ramble about nothing and stating the obvious. No opinion whatsoever. Just my perspective.
Why do we compare ourselves to Birmingham City, asks the low energy, part time Crombie model Charles Hawtrey (Seriously Red) Maybe it’s because they are 15 points clear at the top of the league, and have owners who spend money and are serious about getting promotion
