So exactly how excited are you getting now for the new season? Me, it's like christmas and a summer holiday in Gran Canaria all rolled into one You know what to do AllHell
Hell, yeah... Saturday is going to provide enough to banter on about for seasons to come... 15 new signings? 2 former Cherries? If the 2 new guys have been brought in as regulars, does that leave only Jackson and BWP as former first-teamers in our regular line up (albeit I expect to see Waggy RW on Saturday in Green's absence)? You know what, though... offer me a dull 1-0 win and I'll take it now.
Hmm... don't really want to vote on this poll. I'm sooo excited, but I'd rather attend the Gemma photo-shoot...
Cant wait i`m soooooo excited....saturday cant come quick enough i`ve even taken to snifing me season ticket....mmmm football
Had to go for the Gemma Arterton playboy shoot. But i'm so excited that i'll be in the Valley Cafe by 11.30ish, Con Club by 12ish, Ground by 2.30ish.
I have just off the phone to the ticket office and purchased another four seats adjacent to my season ticket seat. I have managed to recruit four new under 11s to the cause - my daughter and three of her friends. Hopefully fans for the future! The car will be positively brimming on Saturday morning.
That's going to cost you in the Superstore Ponders 4 off kids shirts? must be £100 without any names on the back!
And you have to buy them the shirts to guarantee they will stay loyal to Charlton. Oh Ponders, the things you do for CAFC!
Ha! The deal is that their parents can pay for any extras. I don't mind paying for the first tickets and supplying the transport and supervision. I am hoping that our exciting brand of football and the atmosphere it will create should be enough to guarentee return visits. All in the great cause of CAFC.
I'm off on holiday this Saturday...a cruise round the med with Mrs K.....first thing on my mind though is....will the tv on board support the late footy show on ITV. I bloody hope so!!
In the South of France on Saturday but will be glued to the box for any news whilst drinking in the sunshine. Very exited for the season and I think the fact that CP is willing to upset a few players (no.44! ) shows that he is the manager of the club not just a returning hero. Clearly knows what he wants and will quietly demand it. As a supporter haven't felt this much anticipation in years.
This is brilliant PEA, but if we hadn't naused up that sell-out game against Exeter, you wouldn't have to be working half as hard at it...
Yeah, I took a small crowd to the Exeter game as well, Tewks. But I don't think it was the football that put the youngsters off going again. It is more likely they were terrified of my numerous outbursts of Powell related vitriol. I know, I am ashamed.
You're a glutton for punishment, that's for sure. But the thing is, if you don't get them young, you may never get them at all. I didn't see my first game until I was 14, relatively late - most 14 year olds now, if they're not regularly going to their local ground would, I suspect, pick one of the top two or three Premiership sides and start 'supporting' them.
Too true, Tewks. The armchair experience of watching football is a pleasant one, but the armchair experience of 'supporting' a team nust be fruitless and dull. I used to talk regularly with a neighbour's son who 'supported' Man Utd, but had never attended a match before - and I mean any football match. So one Saturday I took him up the road to watch Barnet play Cambridge (Charlton were playing Fulham on the Sunday), and he loved every minute of it. He is now a fully paid up Bee and travels to all of the away matches. Down came the Man Utd posters and up went every bit of Barnet material he could find. We met up before last season's cup games and he asked me very quickly not to mention the 'dark old days' in front of his orange and black clad cohorts. I kept his shameful secret. Surely going to the football and getting behind a relatively small team must always be more rewarding than pretending to follow one of the big boys?
