Feels more like being left behind, to be honest. At the beginning of season 2014-15 after Riga was gone I felt that I was no longer joined to the Club, on an emotional level at least (for want of a better term). We were on the same road and traveling in the same direction. But now separate, almost like strangers, rather than together as one. What had once been a magical thing - my match-day routine, going to games at the Valley and feeling part of something really great - had lost its magic. First it became something I continued to do in the hope the magic would return soon. Then it became something I did out of anger and what was happening during the relegation season. Eventually it became something I did because it was expected. Like an old habit that felt comfortable enough but lacked much meaning anymore. By that time I was going to matches alone, because the two mates I had once gone to every home game with for years, had both given up. One out of zealous opposition to RD, the other out of gradual apathy and a decline in his health. I have my ST bought for next season but I don't know how many home games I will be in the mood to go to watch. It will depend on circumstances at the time I think. Meanwhile I'm waiting for the day when the Club has a new owner and everything will begin again (at least for me). I'm waiting for the magic to return. It seems a crazy thing to admit, but - for me anyway - all of the good and admirable things Lee Bowyer has managed to achieve on the pitch this season have not brought that old feeling of magic back to my match-day walks to the Valley. I'm aware that many other Charlton fans feel differently. They seem able to enjoy the success the team has had this season, to relish it and be fully part of it just like I used to feel in the old days. I envy them, but I would be lying to myself if I said I felt that way too. And I have tried to lie to myself, for a long time. But if I don't feel they way I used to, then that's the way it is. I can't help it and I'm tired of denying it.
I watched some Welling games at the start of the Season. Gave up my Welling Season ticket and got a Charlton one. About 17 matches. Including the cup games and the friendly at the start of the Season.
No... your absence yesterday only hurt yourself... the match was always going to be a sell out … the Belgian got his share of the money …. you missed the chance of going on the pitch... I can understand it if you are depriving the Belgian of matchday receipts but that was never going to be the case yesterday.
The way I look at it is this.... perhaps, an outside chance I agree... but perhaps.. there is an organisation out there looking to buy a British Club, their agent could have been looking at the TV yesterday and thinking to himself, "umm that Charlton has potential if they can attract a crowd like that to a L1 play off game, I may look into this?" We were on the TV with a far larger audience than a normal L1 game... the fans had an opportunity to help sell the Club..... and I think we did that last night … you on the other hand had your usual Friday night at a pub
