Match Day Thread Charlton's prospects of staying up

Ahadme is a carthorse, Leaburn looks to be a problem with injuries, now Godden is having an operation and out for around six weeks.
I hope Kelman and Knibbs hit the ground running and after the first ten games have us outside of the bottom three.

 

Ahadme scored two quick goals today against Southend- but I fear that is his level and won’t make the step up to the Championship

 

Our chances of staying up I would put around 60% at present.
And I'm being as optimistic as I can.

Assuming every other factor was equal we would have an 87.5% chance of staying up (21 teams out of 24 will, that's 7 out of 8)

Biggest factor against us:
Inexperience at Championship level. This is going to be a really tough season. I fear we may end up looking like Plymouth did last year.
Plucky triers, but coming up just short enough to lose too many games.

Biggest factors in our favour:
Some decent signings (not stellar, but solid).
And the NJ factor, as seen in the second half of last season. I thought he had zero chance of doing what he did.
If he repeats the feat, we could finish mid-table - mission accomplished

Questions are:
Can NJ repeat his 2024-25 progress at 2nd tier level?
Will he stay for the whole season?

 

66% and not a penny less

 

Bookies have us as probably being relegated . I think we’ll stay up

 

We are staying up say we are staying up. Even though we'll lose twice to Millwall.

 

I’m trying not to think about those two fixtures too much

 

BBC sports pundits predict Charlton will finish 20th this season;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5y2g678k6xo

I'll take that right now

 

Bookies have warmed to us - the podcasts that I’ve listened have all predicted we stay up…

 

Yep I’d take that as well - probably be accused of having low expectations!

 

All depends how all the newbies get to know each others' games.

 

You won't have to worry about the carthorse now that he's off to Stevenage for a season on loan. Hopefully for the sake of our bank balance he'll bang in the goals and we can sell at the end of this loan.

 

Good solid start. Our defence got us promoted, and will keep us up. The recruitment has been the best since SCP, and they should improve as they get used to each other, and to the step up. I think there's a good chance of not only staying up, but finishing mid-table.

 

If the transfer window had just closed I would completely agree.

But it hasn't.

 

Still a long way to go, it's only two games, do not get carried away.
Crawley home last season and 4 months into the season and fans were going ballistic. Things can change quickly.

 

Totally agree.

Keeping Kayne Ramsay is absolutely vital in my opinion. But I think we will as he has 2 games worth of Championship experience, but he easily looks like he could make the step up again.

 

So far I've not seen anything to fear, but Saturday's game will answer a few questions

 

To quote Mr Ridiculous, "let's see where we are after 15 games".

 

We will stay up - I'm 99% certain.

But if we don't, I'll donate £200 to the forum's chosen charity.

 

I'll inbox you my account details.