Is starting to appear on twitter after today's game. I think it's a ridiculous suggestion to get rid of a guy that won us 101 points a couple of months ago. Some of our fans...
Powell needs an injection of cash. Many of our players are League One and no better. But, then again, he brought them to the club. It is his mess - save for the injuries - and he needs to sort it.
Really? I had a look on #cafc and couldn't see this. Good title for the thread though Powell stays for me still, but for himself he really needs to turn around home form. Like last season, away form is better than at home, but away points are harder to come by in this division. Hopefully he can find something that works against Cardiff and throughout the season and all the people who said beating Boro would be easier than Cardiff were wrong.
The most depressing thing about cafc is that we have a fair proportion of fans that can best be described as dickheads. They give Powell a knighthood one season, then turn on him like some rabid dog the next. If you look on CL a lot of these rats are picking over his bones already. If you read between the lines the undercurrent thread is more alarming than a general lack of team support. They want him to fail. They turn every defeat into an anti board thread, it's the boards fault that our injury list is so long, it's the boards fault that our defence is crap. They want to run the club and could not give a toss if we were in the 2nd division as long as they have their snivelling snouts in the cafc trough. The club are losing so what? It's early days and the fight has gone barely three rounds, there's a fight out there that supporters have responsibilities to continue rather than crap on a decent manager and a board that delivered. Sometimes it's the fans that are not fit to wear the shirt
When we were being turned over today, I looked down at CP and considered him to be hapless and out of his depth. I felt bad for thinking such things then, and feel even worse now. In the heat of the moment, I feel vitriolic, but once the dust settles, I remember all the good things CP has done for our club. I will support him fully for as long as it takes, but I will also defend my right to criticise the manager when he continues to make bad calls. But, booing and taking to Twitter is not my style. Those methods of critique are strictly for knobheads.
I am not sure how much of the decision to sign a player or not is down to our manager. But let's assume you are right and CP brought them all in. He was given enough money to build a team to get out of Div One in two seasons. We all agreed that was the top priority. Indeed, the only priority. He did it in one season and he did it in style. There was nothing fluky about it. He also built a team good enough to survive in the Championship, which we will do. He wasn't given anything like enough money to buy a team of good Championship standard players guaranteed to challenge for a promotion place. He would have needed at least 4 million to do that. Once we get Fuller, Kermorgant and Wiggins back we will be comfortable and finish clear of the relegation spots. If the owners want better than that they will have to invest at least 2 million more. That is an enormous SAVE FOR. We are not Manchester Utd or Chelsea with two complete first teams. Losing the above three players is a massive blow. Enough to make the difference between our present position and halfway in the table. In our last 8 games we have won 2, drawn 3 and lost 3. Not great, but not relegation form, and we will do better once three of our best players return. I might only really blame CP for two things: Persisting with Jackson when hopelessly unfit or out of form. It is like playing with ten men every week. I cannot believe Hollands could be worse, but if so I would rather see a junior come in. And not selling Stephens for a million plus. We could have bought two or three players to solve our midfield problems with the money. But I am not sure how much say CP had in that. Some of his experiments have been a little strange, but not long ago we were blaming him for being too conservative. And he picked "funny" line-ups against Leeds and Wolves and got good results. I never adhere to these extreme views. I shall steer a middle course and call him "Sir Rabid Doctor".
How do you defend CP playing Kerkar at left-back? We would have been better with Jackson at left-back, or resorting to Solly filling in again. As for the Leeds and Wolves matches: we played ugly against two ugly teams. The performances were turgid and uninspired. The opposition were largely useless, as were we. There was no way in the world we could beat Boro with today's line-up. Regardless of the injuries, we have enough to put together a side capable of winning at home. But CP cannot assemble that side - at the moment, that is...
I will never call for the Good Doctor to go! I can not agree with Kerkar at left back, but then again, I am not at training during the week! We were out played yesterday (except for the first ten minutes) but TGD did not reflect this in his post match interview which I think is a mistake! Honesty is the best policy.... we were lucky to get out of that match by 1-4 it could have been 1-6 or 1-7 easily! One thing I would say is ..... Hamer out!!!! A freekick from near the halfway line into our 6 yard box and he decides to say on his line rather than coming to catch it...... PATHETIC!!!!
I don't think I can fully defend Powell but when your team is ravaged by injuries, and your players are out of sorts you make do and mend. Some times it works sometimes it backfires. When you lose, you try something different. What you don't do is panic. What I like in Powell is a backbone, he has balls. I don't see individual mistakes as the managers fault. I don't see the over optimistic expectations of some fans can be laid at his door. I certainly don't see it as the boards fault either. It's a glitch, a bad run, not helped by the puddle jumpers and doom mongers that frequent the stands, who pee their pants at the first sign of trouble. By all means criticise the manager, question his wisdom, (and to a man everyone on this site has been balanced and reasonable) but don't do a CL and act like Chelsea and twist it against the board because you can't get your own way. Back the man, he took us this far, stick with it. And I think Hamer is a prize dick. I would not be too sad if we went with another goalie.
I think Powell is a very good manager and is clearly very passionate about the club but not at the expense of managerial talent. As a Newcastle fan seeing his unstable club begin to plant roots, I really hope Charlton and your fans stick by Powell. Stability is what you need and given time to shape the team into what he wants it to be, I think CP will be pushing to get you back in the prem within a few seasons.
Spot on. Stability is what's needed. Curbs was given time and forged the best spell in our recent history. You can come again SDOB!
SDOKB I don't suppose you want to pop over to another site do you and try and inject some backbone into a bunch of real bedwetters.
Surprised at the negative comments towards Hamer, I thought he was one of our best performers yesterday. True he was positioned poorly to be lobbed for one of their goals, but he kept out 3 or 4 other shots and seemed to be desperate to spare us as much embarrassment as he could.
For the first time in beat part of a decade we are finishing higher than we did the season before. Powell is overseeing this. Comparing league positions with the year before he is our best manager since curbs
Don't think there's any doubting that really. He's also still very young for a manager, so given time could end up a far better manager than Curbs is/was. He needs to sort out his tactics and substitutions a bit. He's improved a lot since last season I personally think, given his willingness to experiment with various formations and player positions this season, as well as occasionally having used a couple of subs earlier than in the 80th minute of the game. Sadly a lot of the time, he's made mistakes with these experiments and substitutions but at least he's trying. Chris Powell, just like our players (and in a sense, some of our fans) is still going through a steep learning curve, he's developing as a manager and should be given time. Leaving aside performances on the pitch for a moment too, he's the first manager us fans have been able to identify with since Curbs (and in some sense, many fans couldn't identify with Curbs either). He loves this club, and it hurts him as much as us when we lose. I'd rather see us lose/go down with Powell still in charge, than with some journeyman manager at the helm, or worse, the likes of Dennis Wise. Altogether now..."Chrissy Powell's Red Army"
