2015 Calender

I always buy it but this year the thought of seeing Tucudean Bulot Moussa Nego and Polish Pete didn't appeal to me. Even Gudmundsson and , whisper it, Igor, are having a dip. Buyens will be gone, Bob may well be gone, I don't feel I know who will be here and who won't, so it's a No from me.

 

That post would have got you a life ban on ITTV.

 

it is true though. say they make wilson Mr October, everyone knows he wont be here next year, why would you spend £2.99 of your hard earned money on something that is only useful up till 75% or 9 months?

 

Too late! ITTV has already received a life ban from me!

 

Is Nego really in the new calendar, FHB? And Polish Pete?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

 

I admit I don't actually know. I had a quick glance at it last night in the shop, saw Wilson on the cover, and thought "Well he won't be here long, Bob doesn't rate him". I'm struggling to think of too many proper Charlton players who will be with us all year. And I couldn't find the calender on the OS shop either, so I did jump to conclusions which might be wrong.

 

Unless it contains months dedicated to Sir Chris Powell, Alex Dyer, Yann Kermorgant, Diego Poyet, Michael Morrison, Nathan Jones, Paul Hart, Lawrie Wilson and Dorian Devite, I will not be buying it. Simon Church, Scott Wagstaff and Bradley Pritchard are not deal-breakers, though. I wouldn't want anyone to think I am eccentric.

 

I asked this question on CL and didn't get an adequate reply. What constitutes Proper Charlton? Do you have to play a number of games for Charlton? Do you have to be born in the London Borough of Greenwich? Do you have to have supported the club for any length of time? Does it apply to Foreign players?

This expression is trotted out ad nauseum by football fans and I have no idea what the criteria is for being Proper.

 

If the players are pictured in the current kit, I would'nt touch it. That shirt is offensive.

Proper Charlton is more a set of things or ideals than a definition ****Plum. You need to be more Zen.

For me it includes Derek Hales, Mike Flanagan, Alan Curbishley, Shirt sponsors going bankrupt, Clive Mendonca, The Valley in all shapes and forms, not playing in Europe, Jimmy Seed, paul Walsh, Garry Nelson, the Red Red Robin and sarf lundun accents that insist on calling us Char'un.
It does NOT include Dowie, Defoe, JFH and the new kit.

 

When Louis Armstrong was asked to define jazz, he said "Man, if you have to ask, you'll never know"

 

Nicely dodged. To me it is a hackneyed trite expression that is meaningless.

 

That makes it all clear.

 

Should put Solly on every page... Bob's obviously told him to play in every position and he's a 'true' Charlton boy, where's the problem?

 

I'm stocking up on as many calendars as I can find. Rumour has it that their days are numbered.

 

Don't agree. To me 'proper Charlton' means 2 things: 1. British. 2. Always put a shift in for the shirt, regardless of ability.

Allan Simonsen was a great player, but not 'proper Charlton'. Steve Gritt was not a great player, but will always be 'proper Charlton'.

 

So Eddie Firmani wasn't Proper Charlton? There are a number of Foreign players that put in a shift for Charlton. There was an Icelandic fellow called Herman something or other who always put in a proper Shift. It is a pity he is Foreign and so he doesn't qualify for being called proper. John Hewie was born in South Africa but qualified for Scotland, I suppose that allows him to qualify, for the Proper monicker.

What a load of Proper crap.

 

Rare for me to defend our bigoted friend, but in Firmani's playing days (in which RV remains pickled) "British" would have included "British Empire" and "British Commonwealth".

I would only ask Vol, why "British" and not "English"? Whatever your political stance, football-wise they have always been separate nations (apart from the Olympic nonsense).

It is harder to take overseas players to our hearts, not for Vol's xenophobic reasons, but because you can never be sure they won't abruptly up sticks if they hit a dodgy patch, whereas home players have more things to bind them (language, family, friends, property and investments) and make changing clubs less worthwhile. Of course, that hardly matters now all players change clubs so often anyway.

 

Sorry, but Kermit was more playing for the shirt than any except possibly Jackson in the last few years, he's proper Charlton, as was Kishishev, Jonatan J, Deano... don't get this at all

 

Don't be stupid eddie, FFS. I am just giving my opinion, which I am perfectly entitled to do.

Not interested in foreign players in English football full stop. The vast majority have taken the piss with wages, blocked British talent from coming through, or been average journeymen (Roland....)