A 20 goal a season striker

How long will it be before they throw in the towel on promotion this season?
12 weeks maximum.

I doubt if Robinson will even be fired, unless we drift out of mid-table towards the bottom six places.

 

My strong hunch is that Robinson will be gone by October with us shot shy and loitering pointlessly, like Reams in the Millenium Suite.

Jackson will then be made manager and will inherit a forward line of KAG and Novak...

 

Not if he continues the bullshit that the squad is capable of pissing this league and that 3/4 youth players are ready for the step up.
He'll be fine as long as he sticks with RD's main objective - Use the 'sell on" players.

The squad should not be short in a vital department at this stage of the transfer window.

 

The usual LastMinutePanic.com

But don't forget, we are gigantic Charlton & every other club wants to take us for a ride.

 

And the refs are conspiring to red-card our players for no apparent reason, except that we're really really good.

 

I'm starting to think that the Belgians are not serious about promotion.

 

Let's see where we are at the end of the season

 

It could be Robinson's way of pinning the blame on Meire, but he said this morning that Hackett-Fairchild will be getting a lot of games this season.

I still think Robinson is playing the game & shielding the two sh1t bags.

 

Here are two free agent names for you...
Jonathan Benteke
Karim Rossi

Both young with experience of UK football.

 

Robinson won't rock the boat so he can take his pay-off without any fuss when they sack him, and other potential employers won't regard him as a trouble maker.
Can't blame him for that, but it doesn't stack up with him trying to paint himself as a fans' hero.

He's on a hiding to nothing this season and he knows it. No more quality signings, not enough from what we already have to get anywhere near the top 2, and the bookies giving us no better than a 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 chance of even making the top six.
In short, another summer of great expectations and very little actually delivered.

Fans mugged off again; some of them even being invited to the Valley to have lies told to their faces.

 

Some fans refuse to accept the fact that they're being lied to, because the facts are that many Charlton people were fed the exact same lies many times before these "set up" propaganda meetings, last season.

KR repeatedly goes on about how he's "Mr honesty", but he's just like all the others before him, nothing more than an RD & KM mouthpiece -
"We need a striker to replace Ajose"
"Tony will only go if it's right for the club and we have a replacement".

He was quick to bring up the need for a striker after the defeat at Plymouth, but conveniently forgot that excuse when the subject of a new striker came up in todays press conference.

A 'money signing' in January never materialised, and now we're getting nothing but bullshit about our striker options.
#BunchofPhoneys

 

The f****** would not know the truth if it smacked them in the face.

 

Let us ask ourselves why we need a new striker or even two as some state.

KR plays 4-2-3-1 and has quietly acquired the midfield to do this - so only one striker on the pitch. Are we saying that the formation is wrong? It certainly doesn't appear that way from what I've seen. So then, are we now saying that Magennis isn't good enough? That's harsh given that his return plus Pearce and Dasilva has been a key part of suffering just one defeat in eight.

We have depth in midfield and defence which is a lot better than this time last season. The fact that Marshall and Reeves are unavailable doesn't seem to affect us although it does restrict the cover on the bench. Surely the question remains as to whether we can convert enough chances. We certainly did in the friendly vs Ipswich but we've only scored three in competitive fixtures.

Judging by the current team and shifting players out, the last two windows have been a success. Dasilva, Forster-Caskey, Reeves, Fosu and Clarke have all been introduced by KR and are universally rated by the fans. He has also blooded Aribo and Dijksteel. Right now it simply isn't clear whether Konsa is being protected due to transfer interest or that KR doesn't rate him enough for the first XI - but that's an aside. The real question is whether the midfield is good enough. Fast enough, precise enough in the passing and good enough at honing in on goal and then finishing. Elsewhere, Mundell made reference to an article about the quality of chances. Anyone reading that will have seen that there is a trend in the top leagues across Europe to shoot from closer in, i.e., restrict the long shots and play to get closer to the box.

There is no bad luck involved - the club appears to be taking a calculated gamble right now. We have decent cover in every position except for Magennis. If he is injured or fails to find form then the question is whether the club changes course? We've tried for Mavididi and the irony is that he has only played some 50 minutes for Preston in four games. And we have tried for Taylor.

The window is still open until end August, so the reason I bang on about the game tomorrow is that we will all have a chance to see what the current squad can do. Call it sitting on the fence but it certainly isn't attacking the club nor supporting their choices re. the squad as at 31st August. Why not? Because we haven't arrived there yet and many things can change over the next fortnight. On 1st September there are four months of football and 18-20 league games before the next window.

Some will attack the club over the current situation and that is their right. They want to get their comments in early and they clearly represent a certain constituency. It is ironic that some of those posters undermine their own position by attacking everything that moves as well as citing decisions made three years ago! Again, perhaps we might judge matters on what we see tomorrow for this team and this division has absolutely nothing to do with the January 2014 window. Nor is the signing of Bulot, Gudmundsson, Vetokele and the rest over summer 2014 relevant for they have since left and we are in a different place.

This has been posted before but the board, the management team and the performance analysts will all watch the game and they will have the advantage of advanced analysis available within a few hours of the final kick off. This doesn't replace football expertise but it does supplement what people see during the game. The number of chances created (and conceded) together with the quality of those chances and the finishing by the five or six who have a crack at goal is what counts. Bringing in one or two players isn't going to change the finishing by the midfield five.

We scored six vs Ipswich but only one goal in two league games to date - that is surely too small a dataset to form any conclusions? Add a game or two and we will still not have complete information. But it will be decision time for the club and we will then see what happens and how it is spun.

On a different note, none of this is about guaranteeing promotion because you can't! What we all want the club to do is enhance our chances of making the top six by developing the squad and keeping a consistent selection policy. I'm sure we all want to see more quality in the first XI. Fitness, consistency and good coaching has to be the key and maybe that's why we've seen 12 players leave the club since November?

For sure we should bring in a loan if there is an obvious weak link. Right now who can predict whether we will finish on 65 or 75 points? And who can predict the score and individual performances for tomorrow? And the next five home games? As long as we keep winning at home the crowd will be happy, whatever is said on social media.

What we can do is support our team tomorrow and support our manager in his quest to improve the squad. I expect there will be a vibrant debate on Sunday on message boards whatever the result and performance. And one group or another will be saying I told you so! All I can state is that for these last eight games (and the friendlies) we have been consistently good against weaker sides from the bottom of League 1 and the top of League 2. But we've not seen this latest version of the team against a top ten side and, due to the fixture list, we won't see that until mid September by which time the die is cast, at least until end December.

Read more: http://intothevalley.proboards.com/thread/21519/kr-guarantee-striker-signed?page=3#ixzz4q7m3o8lV

 

I think we ought to wait to see what happens.

 

That takes me back.

'Wait and see' is just a wordy way of saying nothing at all.
Last summer we waited and we saw...a wasted season in the third division, our team unable to even rise into the top 10 for nine months.
There is almost no evidence to suggest this coming season will be much better.

September 1st will come around, then it will be "give the squad a chance to gel, let's see where we are after 15 games".
Then "let's see where we are at the end of the January window".

Based on what I have seen and heard this summer I'm happy to state the following right now;

1: Our Squad as it stands now is not even close to being good enough to achieve automatic promotion.

2: It is very unlikely that the squad will be strengthened significantly before the transfer window closes.

3: Unless there is radical strengthening in January (extremely unlikely) Charlton Athletic will not gain promotion this season.

No fence sitting, no waiting and seeing. Just a forecast drawn from experience of the way Charlton Athletic has suffered under RD and KM.
Indeed I would go so far as to say

4. Charlton Athletic will not be promoted back to the Championship until after Roland Duchatelet sells the Club.

The current regime puts on a convincing show of being a competent and capable business, surrounding itself with all the trappings of client hospitality and the coffee shop culture of sharp suited success.
But the reality of what has happened to our Football Club - and what is still happening to it - exposes them as a bunch chancers and spivs, who love to talk the talk but do not have the first f*****g clue what they are doing.

 

Something will turn up..........................................

 

but where's the fun in that?

 

Let's see where we are...

 

Let's just enjoy watching the development of these Academy players.

 

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