Two points off bottom, 5 from safety, 5 wins all season, arguably our best two players sold and replaced by players that nobodies ever heard off and would only be worthwhile on a scrabble board and to top it all, a manager with all the fighting qualities of a 98 year old nun with dementia. Things are not looking good. Can we stay up? Do we deserve to be a championship side anyway, I cannot see us getting out of this, we may do but not with CP in charge.
I personally feel we've made too many changes in such a short space of time to stay up. I don't think we'll find ourselves massively away from whoever is 21st for the remainder of the season, but we have had a massive disruption, and with constant uncertainty with players and the managers contract situation - it's a big ask. We need to get a minimum of 3 quality loans in before the end of next week. The fixture pile up also makes for depressing reading.
We're about to go on a run of four straight wins, it'll all be fine. (Anyone seen my medication? Been days since I took some)
Looking at our remaining fixtures I can't see where we're going to get the points needed to stay up. Even when we take the lead, instead of gaining in confidence we sit back and invite the opposition to attack, and that doesn't just apply this season either. A managerial change might work, it might not, but I suspect we'll find out quite soon.
I know its always better having points on the board rather than games in hand yet the fact that Millwall / Doncaster / Barnsley / Yeovil and Sheff Wed have all been playing and failing to win must give the players a bit of confidence... i.e. had those teams won their games of late then we could have really been adrift which would be a massive punch in the gut yet now the players can look at the table and see there is a slight bit of hope and hopefully they'll take it
Can't see us staying up. The squad has now proved itself to be inadequate, and while seeing players digging in to scrap it out (Pritch?) can be heartening, for me, there has never been enough quality in this side, and CP has a Pardew-like tendency to fiddle about with winning formations, helplessly jamming square pegs into tiny round holes. I hoped for a much better january window, and while I think some of the players we've got may work out in the future, we needed to get decent players in then (Massives, Donny and Millwall did'nt pfaff about the way we have, and they're still recruiting loanees, while we appear to be dithering about). All very uninspiring.
No probably not, but... We will enter league 1 in a dame site better state than we left it! The medium term future looks very bright, the short term grim and god knows about the long term! Imo the medium term looks brighter than at any time since curbs left.
My only consolation is there's a fair number of points to be found in our last 7 matches... some real big games including 4 very winnable home games. Only Brighton away in that run where you think 'I'd take a point'...
Well we might not have the jacobs but we've got the crackers on the board (I appreciate this doesn't make sense). Powell's allegedly been offered a new deal (Telegraph Twitter says so).
Yes, my bro has text me this news tonight as well. No idea where he has got it from but he expects the new deal to be announced tomorrow. Could just be garbage though.
We had a very weak squad before we sold Alnwick, Stephens and Yann - three of our better performers this season. Once again Charlton fans have bought a pig in a poke.
The question is- how many Charlton fans are going to keep turning up at all these home games, week in, week out, when they have to watch the away fans celebrating yet another 3 points at 5 o'clock? I suggest Roland comes along himself to find out what this experience is like. After a while you get a bit punchy with it all.
