So many things he says just don't add up, but ultimately he has been shat on, as is the way with this ownership. Honestly can't see us getting anyone better, not under this lot anyway.
Presumably it will be Johnnie Jackson next if KR gets the bullet. I know some of us have differing views on JJ, but I am not looking forward to seeing him stepping up to be lied to and let down by the regime which hid behind him at public meetings in 2015.
Given that the requirement of Robinson was never promotion or on field success, why would the Belgians sack him? His remit was to place Academy players like Lookman and Konsa in the shop window, which he has done.
I suppose it depends on how bad things get. If Charlton slip into the bottom half of the table and the anti-regime chanting begins again at the Valley, they may decide to give KR the push - or he might even walk away of his own accord (if perhaps another strugglng club offers him a job). Unlikely perhaps, but not impossible.
KR thinks mouthing fans platitudes will keep them on side. He was at it again after yesterday’s loss. The bottom line is his managerial record over the last 15 games has been extremely average, even allowing for the poor standard. At the end of the day, he is being outclassed by the likes of Scunthorpe and Shrewsbury.
Indeed. Even when SR includes the last five games of the 2016-17 season, his stats for KR's performance don't glow quite as much as they used to. Our current manager now has a marginally poorer win ratio than Theo Foley. Only Russell Slade's pitiful record now prevents Robinson from being Charlton's worst performing 3rd tier manager in 90 years.
A new manager will not appease fans, especially now that fans know RD doesn't fully back his managers. We've gone past the stage where a new manager could make a difference.
I take your point. Most fans would be reluctant to turn their frustration directly on Johnnie Jackson - at least for a while I think. But any new manager will be unable to restore much positivity once the crowd decides it can't take any more and wants to stick it to RD, KM and the regime. Only a spectacular turnaround in form might bring them round, but given all the circumstances that will be virtually impossible.
I think it's gone beyond that. Form results, even promotion, yes some fans will come back, but sadly thousands won't, just like the 40's & 50's crowds didn't come back in the 70's, due to lack of ambition. Predictability does become a killer - It's repeated misery, and as a young supporter recently said to me..."what's the point"
If I were the owner, I would offer Curbs a king's ransom to return, with Chris Powell as his assistant. The euphoria around the place would propel us up the table, the attendances would double (perhaps treble), and we'd finally feel like our old club had returned. A dream, I know, but romance is all I have left to cling to these days. Failing all that, I'd bring in Phil Brown from Southend. And for next season I would allow all kids in for free, and no season ticket would cost more than £100. We need radical thinking to drag us out of this mire, and I'm the one to do it.
“ The January transfer window cannot come soon enough” -Karl ‘Excuse Monger’ Robinson yesterday. Is he on a cut for Konsa then?
