Nice to see that all of us seem to agree on something for a change regarding RD. I feel for Powell i really do, it cannot be easy to go to work when it is pretty obvious the board do not give a toss about you or the fans or the playing squad. We sit here with a bloke who has enough cash to back Powell, and if he does, the difference would be remarkable. He wont though, and i cant figure out why. How any "businessman" can be so dim is beyond me. Spend a bit of dosh and if we get promoted to the Prem, the money he makes is so much more than he would ever make from Liege. From a business point of view that would be the priority for anyone who had any sense. A lot of clubs that spend big have a tough time in this division, but we have a manager who has a good record in building a squad that does not cost a fortune and plays well as a unit. To know we have all that potential sat there but it will never materialise is so frustrating
I came to the conclusion over a lunch time pint as to why I don't think RD is the man for us. He's a dickhead.
Not even a small one that could be hidden with a well placed fringe. RD is a huge, flaccid bouncy one that i hope takes his eye out the next time he tries to jog off a choux bun
Standard Liege is RD's true love. We just exist to service his spare parts, & to provide new ones when they are required.
He doesn't even love SL. They are just the team doing the best of his misfit bunch. If by some mircale Alcoron got promoted to La Liga next season, I'm sure he would sit up and take notice. Same if we stay up and then got promoted. He hasn't got a clue. Roland Dickhead, he hasn't got a clue.
I would rather go down to League One with someone else in charge than stay up with RD, i am completely convinced we are destined to die as a club if he stays around for anything more than a few years. I could be wrong, he could change his tune and wake up, but if he takes us down the road he has chosen Charlton is gone
the reality is, we'd have got knocked out of the cup in the next round anyway. it was always going to happen. it would have been a nice day out for everyone and i can empathise with everyones anger at the lack of any sort of effort yesterday. but, having taken a day to calm down and take everything into account, the same problems we had before still exist. our squad is still L1 at best, we had our best players sold, our pitch is sh1t.. etc etc.. this is not CP's fault. whoever replaces him will have the same limp players, budget and ground to work with. i'm not defending him because i like him, i'm just trying to work out the root of the problem and not treating the symptom. i'm now angry at the players. not CP. the summer cant come round quick enough. i'd hope we hear something along the lines of how millwalls chairman spoke - he aint giving out contracts for failure.
But when we went 2-0 down yesterday we should at the very least have seen a Powell inspired fightback from the bench, using subs, rollockings and new tactics. We saw nothing. The Blades could have scored more. The buck stops with the manager.
The players aren't playing for Powell. They'd like to, but I think there is too much uncertainty around their own future's that they are off thinking about that. Might sound harsh, but if you read any autobiography from a current/ex pro, you will hear about how much these kind of situations affect a player. Poor Ashley Cole almost swerved off the motorway when being offered a paltry 80k a week!
good argument, but i'm afraid thats a symptom. players are the ones who did not react - very little a manager can do when 9 out of 11 players are sh1te.
Sadly, SIG, CP is a symptom of our illness. Like an infected limb, he needs to be removed, thus giving the remainder of the body a chance to survive. We can't keep limping and stumbling when there's a chance that a prosthetic limb will get us moving again. ****ing hell. I'm losing the plot.
We did see something from Powell, he pussied out and took off our 2 best players on the day, Poyet and Wilson, hardly inspiring to the rest of the team
Perhaps he had written off the game at that point and thought he'd save our "2 best players" for Wednesday. If so that was totally the wrong call.
Thats what I said at the game, but it was still 30 minutes to go, and he just gave up... it was the biggest game of our season in terms of chance for glory and for the fans, and then he went and did that, showed a lack of respect for the fans and guts too
Mick Collins who is close to the Club has stated that he has received a phone call that he has been dreading. It could be something to do with this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ton-owner-Duchatelet-sounds-replacements.html
