It’s quite a feat to have posted utter sh it on Charlton forums for 15 years & never once engaged with his hundreds of critics.
I was standing next to him once at a "Roland Out" rally. He was explaining to a group of listeners about a consortium he and Peter Varney were putting together to buy Charlton.
Celtic signed a keeper for £1.2m. The selling club revealed that Charlton had also been interested in him. Therefore, in BB’s world, Charlton had bid £1.2m for a goalkeeper. A complete simpleton.
The goalkeeper position is a puzzle. I can only assume that our No.1 target is one of the deals Nathan Jones spoke about yesterday in terms of being difficult to get over the line. I wonder if we will send AMB out on loan, but sell Isted. Neither impressed last season. We need better.
I still think AM-B has potential, and was pretty good before he lost confidence and his game seemed to disintegrate for some reason.
Ackers is a good guy. He lives in the Royal Borough, and a more genuine Charlton fan you won’t find. He’s never taken a free buffet or a free ticket from s hitty owners in his life. When Dodger organised his meeting against Southall & Farnell ….Ackers was there. Others were busy having selfies in the museum, or blowing smoke up ESI’s greasy arses. Ackers is still on Twitter.
With the season fast approaching, our transfer activity to date hasn't been good enough, certainly not for a promotion challenge. We don’t have enough squad depth or creativity. Another mediocre 10th placed finish will be on the cards unless we start bringing in the “elite players” promised. Thats not “wrist slitting negativity” or “entitlement” (copyright the Pro Boards Pro SMT forum), it’s reality.
I think they are looking to shift out a number of players before they bring in any new signings.The problem being is that there is not a long line of Clubs queueing up to take the likes of Fraser, Ness, Isted etc
This is part of the frustration though. Those dead wood players that need shifting did not just appear out of nowhere. Most of them were signed by this administration. Signing useless players has a double negative effect. 1) They lead to a dreadful season 2) Nobody wants them when you try to get rid. So we will still be paying the price this season for last season's duds, even if none of them kick another ball in our shirt.
For all the spin & bluster & selective leaking to forum pets, the SMT hasn’t done a good enough job yet. One of Steve Gallen’s favourite excuses for his poor performance (@TC (Lovely Geezer) was “all the same clubs want the few good players”, and we are starting to hear that again now from various SMT stooges. If your budget is big enough & your recruitment team agile enough, generally speaking you land your targets. There is still three weeks to go until the season starts, but once again the main feature of this summer has not been money spent on good signings, but the Usual Suspects pretending they are in the know. It’s incredible that a diminishing handful still believe them …
