Robinson said after the game that Billy Clarke has picked up a serious injury today (“it doesn’t look good at all”). Duchatelet’s dreams are about to be answered, as Aribo will now play extra games through necessity not merit. RD must be fulminating begins the scenes that 14 year old Hackett-Fairchild hasn’t replaced Magennis in the Starting X1 yet. Fans on CL saying RD has “got” to spend money now make me laugh - surely they must realise that he genuinely doesn’t give a shiny sh1t !
Spending serious money in January to sort out what should have been sorted last summer is the only way that Charlton have now to repair any chance of competing for automatic promotion, and even of retaining a better than 50/50 chance of hanging on to sixth place. From that point of view, Roland has 'got' to spend money if he wants Charlton to have any real chance to gain promotion and give him something worth selling in the summer. We could all see this was coming six months ago. Only the apologists were saying we had done enough good business in the summer, though curiously Jeddez is now claiming that "we are not a finished product". (Nice one Jeddez. How long have you known that then? And why are you content with it, and happy to use it as an excuse for failure?) But we all know that Roland is not interested anymore (if indeed he ever was). He has said so himself. He wants KR to fix the situation with useless journeymen and teenage kids. Now why does that have a strangely familiar ring to it? RD has sold Karl Robinson down the river just like the rest of us. In that respect if no other, KR does have much in common with Charlton fans.
