So my patience is now spent. A insulting attempt at decrying fraye is an interim appointment ,meant to trick us stupid south east London peasants into thinking there will be anything other then fraye appointed as full time member of the networ is frankly and fucking a disgraceful insult to every Charlton supporters intelligence.
It is time, I've personally given this shower of shite grace, that others haven't. If someone out there (Voice of The Valley?) wants to begin to organise I'm quite ready to follow.
These tits cannot continue to destroy the club we love. Frankly I'd rather do a Portsmouth.
Love this club, despise its owners.
Sunday, 25 October 2015
Saturday, 24 October 2015
Luzons gone!
Luzon and Matthews have both had their contracts terminated with immediate effect.
Malky Mackay was pictured in the West Stand at today's game apparently.
I expect a quick appointment. Never a dull moment!
Malky Mackay was pictured in the West Stand at today's game apparently.
I expect a quick appointment. Never a dull moment!
Woeful, inept and disgraceful...
So I'm guessing that the opening few weeks of the season were a bit of an anomaly and the bookies were spot on in their analysis of our playing staff, management and chances of beating the drop.
I find it impossible to find any pluses from today's game or single out any of the players for not having a shocker. To a man they looked somewhat lost. Like they'd never played together and were completely out of their depth. Two home games running ironed out by opposition that we should be targeting for all three points, simply not good enough!
The root of the problem has to be with the owners of the club. The host of managers who have failed to live up to RD's unrealistic expectations have not been given the chance to be a football manager. Head Coach as a roll only works if the players they are given are of good enough quality and depth that they can coach them between games to deliver the game plan to win matches. Powell, Riga, Peeters and Guy Bufoon have all been given players chosen by a 'committee' who's main agenda seems to be to spend a little and hopefully unearth some rough cut diamonds and hidden gems that will do well and be shipped out at a profit. It's pretty depressing what the current regime are doing to the club via their naevity and 'mother knows' best attitude.
Let's be honest they have had their chances, and if Luzon goes will be recruiting a fourth manager since taking over just over a season ago. I just hope they realise the business model they came up with doesn't work and either see sense and appoint an experienced manager, give him a budget and handover player recruitment and all football related matters to him and let him get on with it. Or do one!
I find it impossible to find any pluses from today's game or single out any of the players for not having a shocker. To a man they looked somewhat lost. Like they'd never played together and were completely out of their depth. Two home games running ironed out by opposition that we should be targeting for all three points, simply not good enough!
The root of the problem has to be with the owners of the club. The host of managers who have failed to live up to RD's unrealistic expectations have not been given the chance to be a football manager. Head Coach as a roll only works if the players they are given are of good enough quality and depth that they can coach them between games to deliver the game plan to win matches. Powell, Riga, Peeters and Guy Bufoon have all been given players chosen by a 'committee' who's main agenda seems to be to spend a little and hopefully unearth some rough cut diamonds and hidden gems that will do well and be shipped out at a profit. It's pretty depressing what the current regime are doing to the club via their naevity and 'mother knows' best attitude.
Let's be honest they have had their chances, and if Luzon goes will be recruiting a fourth manager since taking over just over a season ago. I just hope they realise the business model they came up with doesn't work and either see sense and appoint an experienced manager, give him a budget and handover player recruitment and all football related matters to him and let him get on with it. Or do one!
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
A labour of love...
The trouble with blogging about any subject is that it's driven by the individuals passion and enthusiasm about a given subject.
Hence the fact I've not really posted too much since September. Following on from last nights, yet again, dismal performance and even more depressing result, and reading other people's blogs, I've been prompted to power up the iPad and put my thoughts out there.
For me last night would be placed equally beside the quarter final capitulation against Sheffield United as joint low point of the current regime. The toxic (and to be honest who can blame them) atmosphere emanating around The Valley making home games become a bit of a chore to say the least.
We all like to romanticise things, and after the encouraging opening 4 games of this season we had perhaps all become a bit guilty of false optimism. Ignoring the fact that we have a slightly eccentric manager, with very limited experience at this level, a very very thin squad of players with lots of potential, but again little experience of playing Championship level football.
What makes everything even more frustrating is the spin that comes out of the club, the excuses for lacklustre performance time after time not being placed at either the players, managers or owners feet. Always some mitigating outside force conspiring to stop us getting the result we all want.
Reality is that we are in a much worst position than when either Powell, Riga or Peeters departed. So what's to do?
Regardless of the injury situation (bad luck or bad training methods?) I see no one on the management or playing side, besides yet again injured Jonnie Jackson, who could take this group and pull it up by the scruff of its neck?
To blame our current form solely on 'key' players not being available is frankly ludicrous. Pope is young in goalkeeping terms. What was to stop us going out during the emergency window and bringing in a Championship experienced goalkeeper on loan? And however good or not Makaenik may be, it's not really comparable to losing Louis Suarez is it?
As I'm writing this, who knows?, once I press the publish button and return to the cafc home page I'll find a 'club statement' announcing Luzons departure and yet another unheard of member of the EU being shipped in to save the day!
Or, he types having put on his rose tinted spectacles, an experienced English manager with some pedigree appearing to save the day. Or even an old Charlton head coming back in to partner a younger Charlton face and help us rise up the table.
There we have it, that hideous cup half full optimism that has kept me coming back for more over the last thirty five years.
Come on you Reds!!! (He says, albeit slightly apathetically)
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Hence the fact I've not really posted too much since September. Following on from last nights, yet again, dismal performance and even more depressing result, and reading other people's blogs, I've been prompted to power up the iPad and put my thoughts out there.
For me last night would be placed equally beside the quarter final capitulation against Sheffield United as joint low point of the current regime. The toxic (and to be honest who can blame them) atmosphere emanating around The Valley making home games become a bit of a chore to say the least.
We all like to romanticise things, and after the encouraging opening 4 games of this season we had perhaps all become a bit guilty of false optimism. Ignoring the fact that we have a slightly eccentric manager, with very limited experience at this level, a very very thin squad of players with lots of potential, but again little experience of playing Championship level football.
What makes everything even more frustrating is the spin that comes out of the club, the excuses for lacklustre performance time after time not being placed at either the players, managers or owners feet. Always some mitigating outside force conspiring to stop us getting the result we all want.
Reality is that we are in a much worst position than when either Powell, Riga or Peeters departed. So what's to do?
Regardless of the injury situation (bad luck or bad training methods?) I see no one on the management or playing side, besides yet again injured Jonnie Jackson, who could take this group and pull it up by the scruff of its neck?
To blame our current form solely on 'key' players not being available is frankly ludicrous. Pope is young in goalkeeping terms. What was to stop us going out during the emergency window and bringing in a Championship experienced goalkeeper on loan? And however good or not Makaenik may be, it's not really comparable to losing Louis Suarez is it?
As I'm writing this, who knows?, once I press the publish button and return to the cafc home page I'll find a 'club statement' announcing Luzons departure and yet another unheard of member of the EU being shipped in to save the day!
Or, he types having put on his rose tinted spectacles, an experienced English manager with some pedigree appearing to save the day. Or even an old Charlton head coming back in to partner a younger Charlton face and help us rise up the table.
There we have it, that hideous cup half full optimism that has kept me coming back for more over the last thirty five years.
Come on you Reds!!! (He says, albeit slightly apathetically)
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Monday, 28 September 2015
Fruitless September...
Following on from the dreadful home defeat against Huddersfield we have since lost 3 tricky away games in Blackburn, Palace and Cardiff to complete a rather depressingly winless September.
Thankfully our surprise good start to the season means the points haul achieved in August leaves us wedged between mid table and a loss apart from being dragged into the early relegation battle.
I'd rather have a dip in form this early in the season, as we have seen in the last few Championship season you can raise your game and results sufficiently in the third quarter of the season to ensure a nervy free finish to the campaign.
A bit of an unambitious outlook you may think, but it is what it is. We are two or three players short of a competitive squad, and when we have more than one senior injured or rested it is and has shown to be too much to ask the youngsters to completely step up. Not their fault as individuals, they just don't have the game time and experience to really steady proceedings at Championship level. (Just look at what a positive impact Callum Harriot has had since stepping down a division to become a key player for Colchester United).
We go into October in need of a couple of decent results to help us keep some daylight between the bottom third of the table and ourselves.
Starting with a tricky Sunday midday kick off home game (annoying???) versus a Fulham team who finally seem to be finding their collective feet in The Championship. It will be a big ask, what with our Sky TV record, but this along with the home games against Preston and Brentford are the three we really need to be targeting for 6-7 points from in October. Of course if the boys do put in a shift and come away with a good performance and more importantly 3 points we then have to suffer the momentum sapping interruption of an international break before we travel to Reading for our next game.
With the old negativity and anti RD/sack Luzon brigade rediscovering their voices, October looks like being a potential rocky ride for the team.
Thankfully our surprise good start to the season means the points haul achieved in August leaves us wedged between mid table and a loss apart from being dragged into the early relegation battle.
I'd rather have a dip in form this early in the season, as we have seen in the last few Championship season you can raise your game and results sufficiently in the third quarter of the season to ensure a nervy free finish to the campaign.
A bit of an unambitious outlook you may think, but it is what it is. We are two or three players short of a competitive squad, and when we have more than one senior injured or rested it is and has shown to be too much to ask the youngsters to completely step up. Not their fault as individuals, they just don't have the game time and experience to really steady proceedings at Championship level. (Just look at what a positive impact Callum Harriot has had since stepping down a division to become a key player for Colchester United).
We go into October in need of a couple of decent results to help us keep some daylight between the bottom third of the table and ourselves.
Starting with a tricky Sunday midday kick off home game (annoying???) versus a Fulham team who finally seem to be finding their collective feet in The Championship. It will be a big ask, what with our Sky TV record, but this along with the home games against Preston and Brentford are the three we really need to be targeting for 6-7 points from in October. Of course if the boys do put in a shift and come away with a good performance and more importantly 3 points we then have to suffer the momentum sapping interruption of an international break before we travel to Reading for our next game.
With the old negativity and anti RD/sack Luzon brigade rediscovering their voices, October looks like being a potential rocky ride for the team.
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Ahmed Kashi & Chris Solly 1 Huddersfield 2...
Well perhaps the tag line is a little unjust, but I've just got home from one of the most woefully inept Charlton performances I have seen for a long time. For the second match in days, on our own turf, we were frustrated and you could say a little humiliated by two teams who are where they are in the league, all be it early doors, on the merit of their ability.
The only two players who could come out with any credit whatsoever would be Solly and Kashi. Not one to single out players, and there are a few I could (and will) after tonight's capitulation, but it simply was not good enough to contradict the bookies making us early favourites for a bottom three place.
Perhaps our blind partisan optimism stopped us seeing the practicality of the bookies stance?
We played so fluidly in the opening two home games, but tonight were disjointed, undisciplined and generally awful. Bad passing, sloppy challenges and what was worst, once our opening gambit of a tactic quite obviously was not going to work, did we change it? No! We kept passing the ball from left to right to left to right, back, forward from left to right, and again, then delivering some of the worst crosses I have ever seen. Big Mak missed two gold gilted opportunities to score, JBG and Tony Watt looked like they thought they were simply too good to actually engage their brains and make the simple pass, or in Watts case pass at all. Fox just looked entirely out of his depth. (God forbid what Zaha will do to him next Wednesday?) And Barr was all arms and legs.
Dreadful evening, awful performance, how fickle us football fans are. Has Basil been found out? Will all the knockers be proven right? Should I have had 300 quid on us going down? (Of course not!)
The highlight of the evening was seeing little Kashi physically drag the Gargantuan Huddersfield number 11 to his feet when he tried to stay down prostate in agony after a hand bag tackle. Well done Kashi for trying to take the game by the scruff of the neck. Well done Chris Solly for being such a quality player.
On the subject of the second Sir Chris (Solly), great player, but should he be captain on the pitch? Great player that he is (and I still firmly believe he will go on to great things, and win an England cap) he's simply not vocal enough to be captain. Guy Luzon, whom I'm not going to start blaming ,yet , needs to think about this. It's no good making 'one of our own' captain if there are better candidates (if not better players) in the squad who may perform the role in a more proactive manner.
A very frustrating evening, I'll be interested to see Luzons post match press conference comments on this one. I'll begin to become a wee bit cynical of him if he harps on about possession, number of passes and shots on target - because the one thing above all of those that really matters is getting the ball in the back of the neck more times than your opponent.
Nighty night.
The only two players who could come out with any credit whatsoever would be Solly and Kashi. Not one to single out players, and there are a few I could (and will) after tonight's capitulation, but it simply was not good enough to contradict the bookies making us early favourites for a bottom three place.
Perhaps our blind partisan optimism stopped us seeing the practicality of the bookies stance?
We played so fluidly in the opening two home games, but tonight were disjointed, undisciplined and generally awful. Bad passing, sloppy challenges and what was worst, once our opening gambit of a tactic quite obviously was not going to work, did we change it? No! We kept passing the ball from left to right to left to right, back, forward from left to right, and again, then delivering some of the worst crosses I have ever seen. Big Mak missed two gold gilted opportunities to score, JBG and Tony Watt looked like they thought they were simply too good to actually engage their brains and make the simple pass, or in Watts case pass at all. Fox just looked entirely out of his depth. (God forbid what Zaha will do to him next Wednesday?) And Barr was all arms and legs.
Dreadful evening, awful performance, how fickle us football fans are. Has Basil been found out? Will all the knockers be proven right? Should I have had 300 quid on us going down? (Of course not!)
The highlight of the evening was seeing little Kashi physically drag the Gargantuan Huddersfield number 11 to his feet when he tried to stay down prostate in agony after a hand bag tackle. Well done Kashi for trying to take the game by the scruff of the neck. Well done Chris Solly for being such a quality player.
On the subject of the second Sir Chris (Solly), great player, but should he be captain on the pitch? Great player that he is (and I still firmly believe he will go on to great things, and win an England cap) he's simply not vocal enough to be captain. Guy Luzon, whom I'm not going to start blaming ,yet , needs to think about this. It's no good making 'one of our own' captain if there are better candidates (if not better players) in the squad who may perform the role in a more proactive manner.
A very frustrating evening, I'll be interested to see Luzons post match press conference comments on this one. I'll begin to become a wee bit cynical of him if he harps on about possession, number of passes and shots on target - because the one thing above all of those that really matters is getting the ball in the back of the neck more times than your opponent.
Nighty night.
Rotherham at home...
I'm really not a fan of the international breaks. They make the opening couple of the months disjointed, both for the team and for the fans in general. (Well that's my excuse for my own disjointed and lethargic start to blogging this season anyway).
So Sir Chris brings his Huddersfield to The Valley tonight, for the first league game under lights of the season.
Saturday saw our good start to the season, by ways of both performance and result stutter a little.
Some good passages of play were followed by a slight naivety in the final third, and to be fair to them Rotherham did a very good job of frustrating the Addicks when they did actually get the chance.
We move on, as they say that's yesterday's chip paper.
Tonight's side may well include newly loaned attacking wide man Conor McAleny who has joined us on a short term deal from Everton. Hopefully he will fit the bill, as I would much prefer to see Cousins playing a more central role with JBG out on the right.
The big thing to ponder is what to do up front. Big Mak, in my opinion, has certainly changed the course of the things in the last two home games. I think Saturday against Rotherham was his best performance so far in his fledgling Charlton career. (I also think given game time he will get better and better).
I wouldn't be surprised to see the big man start alongside Ahearne-Grant. I think Watt and Vetokele both still have some fitness issues and could do with a rest. And I'd be interested to see Ahearne Grants quick feet tested when enjoying the hold up play and flick one that we saw Big Mak execute on Saturday.
The defence is fine. (Yes even Morgan Fox, who just needs to achieve a bit mor consistency). Diarra was magnificent both defensively and charging forward to create attacking options against Rotherham.
I'm betting on a more alert frontline helping us to a 3-1 win.
So Sir Chris brings his Huddersfield to The Valley tonight, for the first league game under lights of the season.
Saturday saw our good start to the season, by ways of both performance and result stutter a little.
Some good passages of play were followed by a slight naivety in the final third, and to be fair to them Rotherham did a very good job of frustrating the Addicks when they did actually get the chance.
We move on, as they say that's yesterday's chip paper.
Tonight's side may well include newly loaned attacking wide man Conor McAleny who has joined us on a short term deal from Everton. Hopefully he will fit the bill, as I would much prefer to see Cousins playing a more central role with JBG out on the right.
The big thing to ponder is what to do up front. Big Mak, in my opinion, has certainly changed the course of the things in the last two home games. I think Saturday against Rotherham was his best performance so far in his fledgling Charlton career. (I also think given game time he will get better and better).
I wouldn't be surprised to see the big man start alongside Ahearne-Grant. I think Watt and Vetokele both still have some fitness issues and could do with a rest. And I'd be interested to see Ahearne Grants quick feet tested when enjoying the hold up play and flick one that we saw Big Mak execute on Saturday.
The defence is fine. (Yes even Morgan Fox, who just needs to achieve a bit mor consistency). Diarra was magnificent both defensively and charging forward to create attacking options against Rotherham.
I'm betting on a more alert frontline helping us to a 3-1 win.
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