No, really.....Charlton are in Big Trouble

Posted by Jasper Reed in Charlton, Iain Dowie | 7 October 2006

I admire my colleague's optimism, but I think Charlton are doomed. Recent history is littered with teams that were too good to go down (Ipswich, West Ham) but got off to a bad start and never recovered. Likewise, some clubs just never get going. I think we fall into the second category.

I have thought for a while that Charlton were an accident waiting to happen, never really consolidating and always at risk of getting caught short. And I think this is it. Yes, there are good reasons why we are currently bottom (injuries, opposition etc), but it really doesn’t matter. In any case, its not as if we have Rooney and Terry coming back from injury; there simply isn’t enough quality when they are all fit. As it is confidence is low, morale is low, we’ve never scored enough goals and we have a manager who is, by and large, unproven in anything other than rhetoric. In addition, assuming we do make it off the bottom, never underestimate Charlton's ability to finish the season around Ash Wednesday!

Doomed, I say, doomed.

Comments

1. At October 7, 2006 11:03 PM The Addickted wrote:

I'm glad you admire my optimism and all your points are painfully true. We are set up to go down, but I don't think it'll happen quite yet! Either way, it could well be a photo finish.

2. At October 9, 2006 1:39 PM 13 unlucky for some wrote:

Behave, We have got hardly any of the new players on the pitch, and those that we do have, have been impressive, which leads me to think the others will be too. Fulham is the start of the good run!! It's nice to see so many optimists out there.