The Times thinks that Charlton will finish 16th this season. They comment, 'a summer spent trimming budgets has done little to enhance the manager's prospects of steering the club back into the Premier League before the loss of the relegation parachute payments next summer.'
Birmingham and Derby County are predicted to be promoted automatically with QPR, Reading, Sheffield United and Burnley (!) battling it out in the play offs. Blackpool, Donny (lazy journalism?) and Barnsley are put in the relegation slots.
If we split the difference between this forecast and that of 4-4-2 we end up with a final placing of 9th/10th which sounds more realistic to me.
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I agree, Wyn - a placing similar to last season would be my prediction.
Don't read too much into The Times article - never have "Marcus Bent" and "shrewd piece of business" been mentioned in the same sentence before!
I think we're being a little pessimistic to be honest - if last season showed us anything it is that even pretty average teams can do well in this league. We have a good manager and still some good players so anything could happen..
What happened to AP promise to rectify the weakness he saw last season.Saturday saw same old weakness i.e.crossing,long aimless ball forward and losing possesion in our own half
Any manager who says that they need Darren Ambrose in the team to add a bit of nous needs to be immediately relieved of their duties.
We are average to poor all around the park ( with the exception of the soon to be leaving ZZ) and 16th is optimistic in my book
by the way , those of you who think I am being overly pessimistic in my last post , cast your mind back to the team we had last time we got promoted, ie Hunt, Mendonca, Kinsella, Keily, Rufus, Stuart, Robinson, etc and then compare it to the team this season
what do you think ?
im sorry all charlton fans considering i am one i think that charlton are going down. we need a keeper desperatley, a centre back and two centre midfielders, we got enough strikers and i think we will score goals but we will also conceed a lot of goals so i cant wait to find out til the end of the season. All charlton readers look back to this at the end of the season. thank you
I don't see that we need a keeper. Weaver is good enough and Elliott apparently played well on Saturday.
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