Yesterday's Football League Paper has a very positive story about Charlton: 'Charlton Athletic's change in fortunes over the past nine months has been little short of remarkable .... Turn the clock back to last December and the Addicks' rise was hard to predict. [Indeed the over large crowd of pessimists at Charlton was predicting we would be playing in League Two the following season.]
Nathan Jones commented: 'There's a certain level I always demand from players and if we reach it, we reap the rewards. We have confidence in ourselves, we always feel we have a goal in us, and I need us to keep looking up.'
Jones added: 'It's been a matter of getting minutes into new players and bedding them in, it's absolutely vital. The early indications are bright. We preached to our transfer targets what Charlton is all about, where we think we are going and what we think they can do for us. That enticed a lot of them and now feel there is a great blend in the club.'
'I always take recruitment so seriously because I have learned the hard way no matter how good I think I am, if I get recruitment wrong and have a bad group, success is quite simply impossible.'
'This is a journey, not a destination. We don't just want to keep pace with the level, we want to affect the level and really make our mark in the Championship.'
Charlton have fallen back to 10th after Sunday's games.
The one downside risk is that clubs will start to realise that it's not just a matter of turning up to claim three easy points from sure fire relegation candidates, but they need to take us seriously.
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