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Charlton boss Lee Bowyer fears for the future of the club after latest talks could prove sinister going forward

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Charlton manager Lee Bowyer has been a positive light in the last few seasons when things should have been going a lot worse for us on the pitch, but with the ever-growing bad state of affairs behind the scenes, it has made his job a lot harder and with the decisions in the boardroom having a domino effect on the pitch with us dropping down into the relegation zone for the first time this season our loss against Middlebrough could be the final straw for Charlton’s survival campaign.

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A points-per-game method is being discussed to end the current Championship season which would see Charlton relegated is being called “scandalous” by Bowyer as we only dropped into the relegation zone just 6 days before football in England was halted due to Coronavirus.

The gaffer also went as far to say that relegation would “kill” the club and it would in a sense if the financial woes don’t put the final nail in the coffin first. Everything we all worked so hard for as players, management and fans we all supported the club up and down the country in good numbers last season and to see all of that thrown away due to this would be a real heartbreaking way to go.

Lee Bowyer spoke with Sky Sports yesterday and here is what he had to say

“It would kill our football club, we would struggle. I don’t know the extent but it would be bad. We’re not in a great position anyway.

“There is meant to be a meeting later in the week with the managers and hopefully someone from the EFL, and I’ll be saying to them what I’m saying to you.

“To be called as it stands today would be scandalous, it would be wrong on every level. For us as a club it wouldn’t be acceptable. I don’t think they’ll give too much away because they never do.

“I think we’ll be guided by what happens in the Premier League. We’ve only been in there for six days for the whole season. If they had called it the week before, it would have been Middlesbrough in the bottom three.

“If they have to call it a day – the fairest way would be halfway through the season – so you’re judging it when everyone played each other once.”

The outcome Bowyer has suggested would be fair in my eyes and not just because I’m a Charlton fan, but just because it would make sense, I haven’t seen many other options out there that I either like the sound of or think that would realistically happen such as the promotions and no relegations suggestion that have heard for example.

Personally I would like to see the promotions and no relegations, obviously one of the reasonings for that is because I’m a Charlton fan, but also I feel it would give the leagues a fresh feel especially in the top flight as they would go back to the 22 team format it had it’s first Premier League season back in 1992 and I’m open to a new format in the English leagues going ahead.

Some might not agree with what I’m saying here, but that’s just my opinion. If you have any suggestions on how the league should be ended please post your comments below!

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6 comments

  • Dr Ron Sivan says:

    I am a Charlton fan since I was a nipper. i now live in Israel but follow them ardently and what has happened in the last year is breaking my heart. I feel for Lee Boyer and his players as well as for the fans. From the giddy peak of the play-off and the ecstatic atmosphere of that winning goal seconds before full-time, we have plummeted to the depths of utter despair. You could see it coming, that early scorching form, the slow relentless fall down the table, some shocking results and to rub salt into the wound, dropping into the bottom three in the last game played before the contagion. We don’t deserve it, and I agree with Lee that the EFL should have protected us. There are a lot of unworthy people around and we don’t deserve them. If they love the game of football, the EFL will find a way out for us.

    • john west says:

      I am afraid in any case this club will die this time and thanks to all those “responsible.

  • Dr Jim says:

    Sounds like Leagues 1 and 2 cannot be completed. If so, remains the possibility that only the automatic places would be promoted and Charlton being third bottom may get a reprieve.

    In any case, it shouldn’t come to that. We were only two days away from playing Hull in a match that could have seen us rise three places in the table so to call it a day based on arbitrary decision to end on the Thursday before the game is crazy. The injustice would also be because the only reason we were down there was owing to a freakishly horrendous injury list that saw us playing youth team players for about 15 games in a row. With the first team back fit again, it is hard to say the current position reflects the squad’s ability.

    Given everything going on at the club though, all the uncertainties around our ownership and Covid-19, we’ll barely survive even in the Championship. Our saving grace might be that we have the lowest wage bill in the league and our highest paid players out of contract in July. If Phillips and Bonne were sold, most our non playing staff on furlough, we might be able to send some youth team out to get walloped each week and pay them peanuts. Our running costs might be incredibly low as a club which could give us a chance. We have now reached a point where only the club’s survival matters to me. We can rebuild in future years as long as we survive but clearly staying a Championship club for another year makes survival a lot easier.

    Have an added concern that the EFL simply doesn’t like Charlton and see it as a headache club. I expect them to give us no favours. The way the EFL has handled the goings on at Charlton over the past few years has been awful and we might be about to see them kick us when we’re down.

  • alex says:

    I went to my first Charlton game in 1965. So Like many others I have seen many downs, and a few ups.
    However, I am probably bucking the trend when I say enough is enough. As a country we basically have far too many clubs that can reasonably be sustained, and we as a club are bankrupt with no likely source of funding or income. We will also have no players in a couple of months time and I hate to see us suffer with the seemless never ending round of charlatans bleeding whats left of the club dry.
    So I say, put us down peacefully with dignity and stop this spiral into oblivion by ending it now.
    My one abiding regret though will be Roland cashing his assets. Now i am sure even he could not have predicted COVID, but you don’t become a billionaire without some savvy. And I am sure he knew that by giving away the club for £1 but keeping ownership of the assets (ground) he knew the club would be busted and without a club the council have no interest in keeping the ground.
    But don’t put my name down for flat 1965 in Roland Towers.
    I loved my Charlton, let her RIP

    • Rick says:

      To Alex

      What a disgusting post….after everything we’ve been through, now you want us to die?

      We don’t need fans like you – no true football fan would ever wish their club disappeared forever, so shame on you, you plastic moron. The rest of us will fight until we get our club back because it matters – you are an absolute disgrace and I’m as ashamed of you, as I am The Rat, Nimer and that parasite Southall…who by the way, better know what’s coming to him the moment he comes anywhere near the Valley again.

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