Looking back is a better pastime than forward at CAFC these days. All that time, expense and effort that's been put in since the mid '90s to restore a truly great club and for what ? The prospect of Millwall being higher up the table than us ?
It's time to eat humble pie and ask Curbishley to help us out. No one knows what went on between Curbs and Muzza and the rest of the board apart from Curbs and Murray but it's time to put pride behind us and try and save the club from implosion.
I guess Curbs and his business brain brother would say forget the past and move on but I'm sure that Curbs has a piece of his heart that has Charlton tattooed on it. So Mr Murray and your supporters please make that call to the Curbishley household and ask for help. Ask for his help till the end of the season with no strings. Either side can walk away if it doesn't work. One's thing for sure. If Curbs was to walk out into the Valley, 10,000 supporters would give him a standing ovation and even if they lost 10,000 supporters wouldn't care because they would know that he can turn it around. Think about it Muzza. Right now we're in crisis and he's the man who can help us out.
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Here! Here! Confidential -Some people got upset with Curbishley when he said West Ham was his dream job . Well there are plenty of dream jobs for me but I have about as much chance of getting them as winning the lottery. He can be methodical and lack a bit of charisma but he knows how to manage a team and get them playing to the best of their ability. Some Charlton and a lot of West Ham supporters have delusions of grandeur. For me he will always be the best Charlton manager of all time.
Great to have you back Rickster.
Warranted he does not dig his heels in about getting a PL club,I would endorse your Curbs plan whole heartedly.He's not great when there is money to spend so we are safe enough on that score!
Legends sometime soon mate?
Hi CND and Ketts. Legends would be nice in the new year. Maybe we'll have something to celebrate then ?
If Curbs had made his name somewhere else than Charlton, his record would still make him the dream choice for us... and at the same time we'd see how unlikely it is that he'd come to a club in our dire situation. Could you see him at Doncaster or Forest? No chance.
I was never unhappy with him at Charlton, at least not till it was beyond obvious he'd had enough... he might have produced a dull side at times, but there was much more to him than making the best of limited resources... don't forget that when things were going our way in the prem we could play an attacking passing game with the best of them.
So I agree 100% that he could do it. Not only has he proved he can do it, but the lift it'd give the fans and the players would be amazing, that Roy of the Rovers magic would lift us into the play-offs and we'd go thru on another penalty shoot-out.
And I'd love to think he's as sentimental as we are, that he does have that CAFC tattoo somewhere, but it's sadly obvious that he isn't and he doesn't. He'll come back to Charlton when and if that looks like the best job he can get. Right now the simple fact that we've fallen so far and so hard without him just proves that he's worth more than us... Our academy doesn't look too good, our reserves are getting tanked on a regular basis... Curbs has got nothing to gain and everything to lose by coming back now.
If I was the board I would offer him the moon plus expenses just to come back temporarily and keep us up this season. If we can afford to lose a million or more on Varney, surely we can make Curbs an offer he can't refuse. Except that it seems, from the board's point of view, we can't. We've wasted plenty of money on managers too - Dowie's settlement, plus whatever Super Al ultimately gets - but we're afraid to gamble the big money on the one sure thing that is Curbs.
So it's Aidy Boothroyd for us, boys, or some other big-hearted duffer whose past success owes more to a big mouth and the law of averages than it does to the tedious business of good selection, tactics and training. With the side we've got now we might as well get Hoddle in and all just join him in prayer. B*llocks.
Billy (3rd generation Addick)
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