This was a perfect storm, made worse by bad planning and decision making. The infrastructure at Charlton has been decimated by the owner’s cost cutting and there is now very little experience or expertise at the club. Add to that a lack of urgency and foresight on the Brighton side and...
I feel for you all. It’s not easy watching the struggles of a massive away following trying to watch a successful team. Let’s hope for a Christmas miracle.
You think being taken over by Charlie Methven will create a feelgood factor? No chance.
We can quibble over what ‘boycott’ means, but I think most fans who don’t go any more don’t go because they don’t feel like it and have had enough of what had become a depressing experience.
He was given a hero’s welcome for wrestling the club away from some genuinely terrible people and was massively in credit for a while, so we laughed off his guitar playing antics and odd statements and viewed him as a kind of well meaning David Brent figure. Unfortunately he has turned out to be...
I don’t know where you got that, but I’m not aware of any protest planned. The owner is trying to sell, so there’s no point. There is no boycott or stay away protest. The reason sales are so low is because of years of terrible football, combined with disaffection at the way the club is run.
Good post. It’s such a shame for everyone that we won’t have more fans there because the atmosphere would have been superb, especially towards the north end of the ground.
That system works fine when numbers are low. Ironically I once lost my tickets for Brighton away and that’s exactly what I did. I think the issue here is the numbers involved which could make it a fairly trying experience.