Guy Luzon speaks (ok its a parody account + and his wicki page)

Amongst the gloom and doom at The Valley, I came across on twitter a parody account of Guy Luzojn.  Whilst some have found the humour annoying it made me giggle so I thought I would give a bit of coverage to his account @GuyLuzoncafc .

Parody it maybe but it hits the nail on the head when it comes to his understanding of all things Charlton and Football.

As he says "Come on You Adders!"

Footnote:- There is now a Guy Luzon Wickipedia entry, won't be around for long http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Luzon but just incase yuo miss it here is a screen shot:-

Charlton Trailblaze with live TV

I was on my weekly bicycle and stop off at Greenwich, Novotel for a coffee and a read of their Independent and came across the report on Charlton beating Blackburn 1-0 in the FA Cup.

No I have not got it wrong, in 1947 the first ever live club TV match was televised and it was between Charlton and Blackburn as a trial run prior to the FA Cup final being televised, which Charlton went on to win 1-0.

Sam Bartram said it was a poor game and was lucky that a slip towards the end did not result in a Blackburn equaliser.

That cup final was the second cup final to feature Charlton and was the 2nd cup final in a row where the ball burst.

So those were happy days - on TV and we won (Now this is against the law), we won the FA Cup (Eee Aye adee o) and the ball burst.

It was a different era from the money fueled, network inducing world that football is played in today.

Charlton Athletic trailblazers

• Live TV coverage
• Ground sharing
• A supporters political party
• And a Belgian led network ownership

Never dull at the Valley.

Now back to cleaning my pitchfork.

The Trust makes its move ...

The Trust has to date taken a view of working closely with the ownership regime, however following Katrien Meire telling the fans that they just have to accept Rolands way and now an unwillingness to engage further on the plans for the clubs future, the Trust has decided to get stuck in and roll its sleeves up, here is its statement.

"Further to our statement of 14th January 2015, the Charlton Athletic Supporters' Trust wrote to the club's CEO Katrien Meire to follow up our offer to discuss the growing anxiety of supporters about the direction of the club, and how they might be better involved.

We have received a disappointing response. Whilst Ms Meire has suggested that we meet with a colleague to discuss what the club needs to do to maintain and grow the fanbase, she declined any dialogue on the vital matter of where the club is heading.

Her explanation - that she had nothing more to tell supporters regarding the direction of the club - reminds us of her words " To read on Click here

QUELLE EST LE POINT

Le point has joined today, we seem to be strengthening every where but not the position that we have all screamed out to be filled. Not only have we not strengthened the striker position but we have weakened it in numbers if nothing else with the loaning out of George Tucudean.

We now seem to have a dearth of players who can play at centre half and central midfielder and the good news is there are two more centre halves on the way, potentially.

We need a target man who can muscle and bustle.  In numbers you would normally argue two staters and two back up and in Igor, Watt, Church, Karl Ahearne-Grant we have players but we don't have quality.  Igor has not scored since Reading and the rest have not scored.

I welcome Monsieur Le Point and maybe we need him, but he won't score 10 goals this
Season and nobody on the books currently looks like they could.

There is still time in the window and I hope that Rollies  advisors know more about football than me. However, if we don't add to the forward options I fear for the remainder of the season, starting with Rotherham.

He's Got No Hair But We Don't Care, and He's Gone!

The Head Coach is gone, long live the Head Coach!

Firstly, I'd like to thank Bob Peeters for his efforts as our Head Coach, ultimately the the job overwhelmed him and it appears that his run of poor (awful, terrible) results, accompanied by what sounds like him losing the dressing room did for him.

For me, results can always be turned round but if you lose the dressing room then you have to find the exit door and it appears that Roland and Katrien have shown him it.

The margin of success and failure if fine and it could all have been so different if Bikey had not fired high over the bar or Igor Vetokele had not done similar or even if Watts first bit of action, as a red, had been more than just another almost moment. How much better we would have been if Wenger had not recalled Coq.

After a start that involved a large element of luck, Bob's luck ran out and now he is going back to Belgium.

Bob is not totally to blame, Roland has to take his share of the blame.  Positively he invested in the grounds infrastructure and the team, but you need strikers and with only Vetokele being recruited as a striking goal scorer, once he picked up a knock, the goals dried up and the league positions slipped away.

Roland has also to take blame for a rooky manager with only slight knowledge of the Championship.

So who is next?

Could Riga come back ... he would be welcomed but would his or Rolands pride allow it?  Then there is Guy Luzon, a man nobody speaks well of .  More news from the club over  the week and then its off to Watford.  GuHy Luzon - He's got hair but I don't care!

A drama in 30 seconds!!

There was so much about that goal. 

The tackle to get the ball back from a player not normally associated with tackling back.

The creation of space.

The shot.

The ball flying like an exocet through the air into the top corner.

 ... Goal!!  

Cousins celebration. 

The scorers celebration.  

Not seen on the video the bench went mad 

And finally the professionalism of TBH going to all the players and telling them to get focused.
  

A drama in 30 seconds

The Yoof are coming!

There is no doubt that yesterdays result was a disappointment, but not as big a disappointment as some of the results of last season and I would rather be a Charlton fan this morning than a Reading one.

Despite the loss of Riga and the introduction of Clarke Blackpool remain at the bottom of the table and the expectation is that we would beat them.  I had them down for a 3-1 victory to us, sadly it was not to be, but a point is better than zero and when you saw some of the players that are with Blackpool you could see a lot of experience amongst them..

Experience of the likes of ex Man U academy and former Charlton target Chris Eagles* or ex Spur Jamie O'Hara.  A victory for Charlton was not delusional but it was, as it turned out, by no means a foregone conclusion.

And experience yesterday was something that we were short of, although you could argue that our two most experienced players resulted in our defeat - Andre Bikey blasting over an almost empty net and Tal ben Haim tackling from behind for the free kick that led to the goal.

The youth academy provided us with six** players yesterday and whilst we might wish Pope and Fox had not been there it was a fine recommendation for all of those who contribute to Valley Gold.

In defence of Fox, he is a solid defender, his problem is that he is not blessed with the ability to drive forward and needs a 2nd touch when he gets the ball, which takes momentum out of the game.  Fox however is in the team at the moment and the "dogs abuse" he receives will not help him and his confidence.  The fans getting on anther full back for Charlton resulted in his loss of confidence and he always played for us like a rabbit in the headlights and he was a seasoned pro who had just won his previous teams player of the season award.  His season only lasted a year, and you may wonder what happened to him next, well it appears that he became an important part of a division one team who gained promotion to the Championship and today, whilst still holding down his place with them, he sits in the top place of the Championship.

Pope of course had two 'mares that resulted in both of Blackpool's goals, but where was his protection?  he and Davies were left alone at the free kick which TBH should never have given away.  And lets not forget he made a good save in the first half from Blackpool's only other shot.  Pope is a young keeper, keepers mature later and go on longer and does not deserve being called a C, by our moronic fans.

But back to experience, our policy is to play youth and develop from within.  Injury has probably accelerated this position not to mention Mr Duchatalet not opening his wallet willy nilly, after all in the last 12 months he has only spent circa £25 million on the club.

Yesterday the average age of the team was 23 years old and if you take out Bikey and TBH it was 21 years 6 months.  We are a young in experienced side and we will make mistakes, I still believe we will be closer to playoffs to relegation come the end game and I believe we should keep the faith and stop slagging off our youth, after-all we were happy to sing after Jordans goal "He's one of our own ..!" Most of them are so we should be supporting them.



*Turned us down because we were not good enough, so relegation to level 3 would be nice.
** Strictly speaking 5 but I include Pope in there too.