Friendlies dont mean a thing

Several years back I still went to friendlies and enjoyed them and in my naivety, when the team put in unbeaten pre-season run I thought that's it, we are going to win the league. Well I have learnt my lesson and friendlies apart from fitness don't mean diddly squat . When on a barmy summer night I remember Charlton then in the old third division beat Coventry, then in the old first Division 3-2 a couple of thousand fans went wild, because at that time it was a big win. Once the season started, all went pear shaped and we finished about 15th .
I'm praying we have a great season and if we don't make it, Pardew is prepared to give it another season.

Gutted -but what is a poor boy meant to do

Well that's it after a few beers I am well and truly gutted and tears are flowing . I am going to miss the first match against the Scunnies. After putting off friends on the South Coast for the last few weeks I said to my wife, what ever weekend you book, we will go . Fatal I know but there you have it. Not only that I'm going to miss a relegation decider against our local team in tennis in the Kent League-bollocks to that as well. Tomorrow I will offer my season ticket to my fellow Addick supporter so at least it wont be wasted for the match.
By the way just seen a great film The Fisher King for the third time -Robbin Williams best performance by a mile, if you have not seen it, its well worth watching
Come on you Reds

Palace supporters are having a laugh

My last post has suddenly received 4 replies from what I can only assume are Palace supporters on a wind up . The intention of the post was actually trying to bring us or myself down to earth and not have the high expectation and the assumption of automatic promotion. If they had read all of my post they would have realized the obvious.

Lets face it were already promoted

Its a fact, why the opposition will even bother to turn up next season is a mystery. The expectation is rising and I can feel that anything but champions is going to be looked up on as utter failure. Depending on how many read my blog , I would love to know bloggers and readers opinion as to where they think we are going to finish. The honest truth is, this team now, has no resemblance to the previous team that got relegated with Curbishley. At that time he was a genius in my eyes and the team he put together on a shoestring, had a combination of skill, grit and great determination . Curbishley bought very wisely and until he was suddenly presented with a big budget, after the Parker sale, really didn't make a bad deal. Young a lot of money but proved himself in the end . Euell three great seasons as top scorer but what went wrong, we will never know. Deano, Kinsella ,Robinson fantastic. Andy Hunt what a great free
The best of all our hat-trick hero Clive Mendonca bought for £50o,000, or not a lot more, although he didn't really feature so much in our promotion season.
As I got back from work in eager anticipation of seeing my season ticket . My daughter had opened the envelope on my request, when I phoned from work, so I knew it was there, I cant pretend , anything but promotion is going to be devastating to me. The bad old days haunt me, like , when I used to hide behind the sofa watching tales of Mystery and Imagination, if anyone remembers that black and white tv series, I will be utterly gob smacked.

Team spirit will see us through

This is what I expect from our boys next season . Australian rugby league player Ben Czislowski has been playing for four months with an opponents tooth buried in his head. After several stitches put in a head wound after a clash of heads with (Matt Austin, who lost several teeth and broke his jaw), later suffered an eye infection and shooting pains, until a doctor discovered the offending item .
Seriously though, team spirit this season is going to be so important and the deciding factor in a successful campaign. It will be very interesting to see what team Pardew puts out against Scunthorpe, who will be hungry for an ex- premiership scalp on the opening day. There should be a good away following so I expect a crowd of over 24,000. My team for the opening day is
Weaver Moutaoukil McCarthy Diawara Gibbs Walton Reid Holland Thomas Dickson Varney
Subs : Randolph Bougherra Iwelumo Todorov Ambrose
Dickson has and is looking very promising and could be a great surprise this season, another Ian Wright in the making -you heard it here first.
Mad Dog Walton will be the steel in the middle and protect Reid to strut his stuff.

COME ON YOU REDS