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You cannot compare it really, a divison apart.

 

Viafara/Claus/Skacel/Bale/Baird/Alex/Rasiak/Saganowski (on form..)/Surman

 

world apart in terms of quality IMO.

 

let's not get carried away....with this current team we would struggle along in the bottom half of the champ.

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Davis - Davis

 

Harding - Bale

Murty - Wright

Jaidi - Baird

Perry - Lundekvam

 

Lallana - Skacel

Hammond - Pele

Schneiderlin - Guthrie

Waigo - Surman

 

Lambert - Jones

Connolly - Rasiak

 

Pardew - Burley

 

I'd agree with that - although you did miss out 2 goal John Viafara ;)

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Put pardew in charge of the start of the play off year. With all the money burley had.

 

We would have got promotion.. Probably as champions

 

Agreed, when you look back at that squad it was criminal that we didn't get promoted. Even after the team I posted there's still Saganowski, Viafara, Best, Blackstock, Idiakez, Bialkowski, Dyer etc not included.

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Agreed, when you look back at that squad it was criminal that we didn't get promoted. Even after the team I posted there's still Saganowski, Viafara, Best, Blackstock, Idiakez, Bialkowski, Dyer etc not included.

 

Was not Ostlund involved as well but Blackstock was gone

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Pardew didn't stop Charlton getting relegated in 2006-7.

 

Or Strachan getting Coventry relegated?

All managers go through bad times its how they deal with it that counts.

I agree with DD had we had a manager that wanted to be here and interested in the team then we would of automatically gone up with the players we had.

 

I will never forget Watford at home 2-0 down with 2 subs to use and he brings them on in injury time!

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Put pardew in charge of the start of the play off year. With all the money burley had.

 

We would have got promotion.. Probably as champions

 

Disagree. Pardew has said himself that he learnt a lot from his time at Charlton and now realises the mistakes he made. If he had come to us in the CCC instead of them, he would have made those mistakes with us IMO.

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Only because Burley was using him as a bit part player and seemed to prefer the awful Best. If he was picked more often, he would have stayed IMO.

 

Best didn't play until the end of that season.

And Blackstock was 19 at the time - AND Burley was proven right playing Rasiak and Jones up front as first choice strikers, don't you think?

If Blackstock wasn't prepared to fight for his place against two better strikers then that's his choice.

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Agreed, when you look back at that squad it was criminal that we didn't get promoted. Even after the team I posted there's still Saganowski, Viafara, Best, Blackstock, Idiakez, Bialkowski, Dyer etc not included.

 

Some of us said this at the time but we were drowned out by what used to be known as 'happy clappies' who considered finishing 6th on the last day of the season a very acceptable outcome. Apparently in Saint George-give-him-five-years-Burley they trusted.... for me GB is right up there with RL in the decline and fall of our club... all water under the bridge now and I am quite enjoying the present and looking fd very much to the next 5 years, loved the 80's clips posted up on the other thread.

 

Remind me who was 'Alex' reffered to further up the thread, sorry I'm a complete blank on that one.

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Some of us said this at the time but we were drowned out by what used to be known as 'happy clappies' who considered finishing 6th on the last day of the season a very acceptable outcome. Apparently in Saint George-give-him-five-years-Burley they trusted.... for me GB is right up there with RL in the decline and fall of our club... all water under the bridge now and I am quite enjoying the present and looking fd very much to the next 5 years, loved the 80's clips posted up on the other thread.

 

Remind me who was 'Alex' reffered to further up the thread, sorry I'm a complete blank on that one.

 

Alexander Ostlund.

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Best didn't play until the end of that season.

And Blackstock was 19 at the time - AND Burley was proven right playing Rasiak and Jones up front as first choice strikers, don't you think?

If Blackstock wasn't prepared to fight for his place against two better strikers then that's his choice.

 

I agree about the Rasiak, Jones partnership being first choice but if he had been fighting just those two for a place, he would have stayed. The management however, preferred Best and saw McGoldrick as the "next best thing". Then they signed BWP. Blackstock saw the writing on the wall (plus the chance to establish himself in the first team at QPR) so he understandably left.

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Disagree. Pardew has said himself that he learnt a lot from his time at Charlton and now realises the mistakes he made. If he had come to us in the CCC instead of them, he would have made those mistakes with us IMO.

 

Charlton was a poisoned chalice like our job was

he still got west ham prmototed and then to an FA cup final

 

I would like to think with the player we had and £7-8m he would have achieved better than scraping 6th and losing the first hurdle of te play offs

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James is better than Jesus by far - not great compliment tho!

 

No he isn't.

 

Just my opinion, but Ostlund was far better at winning the ball and in terms of pace and aerial ability. Ostlund got a lot of criticism for his positional sense, but I think it's a dead heat with James in that dept. In the playoff season we only lost 5 games in which Ostlund played. 4 of them were away, including a trip to Man City. 2 of them were against Brum and Sunderland, the League top 2 and in one of them he came on at half time when we were already losing and didn't concede again from then on.

 

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=38159

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For what it's worth, I feel we have a way to go to be as good as that (mis-managed) side. However, with Kelv/BB, Dan, Lally, Hammer, Lambo, DC and a better coach we have a decent base to surpass that. Steady building, team belief and embracing Pardew's vision may get us one step further in time.

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Charlton was a poisoned chalice like our job was

he still got west ham prmototed and then to an FA cup final

 

I would like to think with the player we had and £7-8m he would have achieved better than scraping 6th and losing the first hurdle of te play offs

 

Are you trying to say that Burley wasn't actually that bad, and that anyone would have been sh*t in the job?

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Pardew didn't stop Charlton getting relegated in 2006-7.

 

I don't know how much of a comparison Charlton's relegation from the Premier League is, especially since they started the season with Alan Curbishley I believe. But I think their relegation from the Championship was primarily down to the failed takeover bid from the Arab billionnaires. They had already identified which players they wanted to replace when the bid fell through at the last minute. Then the team lost all commitment since half the players realised they weren't really wanted.

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I don't know how much of a comparison Charlton's relegation from the Premier League is, especially since they started the season with Alan Curbishley I believe. But I think their relegation from the Championship was primarily down to the failed takeover bid from the Arab billionnaires. They had already identified which players they wanted to replace when the bid fell through at the last minute. Then the team lost all commitment since half the players realised they weren't really wanted.

 

I thought they started that season with Dowie, not Curbishley.

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Davis - Davis

 

Harding - Bale

Murty - Wright

Jaidi - Baird

Perry - Lundekvam

 

Lallana - Skacel

Hammond - Pele

Schneiderlin - Guthrie

Waigo - Surman

 

Lambert - Jones

Connolly - Rasiak

 

Pardew - Burley

 

You can still compare Davis with Davis. Are you saying he hasn't got better/worse?

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Davis - Davis

 

Harding - Bale

Murty - Wright

Jaidi - Baird

Perry - Lundekvam

 

Lallana - Skacel

Hammond - Pele

Schneiderlin - Guthrie

Waigo - Surman

 

Lambert - Jones

Connolly - Rasiak

 

Pardew - Burley

 

Interesting, but give me Hammond rather than Pele any day - what did he ever do for us (other than the obvious penalty)?

 

I'd also take the Lambert of now over the Jones of then (how people forget) - the Jones since he left, and just before, well that's a different kettle of fish.

 

On the other hand I'd take the Connolly of now over the Rasiak of now, but probably not over the Rasiak of then.

 

I think that makes sense?:confused:

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I'd take either goalie now over either goalie then. Both have improved a lot since the playoff season. I'd also have Murty ahead of Wright or Ostlund. Other than that, out strongest XI three years ago is stronger is every other position.

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I can't believe anyone rates Pele over Hammond either, even DM Pele rather than dubious CB Pele.

 

DM Pele was one of our best players in that season. He was excellent. A crap centre half yes, but I'd have him ahead of Hammond. West Brom paid £1m for him.

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DM Pele was one of our best players in that season. He was excellent. A crap centre half yes, but I'd have him ahead of Hammond. West Brom paid £1m for him.

 

Yes and did exactly what with him - hardly been a regular has he? Compare the £1m received for him with that shelled out for Lambert - the best bit of business (OK the two deals were unrelated, I know) since Davies went to Blackburn for Zillions and Beattie came the other way for half a crown.

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