The Nathan Jones Appreciation Thread

[Patrick Bateman]

14 minutes ago, Turkish said:

didnt the bloke who wrote that get accused of insighting hatred or something?

I believe he was arrested for suggesting people get a gun ... no seriously! So it's not even recently the world has gone mad ... 

[suewhistle]

24 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

Not really publishable on a public forum Sue

I was thinking football related, but what happens in the Northam stays in the Northam.. I'll tell Sammy Saint to keep clear of you..

How about the Portsmouth football special to Southampton doesn't stop and they get taken on to Basingstoke?

[Miltonaggro]

11 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

I was thinking football related, but what happens in the Northam stays in the Northam.. I'll tell Sammy Saint to keep clear of you..

How about the Portsmouth football special to Southampton doesn't stop and they get taken on to Basingstoke?

Bournemouth when they've just played Leeds in an early kick off for TV, relegating them

[Dark Munster]

14 hours ago, sockeye said:

League One is where they deserve to be. As an old rhyme goes "just for a season it'll be fun, then fuck you all you Pompey scum"

 

[Pamplemousse]

Strong rumours he's going to Cardiff

Looks like he's bottling a return to St Mary's

[Midfield_General]

32 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Strong rumours he's going to Cardiff

Looks like he's bottling a return to St Mary's

If he walked out on Charlton, having finally found a fanbase that doesn't hate him and where he's actually started to deliver some success, to take the Cardiff job, back in the third tier and under a volatile owner, it would be the most Nathan Jones thing imaginable. 

Even more so if he then bollocksed it up and got sacked six months later. 

Edited June 1 by Midfield_General

[BarberSaint]

5 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

Strong rumours he's going to Cardiff

Looks like he's bottling a return to St Mary's

From which idiot? 

He's just got promoted and vindicated himself.

Unless he gets the boot, he'll be at Charlton.

[Matthew Le God]

7 minutes ago, BarberSaint said:

He's just got promoted and vindicated himself.

Unless he gets the boot, he'll be at Charlton.

Nathan Jones - "I grew up in the Rhondda valley where all my mates were Cardiff fans. I had the chance to sign for Bristol City or Cardiff and I signed for Cardiff. I worked on the turnstiles when I was an apprentice and then rushed and watched all the games. I love Cardiff City."

[BarberSaint]

2 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

Nathan Jones - "I grew up in the Rhondda valley where all my mates were Cardiff fans. I had the chance to sign for Bristol City or Cardiff and I signed for Cardiff. I worked on the turnstiles when I was an apprentice and then rushed and watched all the games. I love Cardiff City."

Are you trying to be clever? 

 

Taking a quote doesn't mean anything, but here's what he said after his team's play-off win:

 

“We’ve given it to a club that was going backwards and we had to arrest that before we could take it forward.

“It’s not just the results that have got us to the Championship, it’s the way we’ve done it. How we built and galvanised the football club and got everyone back to believing that Charlton can be a great club again. Because it is a great club with great people throughout.

...

“Great club. I came here wanting to build something. I took a gamble. I dropped two divisions, my last job was in the Premier League.

“But I knew I could build something. This is the first step. Now, we kick on.

“It’s outstanding. We put the work in. The staff put the work in. Players buy into gameplans and sacrifice everything.

“Families, everyone makes sacrifices; this is the reward.”

[thornhill_saints]

Still and always will be a grade one bell end though - End of.

[Weston Super Saint]

8 hours ago, BarberSaint said:

 

“Great club. I came here wanting to build something. I took a gamble. I dropped two divisions, my last job was in the Premier League.

 

I love that he drops that line in, whilst, conveniently, ignoring the fact that he was sacked from his last job for being absolutely fucking wank.

[Midfield_General]

46 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I love that he drops that line in, whilst, conveniently, ignoring the fact that he was sacked from his last job for being absolutely fucking wank.

Full quote: 

“My last job was in the premier league…”

”…where they realised pretty much instantly they’d made a terrible, terrible mistake and sacked me after 8 games, forcing me to drop down two divisions because literally no-one else would employ me.” 

Edited June 2 by Midfield_General

[Miltonaggro]

6 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I love that he drops that line in, whilst, conveniently, ignoring the fact that he was sacked from his last job for being absolutely fucking wank.

If he goes to Cardiff the Natty J consumption of Monster Energy, Wotsits and Elastoplast will be off the scale!

[goodymatt]

 

[sockeye]

No idea why people thought he would jump ship for Cardiff.

[Midfield_General]

Because he made a few suggestive, non-committal comments in the press to get them nervous that as a lifelong Cardiff fan he might be considering it, presumably to use as leverage in negotiations for a new, five-year contract.

Very few managers get offered five years, so he's played a blinder, to be fair. 

Edited June 6 by Midfield_General

[CB Fry]

1 hour ago, goodymatt said:

 

God's will.

[Dusic]

Nice show of faith from Charlton in a manager who selflessly dropped two divisions to bring them back towards where they belong.

From the Rhonda Valley to the Addicks Valley - good things happen to good believers.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

A good week for our failed managers

Juric to Atalanta, Martin to Rangers and Nate getting a bumper new contract.

 

[Saint Scott]

10 hours ago, goodymatt said:

 

5 years? What a shocker! Charlton are still riding the high of promotion and they're likely to be the main contender for relegation next year. 

The worst thing we did was offer Martin a bumper contract after our playoff win, look how that ended

[Willo of Whiteley]

Sacked by February 2026

[Holmes_and_Watson]

22 minutes ago, Saint Scott said:

5 years? What a shocker! Charlton are still riding the high of promotion and they're likely to be the main contender for relegation next year. 

The worst thing we did was offer Martin a bumper contract after our playoff win, look how that ended

I imagine there will be break clauses, allowing the club to part ways if...

His form matches that of his time with us.

His zealotry results in him burning heretics on pyres of broken ping pong tables

He takes his squad hostage because they went shopping with their wives

He chews his fingers off on live TV

He chews other people's fingers off on live TV

Switches jobs with Michael Sheen to star in "Pound for Pound:The best there is and other things all about me."

[Saint86]

On 06/06/2025 at 21:28, Saint Scott said:

5 years? What a shocker! Charlton are still riding the high of promotion and they're likely to be the main contender for relegation next year. 

The worst thing we did was offer Martin a bumper contract after our playoff win, look how that ended

Joking aside, he'll do well there and suits them for where they are at (they shouldn't have got promoted really - and its an achievement for Jones and his (pretty dire) football/tactics.

The fans love him, they don't have much money, and at this level his football is effective - They should be favourites to come 24th, but i suspect he'll keep them in the mix and wouldn't be surprised if he kept them up.

He was still an awful manager for saints, and his PR side is shocking for any club that has the media exposure of being in and around the top of the championship and premier league.