Jones’ press conference’s
I wonder if I am the only person still watching Nathan Jones’ press conferences. Don’t worry you aren’t missing much, they are still very much sound bite rinse and repeat’s.
Front footed, aggressive, best pressers in the league, injured players are less injured than they were last week and my favourite, we need to be the best version of ourselves.
I want to like Jones I really do, and I think I could but I need to feel more empathy with him, and I am finding that really hard.
I could never wait for Lee Bowyer’s pressers. Jones tries to pass off that every comment comes from the heart, but Bowyer’s really did, even when they were a little excruciating.
Jones comes across as a little too smug, more clever than the rest of us, that unsettles me. Until of course he can prove that he is cleverer than us and to use one of his own expressions, a game changer.
A game changer to the ever decreasing circles of shit Charlton fans have had to put up with for the last decade, longer.
Not all, but the vast majority were fawning over him when he joined. I was, I know.
So, it’s not really if I can grow to appreciate him, it is how and what does he need to do to get fans back on side. Is it only about results? That would help.
Or am I suffering from the today’s requirement for instant gratification and insisting things happen at twice the speed than they used to. Curbs didn’t build Rome in a day.
Ain’t easy being a Charlton fan, is it?
I am going to stop with the press conferences, and hope that despite all the evidence pointing against it, Jones and his team can somehow pull it together on the pitch.
Promotion is a pipe dream, so for me it is not only about results, it is about seeing signals, signs, a demonstration that he is building something. Something tangible not just throw away lines.
isn’t that the problem? Week after week we are the best version of ourselves and it’s not pretty. It isn’t going to change based on everyone we have now . When you can only score one goal at best , it can never change
You see I am coming down the opposite end of the tunnel to you. I didn’t believe he had the pedigree to get us out of this division and the more he talked (and did he talk?) the more I was convinced I was right. Of course I wanted to be wrong but perhaps after 67 years and 30 managers I have at last learnt to set my expectations to underwhelming.
Without going into the ins and outs of whether it was his team I really believe this squad given the right coaching could have made an impact on the league. Of course you can always find faults with individuals or think of players you would rather but this lot are adequate.
So that leaves the question of why they are underperforming and that’s down to the coach and his tactics. No we need an experienced manager. No bulls shit straight down the middle man motivator who has done this many times and can do it again. It might not be pretty but hey! It’s not exactly Brazil now is it?
You have to be careful what you say nowadays so I won’t stoop to calling Jones a Welsh Windbag but ever since Birmingham what little glimmer of self doubt I had evaporated.
I hate it. I hate saying it but he has to go and go now. Come i number 31
He just bullies the press conferences with words like a chippier Nigel Adkins. We can all see it, the football stinks, the players are not good enough and the results agree. Yet week on week he comes out swinging like we are just blind to his genius. It feels like every season is rinse and repeat. This time last year we had Appleton, the year before Holden. The danger for the club is that the older fan base, who saw some success ,are getting older and there is nothing to attract the younger generation.
The “older fanbase” are also getting wiser! Personally, l cannot be arsed to drive from Norfolk for home games, contend with traffic congestion, have limited places to park, in order to watch third rate football. To top it all, l don’t want to then listen to a manager tell me that what l have witnessed is nothing short of a footballing masterclass. I was optimistic when the club appointed NJ but he is clearly no better than his recent predecessor’s. Results don’t lie. I predict that crowds will continue to decline in parallel with the extremely poor quality of football on display. That will not improve under the guidance of NJ. Why the Board gave NJ a five year contract is beyond comprehension. Was it on the advice of the 2nd rate Andy Scott? Little wonder he has gone quiet lately! What a mess!
I’ve made my opinion of NJ known on here several times. He lost me by forcing Alfie May out and has done nothing to regain my support.
He has to go. (He should have been sacked long ago) If he is still here for the January window, it will be another opportunity for on the pitch improvement lost.
Well,the transfer window is a few days away. We will be getting rid of the ‘dead wood’ and we will be buying an attacking midfielder, a wide man on either the left or right, two other midfielders that can both make telling passes ‘forward’on the floor, and a proper number 9 who can score 20 goals a season……Oh, and I believe in Father Christmas !!
I wrote my letter to Father Christmas and posted it to the North Pole for the elves to read and as I’ve not been a naughty boy I hopefully will get us some wins, promotion push and a happier Valley……nice to dream….ho ho ho !!!
One of my wishes came true today….thank you 🎅
I seem to agree with lot written here, up to a point. Clearly we don’t have owners or a chairman who understand the need to back the manager with more than words. Charlie says the owners have back the manager, I’m sorry I cannot see where. Yes money was spent, Mostly the money from May & Talor. At the end of the last transfer window it was clear we were short, no wide players, nobody in midfield who can pass a ball and a defence with only one player who can head the ball. Plus we need a good goalkeeper. But I live in hope, I’m at Northampton & Crawley, hopefully better that Huddersfield, Sacking Jones is not a good option, Scott maybe but lets get some real players in who can improve and do something other than press, this press thing is pressing my patience, let’s try passing, turning with the ball and just winning, please it Christmas
Very true Sid. Good post.
Despite managers shortcomings they have continually been left short in transfer windows. I’m with you and that I can’t how much net money was really spent in the summer. But if Ahadme took most of the funds lawd help us.
I have a feeling also (not sourced) that other than Berry some of Jones’ ex-Luton signings were because he couldn’t or wasn’t allowed to get his first choices.
Conversely the whole wait until the January window story is getting very tiresome.
Guess we’ll see.
Sacking Jones is the BEST option. The man is an incompetent tw*t.
CA agree with you and most on here, but as I have said before, Jones is living on the past, similar to Atkins was! Jones believes by bringing in his old Luton mates from four to five years ago he can repeat the same thing as he did at Luton along with the same tactics etc, as Atkins found out, things move on! What I don’t understand is, how once again the Board/Owners have swallowed all this bullshit yet again by another manager who after their one goodtime time at just one club, have since failed twice afterwards miserably at two different clubs?
it’s easy, john Robinson, shaun Newton, Mark Kinsella. Bob’s you uncle.. promotion
I don’t remember Bob Uncle 🙂
Well what a diffrence a few days make – nothing wrong with todays press conference and a nice warm glowy feeling just in time for Christmas. We certainly were the best version of ourselves today, and to all those people who say we cant scrore more than one – you’re just lucky i cant find the one finger emoji. Onwards and upwards in NJ we trust. Have a very Happy Christmas all. ❤
An excellent result today, albeit against a very poor opposition.
Three very welcome points and an improved goal difference !
However one good performance does nothing to change my opinion of N.Jones. It does though, almost certainly mean the SMT will not act, but will leave him in charge, sadly.
A great result today, and a good all round performance, but we are so inconsistent, what’s the betting we drop points against Cambridge on Boxing Day. I really do hate to be pesimistic, but that’s what being a Charlton supporter is these days !!!