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Ismael has given up on pretending he’s bothered about getting results. He’ll get a nice fat bonus for giving full league debuts to the kids.

I’m just waiting for him to go full Kean and state “There is no chance we will be relegated”. I reckon either him or Gestede will come out with that line before the end of Feb.

That’s the entire culture of the club now. No accountability anywhere.

Pickering is one of a handful of players we have who has proven to be of consistent Championship quality for a few years. Ridiculous he isn’t playing. He’s also probably our best set piece taker. Toth Atcheson O’Riordan Pratt Alebiosu Pickering Baradji Tronstad Forshaw Ohashi Jorgensen But seeing as Ismael is under no pressure to get results and nobody at the club apart from the fans gives a shit if we win or lose, I expect we will see Henricksson up front and a load of Gestede’s other failed gambles struggle for 90 minutes.

Unfortunately Powell, Dlamini and Doherty are all miles off it physically. Even more unfortunately De Neve, Henriksson and Gardner-Hickman are miles off it ability wise. The rest are mostly bog standard at best. The lack of quality in our squad is criminal.

Forgotten man Jake Garrett coming back to fitness too. He looked good under JDT but his career has dropped off a cliff since. Still prefer him to Tavares.

It’s definitely going to happen over the next 3 weeks, but on what date will Gestede claim: ”Lewis Miller was always intended to be a right wing back”

It’s been mentioned several times publicly. Waggott did so soon after Ismael’s appointment. The rest of the brain trust did so at subsequent fans forum meetings. The first one attended by Adam Owen particularly had a lot of discussion around it. Pretty sure it was touched on in one of the ill advised sit down propaganda pieces/“fan engagement videos” too

Ismael won’t care about that. He is targeted and earns bonuses based on giving academy players debuts and minutes. I’m actually surprised he seemed a bit reluctant in the earlier part of the season. Perhaps he’s now twigged that expectations and standards are virtually zero, and that the accumulation of points isn’t that important to his bosses. I expect we will see at least half a dozen more academy players debut by the end of the season.

Pains me to say it, but David May over Taylor

Random thought Gueye is a better player than Ismael is a manager.

I think every single Charlton player who started their last game would make our first 11. They battered us in the reverse fixture and were probably the most dangerous looking opponent we’ve faced. Seems as though they are on something of a resurgence at the moment and will start really pulling away from us in the table tomorrow. Toth Miller O Riordan Pratt Gardner-Hickman Powell Tronstad Cantwell Montgomery Ohashi Hedges Just a few changes for the sake of it really

Make no mistake, this is the lowest point of the entire wretched Venky’s ownership. Even in the Kean/Anderson days there were at least some people at the club with the right intentions. These are now practically non-existent. The old argument of “hardworking staff behind the scenes” is dead. They have either been forced out already or are so scared of being so that they are beaten into submission. There might be the odd one, but by and large Suhail has created a culture of fear. The people with the most power at the club - Suhail, Gestede, Yasir Sufi - all have their own agendas, none of which are about a successful football club. We’ve got a poor manager who I hope does his usually trick of giving up when the going gets tough. And do we have a single player who ticks all these three boxes: Likeable, up to standard, resilient enough to play a full season? It’s little wonder apathy has completely taken hold, but we really need to get angry. It’s harder and harder to keep caring, but let’s keep our hatred for those responsible burning. Now is the time to make a stand by whatever means we can.

Easiest day he’s ever had at Ewood

Maybe rather than Gueye not running enough this lot have all been running too much. We looked like we’d been playing for 3 hours from the first minute.