Nottm Forest away. What was the score? Lost 2-0 I've read enough about Saturday's game to make me thoroughly depressed. I was hoping that Pardew would try some of the youngsters, can they really be any worse than that crock of shit who pretend to be Charlton players, particularly when you look at Lloyd Sam's effort when he came on towards the end?

It is criminal that we are left 'supporting' some of these mercenaries and it completely chokes and disgusts me that they dare wear the same shirt as the one I have in my wardrobe and get paid handsomely for the honour, hah that's a laugh.

This season has been a disaster hasn't it? The kernel of which started long before Dowie, before Reed and before Pardew but the future has been made fundamentally worse by the club spunking £11m on players who are largely rubbish. I maintain that Dowie may have picked the players, although not all of them, but he DID NOT write the cheques.

Injuries are now crucifying us with our best players missing, the media are ripping us to shreads and we are in January and I'm sorry I have been a Charlton fan too long not to expect the board to sell Darren Bent this month and frankly Richard Murray et al have done nothing recently for me to have any faith in them.

I DO have faith in Alan Pardew though and if Pardew insists we sell Bent to rebuild the team, then I will go with it as he has a history of rebuilding teams, equally Rome wasn't built in a day and I do not see any advantage on us cashing in on Bent when we can't even secure the signing of an untested 18-year from Arsenal, with Anthony Stokes choosing mid-table Championship Sunderland over us, let alone 5 or 6 other players that will turn our season around.

Mind you if Murray still has that large plate of humble pie in front of him, then I bloody hope that he does not alienate the best thing to happen to us for a long while - Pardew - and go behind his back and flog Bent and even worse, flog him cheaply. Recent changes at the club give me some hope that Murray is allowing Pardew a wide berth in some crucial decision-making at the club.

The Forest game was another to add to the catalogue of embarrassments but like the Arsenal game it didn't mean anything. Next week is huge and Pardew knows he has some serious work to do. Pards is sure learning about his inherited players as he said and I hope we never have to see some of the players that yesterday disgraced the famous shirt again.

Opinions of those that were there: All Quiet; Addicks Diary; The Sun; cafc.co.uk; Guardian.
Super Al: "I'd like to think one or two players will recognise that the performance they put in today wasn't good enough for the standards I like to set and they either respond or I'm afraid they won't find themselves anywhere near the first team."  ¶ 21:30