I'm back, we're back.

I've neglected this blog for almost a year now, but I saw it fitting to start writing again as Charlton start writing history again. Saturday was a fantastic day. Never in my lifetime have I seen Charlton lift a trophy, so it meant a lot to me. This season has been wonderful, and that can be put down, primarily, to one thing. No, not Chris Powell. I think our fans will forever be in debt to what Tony Jiminez and Michael Slater have done for our football club. Who knows, if they hadn't come in, there may have been no Charlton Athletic.

Of course, Chris Powell has played his part too, a fairly big one at that. At the end of the 2010-11 season, Charlton had just nine contracted players. Everyone expected a few players coming in, but nothing like the turnover of players that occurred. A total of nineteen players were signed between the end of May and the early September (not including those signed/sold in January), and two of those contracted players at the end of the season had left the club by the end of August. The vast majority of those that were signed, were young and determined players with League One experience, some of whom Chris Powell knew already. Michael Morrison has epitomised Chris Powell's methods. Signed for an undisclosed fee in early July, Powell knew exactly what he was getting, having played with him and coached him at Leicester City. Aged 24, and having already experienced winning a League One title, he fit the bill perfectly. After falling out of favour at Leicester, Morrison had joined Sheffield Wednesday in January 2011, but a change in manager no sooner had he arrived meant that Morrison was yet again struggling to hold down a place in the first team. Powell stepped in, and there was no need to ever look back. Almost an ever present this season, he has proven exactly what signing the right players can do for a club.