Charlton Athletic fan Paul Sullivan says the club's owners need to fund incomings in the January transfer window to avoid relegation.
They say beating Millwall is the shortest route to a Charlton fan's heart.
Back in June 2016, the late, great Kevin Nolan of the South London Press told the incoming Addicks manager at the time, Russell Slade, exactly that. Fast-forward nearly a decade and we're still waiting.
In fact, it's nearly 30 years since our last win at The Den and those scars deepened again with a humiliating 4-0 defeat.
Just 3.75 miles separate us, but right now it feels like a footballing chasm. Realistically, these local rivals could be two divisions apart next season.
Seven minutes in, we were already chasing shadows after calamitous defending.
By the time the second goal was conceded from a corner, you could see what was coming - another derby day collapse. Charlton's lack of fight was glaring.
Losing the 50-50s, showing no bite, no belief.
Nathan Jones put it bluntly afterwards: "We treated it as a day in the sun." For a game of this magnitude, that's unforgivable.
The stats say it all. Millwall's 23 shots to our three, expected goals 3.91 to 0.14, touches in the opposition box 57 to 11. Those numbers scream a side that was bullied and beaten in every department.
Fans calling for Jones' head will feel justified - humiliation like this always stings. Yet we're still out of the bottom three, which, two years ago, you'd have bitten someone's hand off for. But something needs to shift fast.
A massive reset needs to occur on the training pitch and in the classroom at Sparrows Lane this week.
The owners need to dig deep into their pockets and get some proven quality into the side.
Otherwise, the big derby day we'll be looking forward to next season could be Bromley FC.
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