Nigel Adkins is the new manager at Charlton with him succeeding Lee Bowyer and he'll be looking to try and help the Addicks into the play-offs come the end of the season, alongside assistant Johnnie Jackson.

A man that's earned promotion from League One before with the likes of Southampton, he'll be aiming to do the same again at The Valley.

Will he prove to be a good appointment, though? Our writers discuss...

Charlton Athletic are a team who have the potential to go all the way in the League One promotion race this term, but it will be tough.

With Lee Bowyer moving on they needed a boss who would come in and lift the spirits of those in the squad and I believe that Nigel Adkins can do just that.

A top-six finish is firmly on the cards and with a new boss in charge I believe that they'll just squeeze into the play-off spots.

I think he's the perfect manager to take them forward. Adkins has been unlucky at his last couple of jobs, and I don't think it would be fair to judge him at all on his last role in charge of Hull City, as he had to deal with a number of off-the-field restrictions. Charlton are a team that haven't been at their best this season, but they're still in contention for a top-six finish, which remains a possibility still. He's a manager that is often looking for the positives in any situation, and I think that's what Charlton need at this moment in time. He ticks all the boxes for me, and I think they're in with a serious chance of promotion with him in charge.

It’s a really surprising one and it’s an appointment that has come out of the blue. I have respect for Adkins for the job he did at Hull. It was never a happy camp behind the scenes there, but he guided them to 13th in 2018/19 before leaving at the end of the season. He knows what it takes to win promotion, however, his last promotion came in 2010 with Southampton, so I do fear that the EFL has become a lot more competitive since then. But he is a vastly experienced manager and a knowledgeable pair of hands, and he will know how to manage expectations of being in charge of a big club. Charlton are in a good position in League One and they should get a bit of a bounce from this.