Sigh. Charlton losing always feels like a punch in the face.
Christmas is coming and the smell of mulled wine, spiced cider and excitement gently pollutes the air.
And then Charlton lose, and I'm reminded just how much I hate (in no particular order) Roland and his sidekick, football, life, the cold, people in general, pretty much everything.
Seems it wasn’t a complete disaster. We lost away from home to a team in good form and one that will be there or there abouts come the reckoning. Probably not our first choice eleven either.
Wake up call and timely reminder to the owner and coaching staff that January is going to be an important month.
Wake up call to Duchalet? Erm honestly Shooters......do you think he gives a flying f***!
How did we lose that ? Was the best team but with no penetration. 2 wonder goals - could maybe fault Amos for wall for first, but second noone would have stopped- a stonking strike. Aside from those Scunthorpe were shit.We werent much better.
Win Tuesday and not too much damage done I don’t think anyone seriously thought we would be top 2, we’ve faced 2 promo rivals and conceded 5 and scored 0 so take from that what you will, think we’re thin wjth the squad but then we all knew that, the guy that runs our twitter account is quite irritating keep banging on about how magnificent there goals were and we played well etc, doesn’t matter we lost 2-0 points on the board count. Must take our chances and get a striker in jan josh can’t do it all.
How did we lose that ? Was the best team but with no penetration. 2 wonder goals - could maybe fault Amos for wall for first, but second noone would have stopped- a stonking strike. Aside from those Scunthorpe were shit.We werent much better.
I thought we played some lovely stuff and were the better team and certainly the classier throughout. Two goals came against the run of play and both out of the blue. Two nil flattered them. We did not deserve to lose this game on both footballing ability and effort. Simply a bad day at the office.........shit happens!
Nothing to overreact too, just a bad day for us against an in form team, maybe a reminder that we are a good League 1 team but not a great League 1 team yet, we need some extra quality to arrive in January if we are going to really go for an automatic place and avoid the lottery of the playoffs.
I never expect us to win at norvern backwaters in winter.
Sadly most of this league seems up that way
Cheer up we've already won at Rotherham, Oldham, Fleetwood and Bradford.
I know, I was being tongue in cheek and meant historically rather than this season.
If I'm honest, I never expect Charlton to win full stop!
I never thought I'd see the day, when Golfie is looking like one of our more optimistic posters. This was our first league defeat since September 16th, thanks to 2 great strikes, against the form team of the division, who have won 6 on the bounce
How bad was Marshall's miss? If we'd gone 1-0 up, I suspect we'd have got more as they chased the game. We desperately need a clinical finisher in January.
Bad. Again. He was clean through, as he was against MK Dons, and let the keeper pounce on him with a poor touch.
Though all around he was very poor today. His crossing was anywhere from erratic to awful. And he's now missed a fair few chances. Nothing terrible that can't be undone with a couple goals, and after such a long layoff it's completely reasonable that it takes a while to get back up to speed. But I think he's gotten off a little easy given the stick Ben Reeves has gotten (not wrongly). Both were out for a long time and both are making their way back to form and full fitness.
there's a reason Marshall has spent his time knocking around the lower leagues. He's not very good. He's 32 now, nothing's going to change.
Just back in from the match. Unbelievably cold and a proper shithole ground but the locals seemed pretty friendly.
Very close encounter separated by two quality strikes although we created the better chances overall. We really lacked any creativity going forward and the squad is starting to look very thin. Konsa and Bauer were a class above and apart from one blinding Amos save, they snuffed out everything. Personally we thought Marshall had a poor game, while he was beating his man, the end product was awful. Hackett-Fairchild looked lost when he came on and really highlight our lack of options to change it up.
I was impressed with the initial reaction to going one nil down, the players immediately looked to respond but the second goal in such quick succession completely knocked the stuffing out of them.
Overall a sub par performance from an under-strength team. Unless we are incredibly lucky with injuries we have to strengthen in January to stand any chance of automatic promotion, otherwise we are just going to have the same problem we have had every year under this owner.
Unlucky, realistically I think our way up is play offs, early days but that's how I see it. Few points ahead of Pboro and Pompey, hopefully get the points from them games, get out of sight a bit more and go from there
Sigh. Charlton losing always feels like a punch in the face.
Christmas is coming and the smell of mulled wine, spiced cider and excitement gently pollutes the air.
And then Charlton lose, and I'm reminded just how much I hate (in no particular order) Roland and his sidekick, football, life, the cold, people in general, pretty much everything.
Hey ho
If there’s one thing I hate after we lose, it’s you happy clappers, with your rose tinted specs
Everybody seems to be saying, wait till January, and we get a descent striker. Where from? A striker who is anywhere near half descent, will have been snatched up already, and his club will hang onto him like grim death. Can you see Dutchulet, shelling our the money needed to prise such a player away? May be I will have to eat my words come January, but somehow I don't think so.
I never expect us to win at norvern backwaters in winter.
Sadly most of this league seems up that way
Cheer up we've already won at Rotherham, Oldham, Fleetwood and Bradford.
I know, I was being tongue in cheek and meant historically rather than this season.
If I'm honest, I never expect Charlton to win full stop!
I never thought I'd see the day, when Golfie is looking like one of our more optimistic posters. This was our first league defeat since September 16th, thanks to 2 great strikes, against the form team of the division, who have won 6 on the bounce
We are there or there abouts I predict we kick on from January Next 3 aways are Blackburn, Southend and Wigan if we take 3 points from them games I'm happy. By the end of the year as the table stands we will only have to play Shrewsbury away out the top 6. We've just lost away to Scunthorpe and still averaging over 1.5 points away from home. My advice is have a little nibble on the 20s on us to win the league Don t get too down hearted if were not picking up the points away from home before the end of the year. Our odds might go out to 40 50/1 by the end of the year my advice then is to pile in at them odds. Them sit back from January to May and watch them prices drop as we storm to the league title.
Interested in other's opinion on this... although this is our first loss in a while, if you look, our scoring is wayyyy down. We are scoring 0 and 1 a lot and are barely beating teams we should thump. I feel like our form has dropped consistently the last 6-7 matches even though out points per match is decent in that stretch. I feel like we are about to fall out of top 6. Thoughts?
We won't make the top two without signing someone who can make something of the opportunities we create. Too many costly failings in front of goal. Even IF we make a couple of good signings in January, the task would still be difficult. I'm not yet convinced we will even hold on to a play-off place, sadly
Pissing about in Bluewater seeing Father Christmas wasn’t improved as I risked the wrath of the mrs by glancing at my phone rather than track where the kids were and seeing we’d eventually gone 2-0 down led to an immediate mood swing in the camp as a couple of the boys were prolly more pissed off than me .
7% Automatic promotion ........71% Play offs ........... 22% 7th-12th
Everybody seems to be saying, wait till January, and we get a descent striker. Where from? A striker who is anywhere near half descent, will have been snatched up already, and his club will hang onto him like grim death. Can you see Dutchulet, shelling our the money needed to prise such a player away? May be I will have to eat my words come January, but somehow I don't think so.
Interested in other's opinion on this... although this is our first loss in a while, if you look, our scoring is wayyyy down. We are scoring 0 and 1 a lot and are barely beating teams we should thump. I feel like our form has dropped consistently the last 6-7 matches even though out points per match is decent in that stretch. I feel like we are about to fall out of top 6. Thoughts?
Yep, I agree wholeheartedly. We just don't score enough goals to get promotion, beit automatic (no chance) or via the play-offs. This is not a league where you do an Arsenal an win 20 games 1-0. If you look at the other top 6 sides (I'm putting Pompey in there) I bet they've scored 3 or more goals more times than us. I can only think of 2 games where we've done this (Northampton & Oldham) and on most occasions we struggle to score more than 1. Pathetic.
I know this may sound like another post defeat moan, but I have been saying this all season, and probably even before that. I concede that Novak probably had to go if he was unhappy (even though I would have done a Liverpool & just told him no) but did we really also have to let Watt & Ajose go without replacing them. Both left way before transfer deadline day so it was hardly a fait un complete, It may be down to RD and his "purse strings" but KR has said publicly (and I was there for one of them) that he has been left alone to make the transfers & so its down to him that we find ourselves with just one main striker, 2 youngsters as back up (who are also not physically up for this league) and a loanee who couldn't get a game if the rest of the team went down with dysentery an hour before a game.
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Not bad efforts
Erm honestly Shooters......do you think he gives a flying f***!
2 wonder goals - could maybe fault Amos for wall for first, but second noone would have stopped- a stonking strike. Aside from those Scunthorpe were shit.We werent much better.
First was picked up by a crosswind.
Second was a complete mishit.
Don't sign him in January.
Sadly most of this league seems up that way
Two goals came against the run of play and both out of the blue.
Two nil flattered them.
We did not deserve to lose this game on both footballing ability and effort.
Simply a bad day at the office.........shit happens!
If I'm honest, I never expect Charlton to win full stop!
This was our first league defeat since September 16th, thanks to 2 great strikes, against the form team of the division, who have won 6 on the bounce
Very close encounter separated by two quality strikes although we created the better chances overall. We really lacked any creativity going forward and the squad is starting to look very thin. Konsa and Bauer were a class above and apart from one blinding Amos save, they snuffed out everything. Personally we thought Marshall had a poor game, while he was beating his man, the end product was awful. Hackett-Fairchild looked lost when he came on and really highlight our lack of options to change it up.
I was impressed with the initial reaction to going one nil down, the players immediately looked to respond but the second goal in such quick succession completely knocked the stuffing out of them.
Overall a sub par performance from an under-strength team. Unless we are incredibly lucky with injuries we have to strengthen in January to stand any chance of automatic promotion, otherwise we are just going to have the same problem we have had every year under this owner.
Next 3 aways are Blackburn, Southend and Wigan if we take 3 points from them games I'm happy.
By the end of the year as the table stands we will only have to play Shrewsbury away out the top 6.
We've just lost away to Scunthorpe and still averaging over 1.5 points away from home.
My advice is have a little nibble on the 20s on us to win the league Don t get too down hearted if were not picking up the points away from home before the end of the year.
Our odds might go out to 40 50/1 by the end of the year my advice then is to pile in at them odds.
Them sit back from January to May and watch them prices drop as we storm to the league title.
Even IF we make a couple of good signings in January, the task would still be difficult. I'm not yet convinced we will even hold on to a play-off place, sadly
7% Automatic promotion ........71% Play offs ........... 22% 7th-12th
100% Roland Out
I know this may sound like another post defeat moan, but I have been saying this all season, and probably even before that. I concede that Novak probably had to go if he was unhappy (even though I would have done a Liverpool & just told him no) but did we really also have to let Watt & Ajose go without replacing them. Both left way before transfer deadline day so it was hardly a fait un complete, It may be down to RD and his "purse strings" but KR has said publicly (and I was there for one of them) that he has been left alone to make the transfers & so its down to him that we find ourselves with just one main striker, 2 youngsters as back up (who are also not physically up for this league) and a loanee who couldn't get a game if the rest of the team went down with dysentery an hour before a game.