..,our supposed 12th man, was AWFUL today. Yes, we played very poorly but I have to say that the crowd is no help at all to the team at the moment in home games. I heard the first boo today after FIVE minutes. What on earth is that about??!! If I was playing for an opposing team I would relish the chance of playing us at the Valley. Unless we are 2 goals up in the first 5 minutes, the crowd gets on the back of the team & starts slagging them off. I have NEVER experienced an atmosphere worse than the one we currently have at the Valley. We all have to take our share of the blame for recent poor performances at home. The players must really dread going out to play a home game. We urgently need to sort our act out as well!!
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Sorry, you do what you like, but blaming poor performances on anyone other than the players and management is just plain ridiculous.
I think you are semi-correct with this point. The problem this season has been that it is clear in the first five minutes which version of Charlton have turned up. Against Palace/Stoke/Blackpool, the committed and talented version were on show and the crowd were aware of this from the off and the atmosphere reflected it.
Yesterday (and against colchester and QPR especially) it was obvious from the get go that the team were not up for it and the crowd responded by getting nervous and stroppy.
You would think Pardew would realise that and give the team the explicit instruction tog o out and bang a few tackles in very early on to get the crowd going. Then, hopefully there will be some kind of feedback loop thing going one, where the crowd get going and the team responds, which gets the crowd going even more etc etc...
And as usual it was the north stand 'ultras' around me that started moaning and cursing before anyone else.
for once i agree wih northstand - can;t blame us fans. We turned up in our droves again and quite frankly even I couldn't bring myself to sing yesterday. The playes have to do their bit to get the fans going and we never saw any of that
overall i am of the view that the players should inspire the fans. yet on tuesday we were at home to top of table bristol city. i think we came out of the traps really well and went 1-0 up inside 10 minutes. a few stray passes later and the sigh's and condeming of players could be heard. imo on that occasion the players didn't get the deserved response from the fans.
Fans are entitled to vent their frustration verbally but I wish we could be less like Tottenham and more like Man City in our approach as fans. I doubt whether yesterdays inept performance could have been lifted even if Billy Graham was giving one of his sermons.
where were the covered end ???????? Made a bit of noise for about 10 mins and then gave up -
The players should be out there giving us a performance, but sometimes the players need a lift too.I can't beleive how many of the crowd sit in total silence all through the game - bet they dont do that at home as most women & kids talk al the way through tv programmes.
Spot on
We can only do so much they are the ones who get paid to play no us
In fact seen more passion watching Sunday football
It was interesting that after Halfords umpteenth "thwack" up the pitch the crowd grew restless and booed. Now in my opinion this wasnt booing the actual act of the thwack or Halford, it was the concept of the thwack. Pardoo has constantly insisted that we are a footballing team, he has brought in footballers, Sinclair, Cook, Moo2, Varney but then just stands there as we twat the ball up for our diddy men.
We played Varney and Lita yesterday shouting out for balls in between the centre halves. If we were going to twat it play Gray and Iwullumo, and come out and say that's what we are going to do. Don't play us for fools.
Id much prefer to watch Moo2 or even Long than Halford. I also cant believe that Racon has been no where near the team given some of the shit on show.
If Scott Sinclair is ready for first team football then I'm a dutchman ...
Scott Sinclair more like Isla Sinclair ( Riscardo, you may not know who she is, as you are so young ;-) ).
When Pards did put on Big Chris he took off Halford, so who was going to pump the ball up to him?
Was Varney injured? I thought he and Matty were the only two playing in the first half. By taking Luke off, it left Holland as the only Charlton player to have a decent game.
Football is going down hill, way down hill!!and for what.....money!?
its all depressing!
I think allowances have been made for Sodje's injury. I was really getting anxious when he didn't move a muscle for so long.
As for Youga he wasn't great, in fact at times like when Priskin got away he was awful, but he kept working and didn't hide and I for one respect players who don't hide when playing badly.
I think 81 minutes was on the clock when I got to my seat