A battling display from an assortment of Addicks bravely held Welling United to a 1-1 at Park View Road, maintaining their grip on the illustrious Crown Paints Trophy.
A visit to Park View Road for the annual Welling fund-raiser has in recent years been like visiting a nan you rarely see; you look forward to it and have fond memories from your childhood, but give it an hour and you can't wait to get away.
Charlton displayed their new kit and sponsor for the first time. The kit appeared a slightly crisper version of the Centenary shirt, with a vertical white band down the side, while the new sponsor krbs (Kent Reliance Building Society) looked from a distance to be either Kurbs or Krabs, depending on how your mind operates.
Elliot's pound-shedding boasts were certainly backed up with a clearly more trim and agile appearance.
Charlton had by far the better of the first half; a powerful Mambo header from a corner was disallowed, with only the referee in the ground feeling that the young giant was guilty of climbing. A good interchange on the right saw Sam pull back from the byline to Dickson, who from a yard out and with the goal at his mercy fired directly at the bewildered keeper. A number of other half chances could easily have been taken but cutting edge was clearly lacking and the opening eleven ended their work goalless.
Of those from the first half, Spring and Stavrinou were neat and tidy in the middle, Sam was relatively busy down the right, Tuna appeared completely passed by on the left, Dickson and Burton had good movement and there could possibly be a potential of a partnership there, but hitting the target is what its all about. At the back, Mambo did little wrong but Llera didn't give the greatest of first impressions. Slightly cumbersome, and more distribution errors than successes lent the impression it was more Bobby Ball than Bobby Moore. Big lad though, and certainly looks like he will be a physical presence. Fortune could fit nicely beside if he signs.
All change player-wise in the 2nd half, a couple of non-impressing trialists were thrown into the mix, and we upped the tempo from the KO. A ball across the box saw Wagstaff fire impressively across the keeper into the top right corner. That sadly proved to be the best spell. Welling scored from an identical cutback to the one Dickson missed, and after that the game become a lot more even, with plenty of huff and puff, but no clear cut chances. Wagstaff looked more into a game than i have seen before, Shelvey looked his usual stylish self, and seeing a centre half pairing of Samedo and Basey showed just how short we are in that area, though the pair did little wrong.
Hopefully this was the game that the players needed to just get a run into their legs. But i'm sure we said that last year. And the year before.
Phil Parkinson didn't say after the game "Its an impressive start. You really got to give it to the lads to get themselves up to this level after just a week of training."
"Everyone knows there are no easy games in football any more, and not even Manchester United would approach a trip to Park View Road without trepidation. It was backs to wall, but we've proved that we are no pushovers and i've just left a very, very happy dressing room"
"I won't get carried away. I'm not suggesting anything crazy like we might actually win a game at some stage. But i think it was clear to everyone of those leaving the ground that this could be the start of something special. And that something special could well possibly be a behind closed doors friendly with Thamesmead Town".
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“It’s just a little bit too early for us,” said Ford. “We’re not really organised yet".
“We’ve only had two or three (training) sessions, got a couple people away on holiday still, one or two injured still.
“I don’t want the fans to think too much about what’s going to happen on the night. We will be stronger in future games.”
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Thank Christ they didn't have their first team out !
He was the Spanish trialist, Truy
Big lump up front would have been better. Sorry imo, it was no, por favor.
I've found him at last...someone with a worse left foot than me
Joking apart he did look shakey..but it's his first game so plenty of time to improve
Surely you mean, No, Gracias
Parky's comments I'm sure are spot on too.
Although he forgot to mention that we have carried our great unbeaten run on, the new draw specialists.
By the way, I think you mean Centenary shirt rather than Millennium - the club's not quite that old!
I thought it was said on the OS that moo2 was to be released a few months back?!?
No, he signed a 4 year deal and has 2 more years to go. He'll be sold or loaned out. Think you must be getting him confused with another player.
apologies if these already posted elsewhere
Amazing miss
Why did Welling change shirts at half time?
http://www.wellingunited.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=17&page=3
Loads more there, click on the thumbnails, then click on the picture, huge resolution versions.
Probably just have the one strip of blue shirts and one 2nd strip of white shirts - players that came on at half time wouldn't fancy putting on sweaty shirts from players just replaced I guess, lol
Charlton started in shirts numbered 1 to 11 for the first half, and high numbers in the 2nd half, so they had a red shirt allocated to each player.