Positives from tonight

StanmoreAddick

A point- although it feels like 2 dropped!

Ambrose- transformed! (hopefully it's for more than one game)
Baby Bent- Scored! nuff said!

Passion- Fans, players and management! ( my voice has gone!)

Leadership- Pardew didn't try to kick every ball- he just stood back and told the players what to do. ( spent a considerable of my time watching him and his body language tonight- happy so far!)

Belief- Hope so!

Bring on the Villa!- Three points needed/required/ Essential!

scruffle

ambrose got betta and betta as game went on, althou really needs go to the gym he's so so weak, but atleast he was tryin

Mark

I think we need to wait for the Prozone stats before we can comment on the positives from the match.

Hillsys Up

I watched the game on Telly last night and Pardew's interview before the game was inspiring....This man knows how to get players going. It did not feel like Charlton when he was being interviewed, more like another club when you see their manager speaking to the press, you think, that bloke know's his onions....

Fulham were bad and were lucky. We was the old Charlton who got stuck in and did not let them settle to much on the ball. I'm a little concerned about the amount of freekicks we gave away around the box though, with a good dead ball specialist, it could have been good night very early.

Ledge

Iwas watching Pardew quite a bit and when ever there was some sort of mistake he was writing it down then pointing to the dug out.

When I watched some of the game on TV he was telling Kinsella to watch it on the dugout monitor - Kins didn't look happy at the 1st goal -

Anyroad - performance was million times better but then that wasn't hard. Biggest transformation Marcus Bent - have not seen him run that much

AFKABartram

if i'm honest i find it hard to take any short-term positives from last night as i think it will prove to be the game that relegates us. There are very few winnable games when you're in our position, and home to an injury-ravaged Fulham is definately one of them. Its been said 10 times already this season, but Villa is now THE must-win game or its goodnight vienna.

Long-term i'm positive though. I know with Pardew that if we go down, we won't go down again, and that was something that was looking a possibility to me a week ago.

Hillsys Up

Dan, look on the bright side..under Reed we would have never been in the position that we was last night. With 30 seconds to go to get 3 big points and then for the dwarfy lino to give a dodgy one. The players looked like they wanted it and had that fight. Last week, i think not!! I'ts going to be hard, but why there are points to play for we can do it.

AFKABartram

that's what does me in. Pardew is being branded a hero already because the players played with a bit of heart, but that should be the one given thing every game by a professional footballer.

We were getting excited by something that is the minimum you should see every game.

SX_Addick

Fair point, but the fact is that we weren't getting those performances last week. How can basically the same players be so poor at Boro (another winnable game cos they were not much better than us) yet 5 days later play with so much more passion?

Hillsys Up

100% right mate..but it's like anything. You have to want to play, and it's very obvious now, Reed's appointment was incorrect, as the players did not want to play for him, atkleast they showed that may want to play for Pardew on last nights performance...It's early days, but...we shall see how much they want it again on Saturday.

Salad

[cite]Posted By: Mark[/cite]I think we need to wait for the Prozone stats before we can comment on the positives from the match.

:-))

Solidgone

[cite]Posted By: Hillsy's Up[/cite]100% right mate..but it's like anything. You have to want to play, and it's very obvious now, Reed's appointment was incorrect, as the players did not want to play for him, atkleast they showed that may want to play for Pardew on last nights performance...It's early days, but...we shall see how much they want it again on Saturday.

"...the players did not want to play for him..."

I understand what is meant but its a crying shame that players cant be bothered to play for a manager when being paid £25K a week. What about playing for the fans or their self pride?

This, "I do not want to play for a manager" lark, whether he was the right manager or not has put our club in jeopardy of relegation and thus undoing all the good work thats been put into over the years whichis likely to result in a big step backward all due to these prima donnas.

Fuck em I say....I hope virtually all of em are on the transfer list....and good riddance!
All a bunch of prima donnas who have now put our club in a dodgy situation that could lose ££££££'s

Salad

I could have sworn that this post was called "Positives from last night"

I thought Marcus Bent had a really good game and was really up for it. I think he needs to feel wanted so the standing ovation should stand him in good stead for Saturday.

Holland and Kish had decent games too, although clearly this is an area wer must be looking to strenghthen. Sankofa did ok (although obviously needs to build up his ball throwing muscles).

Everything about Pardew looks good so far; if I was 100% behind Dowie (and I was) then I am 125% behind Pards. In echo to AFKA, I am no longer worried about successive relegations :-) (under Les I am afraid I was).

Mark

There was an interesting phone-in on R5 last week (featuring that Vince Nietzche fellow). I think that it was Tony Cascarino who was talking about this whole motivation, heart, confidence issue. His point was that players in this position do not lack motivation, the ke ingredient which makes the difference is BELIEF. I don't think that they believed that they could do it under poor old Les.

They clearly believe in Alan Pardew!

Solidgone

Salad - My apology. I'm so pissed off with the situation those lazy toads have put us in and then produce a gutsy display - thats kind of positive eh?

Rothko

The table would have looked better with the two extra points, a win off West Ham, and now Sheffield United have hit another sticky patch, we would have put pressure on them if we beat Villa.

Got to win the home games, and give a performance against a poor and getting poorer Chelsea side next month, and if Pards can get some belief on the road, then win the ones we can win there, going to Watford should be a game we would look to win, not draw.

Still believe, cause otherwise whats the point

StanmoreAddick

[cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]that's what does me in. Pardew is being branded a hero already because the players played with a bit of heart, but that should be the one given thing every game by a professional footballer.

We were getting excited by something that is the minimum you should see every game.

Very true-

But we weren't and in the space of three days we've got it back.

If we are relegated, and i think it's highly likely we will, we must going down fighting-can you imagine how many season tickets will be sold next season if we go down without battling to the end?

ThreadKiller

i think teams will be a lot less happier to play us now as opposed to the previous 6 weeks when they couldn't wait.

Hillsys Up

I agree Mr Rocket..

Salad

[cite]Posted By: Solidgone[/cite]Salad - My apology. I'm so pissed off with the situation those lazy toads have put us in and then produce a gutsy display - thats kind of positive eh?

- yeah, that's better :-)