Oh I do like to be beside the seaside; oh I do like to be beside the seaaaa…..
What seems like an endless and painful torture tolled out to us by Messrs Parky and his team of not so merry men – we venture down to Southend on Friday night to sample the dinky doughnuts and fish and chips while getting served up a dollop of football on the pitch.
After getting taught a lesson of perfect counter-attacking football last Tuesday by another seaside team we need to get back to our roots (hall) and get a win under our belts or it really will be a case of nervously looking over our shoulders at those in 7th/8th place.
Disillusioned, past-caring, boring, fed-up are just some of the words that people are describing Charlton and their performances at the moment and we really need to see a chink of light to get fans back on side and confidence flowing throughout the team. Will it come? I’m not too sure.
We have ‘played’ 3 games in 6 days on some heavy pitches and I really think certain positions in the team need freshening up for Friday. With Burton seemingly out of the game, the decision is whether to go 4-4-2 or 4-5-1. I’m tempted to go 4-5-1 giving Semedo back his place and then allowing Bailey and Racon Shelvey supporting, here we go, Akpo up front.
Although I rate Reid, I think his lack of match fitness is showing in the second half of games (as is Sam’s) and I think we should give Wagstaff a run out at the expense of one of the wingers. Hopefully Richardson will make it but I am comfortable at Solly filling in at right back.
Big away following, a classic away day, but a typical Charlton performance I’m afraid.
0-0.
Off you go…
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My Team would be:
Elliot
Richardson-Sodje-Llera-Jackson
Sam- Bailey-Shelvey-Reid
---Mooney-Mckenzie---
Would have to go 442, as i think without Burton none of our strikers are good enough to play 451. This team would do some damage, but the key would be shelvey & bailey both sitting when required
I think we'll lose 1-0 and it'll be a terrible game.
Don't think it really matters who we put out, nothing seems to be working
richardson - llera - dailly - semedo
wagstaff - bailey - spring - jackson
-shelvey-
-mackenzie-
still gonna lose though.
Dailly & Llera at the back.
0-1
So sticking my neck out and without a huge amount of conviction, I'm going for a 0-1 to us, Bailey to score against his old club.
I'd bring in Wagstaff and Shelvey to freshen it up and introduce some youthful hunger.
After lots of games that were almost 'must wins' but not quite, I think this one really is. Another failure on Friday night and I fear the season will fall apart iretrievably. If we can pull out if off, that will be two wins in a week; we can then try to forget Tuesday night's horrorr show and live to fight another day.
unfortunately at the moment though,it's parky still in charge and we look really crap.
2-1 southend.
a point will be most welcome to stop the rot and give our promotion push another boost
in all honesty it doesn't matter who he puts out cos collectively we're pony and the worse charlton side i've seen in my 33 years of following them but i still fancy us to make the play-offs (probably cos the thought of not making them is unthinkable)
COYR
and were leading or drawing against norwich for all but injury time... so not to be taken lightly
More worringly, they scored first and Norwich came back - something that has been beyond us of late...
That's why I've gone for a 0-1 to us. We have to keep a clean sheet because if they do score first, we're doomed!
As were we ;-)
They are half decent at home, gave us a good game at home and are due a bit of luck after the other night which proves they aren't playing too badly.
Mooney and Akpo up front is destined to be the worst forward line I have seen in all my years of following the club.
agreed
they did on tuesday............ charlton win 71 votes draw 10 votes brighton win 8 votes ;-(
GK: Elliot
RB: Richardson
CB: Dailly
CB: Llera
LB: Jackson
RM: Bailey
CM: Semedo
CM: Racon
LM: Reid
ST: Sodje
ST: Mooney
Would like to see Spring start instead of Racon but couldnt see it happening.
Would like to see Bailey on the right of midfield doing a Graham Stuart kind of job instead of playing on the left.
Stick Shelvey back on the bench aswell.
2-1 Southend
Elliot
Richardson
Llera
Dailly
Jackson
Wagstaff
Semedo
Racon
Bailey
Mckenzie
Mooney
More credible than arguing that we might have had a chance v Bristol Rovers if we'd been playing against ten men and the ref (who had already allowed over 100 mins in the game) had given us a bit longer to get the equaliser!!!
Thought that was the closest Parky has come to a Pardew moment. Any manager is always going to look for excuses when a mic is thrust in his face straight after losing , but I'd say he's usually quite dignified in defeat. Unfortunately, it's started happening a bit more regularly than it did in the first half of the season and so his dignity is inevitably being taxed a bit more!
That'll do it :-)
However, i'm going for as near to a comfortable away win as we are ever likely to get in Charlton terms.