I love this club, but it broke my heart today to see us no better than a pub side.
Why did he take all the pace off (Reid not included)?
Why was our goalkeeper our smallest player (when Reid went off)?
Just a mid table lump it up to inept lumps up front, I am truly shocked tonight, I knew we were average but that was a disgrace
I know we can't afford to sack him, but he is slowly killing my team
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The keeper was our best player so that's pretty irrelevant. Agree with the rest.
Was Worner our smallest player? I think he is around 6ft- ok height for a keeper.
Through thick and thin.
Charlton till i die.
It's in my blood and i would go whatever division we were in or team we had.
I would say that's a bit much, but we were certainly good. I'm not going to stop going to matches just because we have a good half followed by a bad one. But if you want to that's up to you.
And that seems to happen a lot, even last season I remember that a few times.
The issue is confidence in my view and once that penalty was given it ebbed out of the players and we forgot all the good things we'd done previously.
Parky will be gutted after today, we are not talking about arrogant twat couldn't give a toss as long as I've got my money Pardew here. Give the man some support and let him finish the job he has started.
It doesn't seem like it after the disappointment of drawing with the bottom team in the division but Parky IS rebuilding the Club along the right lines.
I like the bloke and to me he has something of Curbs about him which is a good thing and a proper Charlton thing.
You may be right but how long do we wait and how low do we drop before we realise your wrong?
Dowie and Pardew were to blame for our two relegations and Club morale was rock bottom.
We were a missed penalty away from a play off final under Parky last season and he has had to rebuild as players have left. He deserves a bit more time than 8 games to get his team playing.
As to how long do we wait I'd look at it towards Christmas if things still aren't working. Somewhere around 20 league games in other words.
EDIT: The guy who sits next but one to me brought his girl friend to her first game of the season today and she commented on how few players she recognised from last season. That tells its own story I reckon.
Plus, if you can't be confident at home to the bottom club, then you really have got no hope !
Not as bad but definitely had the feeling about it that it was the sort of game where a manager can get himself the sack. I've never been one to criticise him with the time he's been in charge but constantly changing the starting lineup the way he has is not doing him any favours.
The players look really unfit too, probably because so many missed a full pre-season with us, but it'll be another criticism of the management and coaches if they're not brought up to speed soon enough.
They did play with confidence for 20 - 30 minutes. Then Racon and to some degree Semedo too went missing and you could see the confidence steadily evaporating as Dagenham came into it. The penalty (whether given rightly or wrongly) finished it off and in the second half we reverted to hopeful (but in practice hopeless) long ball punts from the back (partly because the midfield were still missing partly because Akpo is a lump) rather than the passing game which served us so well earlier in the match. When Racon realised he was in a football match rather than away with the fairies we strung together a nice move for Johnny Jackson's goal.
A third division lapse in concentration allowed them to equalise. We'll obviously never know but I'm sure Christian Dailly would have made sure the defence was on the ball for the last minute or two had he been out there.
Maybe Semedo is not the man to be captain.
One good season at Colchester and we have to put up with this just becuase he is a nice bloke and the players like him (I liked my drama teacher at school because he let us get away with murder!) His record at Hull was so bad that Phil Brown for crissakes had to be brought in!!
Come on Len they may have been pony buys but there was no way that dowie was given a fair crack of the whip
Would we be worse off if dowie or pardew had stayed , the real scary thing is I don't think we would
To his Credit :
- A bit like Curbs, smooth-talking nice-guy image
- Considering the dreadful financial situation of the club, we all agreed he did well with the transfers. Judgement on Benson is premature, many strikers have
very average starts with their new clubs. Won't name any so as not to start an uproar.
- Criticism of substitions are always dished out without any knowledge of the inside story. This will always be the case, everywhere, but I feel Parky's record
on substitutions is not bad.
The Negatives:
- No technical skills, no tactics. If one of our players is sent off, we know we're in for it cos he won't think of something clever to cope with probable change
of other team's tactics. If one of theirs is sent off, we know he won't come up with an unpredicable game-plan to make good use of the advantage.
- Man-management not good enough. In most of our games, our second half was of lesser quality than the first. It appears his "I told them to think
positive" speech during the break doesn't often work. Some players need a proper rollicking to get them going, Parky doesn't have the appropriate
character to do that.
Even if the players he has put together (miraculously) succeed in getting us to the play-offs, Parky is not our man for the future. Those who believe in him
think he has the capability of getting us back where we belong. This cannot be true, his shortcomings heavily outweigh his qualities.
We don't have the money to attract, among others, an O'Neill (he's available), or an Allardyce (if he can handle Diouf, he can handle Akpo), but if they have
the necessary badges, Kins or Breacker would probably do well for us at a price we can afford.
On the tactics and going down to 10 men, we're actually decent under Parky in those games. Orient and Bournemouth this season, Swindon last season, that's at least 3 games we ended up winning after a sending off (and two against Swindon).
And when Parky got sent to the stands, we drew!
of other team's tactics.
..............
The fact is that the two times this season we've been reduced to ten men we won the match.
Parky's substitutions used to be a bit reactive - shutting the stable door jobs, but he has been better over the last season. I'd be interested to know whether Anyinsah was injured or not properly fit, before holding forth on the wisdom of subbing him.
All in all we tend to look defensively organised under Parky, and yesterday was no different, where it falls down is in the attacking play. Parky was a defensive midfielder, Kins a CM and Breaker a defender, I'm wondering aloud here - but perhaps as a unit they are all a bit too defensively minded and they and our strikers/attacking midfielders aren't able to relate to each other. Maybe we need to get in a coach who has playing/coaching experience up the other end of the park from the goal mouth.