"It was a terrible performance from us; I can't hide away from it. It's a performance I'm finding difficult to explain.
It wasn't three or four players who had an off day, everyone did. You can't say anybody played well. When that happens, there's normally an underlying reason. What that reason is, we'll have to sit down and search for it.
"We were flat from the first minute to the last. We made a couple of changes at half-time to try to give us a spark, but even the subs who came on didn't look right.
Apologies to our supporters.''
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I thought it was to Parky's credit that he not only apologised but didn't try to offer any excuses. He didn't even hide behind the fact that we played on Thurs night and admitted he could not explain what had gone wrong.
I hope he finds out before Tuesday night. But I do commend both his honesty and his acceptance that there can be no excuses for a pile of sh**e like that.
he had to say sorry thats the least i expected i wouldve sent the players back out at halftime and told them to sort it themselves and face up to it
Something was not right with the team. They just didn't look like the team they were last month.
Again, not his fault one tiny tiny bit today. Parky deserves a big positive reaction at the next home game.
Please tell me I am not the only person who feels sorry for Parky today? And the fact that he felt he had to say sorry aswell, really upsets me actually. By him doing this you can really see he really wants to be liked by us fans.
Again, not his fault one tiny tiny bit today. Parky deserves a big positive reaction at the next home
with you on that one mate
Glad you are, cheers mate
I have to agree with this. It is more likely not his fault if one or two are having an off day but if the whole team are then its something to do with the managment and coaching staff. He was right to apologise because he sent them out there and if he didn't know something was wrong with the whole team then he doesn't know his players very well. You must be able to pick up either in training or in the changing room that the team is flat.
Well Pardew would have blamed the act that the Wallsall fans have the south stand,we did not support the team enough, the players did not follow instructions, the board refused to let him buy Ronaldo.
Very few managers are quite so open, especially when sections of the crowd have apparently sung yr a c!
To me 75% players fault 25% management.
I know it sounds like I'm making excuses, but it does seem to happen at most clubs when there is some doubt about the ownership of the club.
I doubt that very much. We hardly know a thing about it , so i doubt it has any affect. If anything , some of the players who's contacts run out in the summer should be pleased we are being taken over and should be putting in maximum effort otherwise they could be going down the same road as Grant Basey or Izale Mcleod.
To be fair over the last couple of months we have been the form team in league one, Hopefully today was a blip.
dont agree with the people that called parky C--- not nice the blokes done ok with what he has at his disposal ,but he has got to do something in our rightback position because francis is absolute shite and i reckon most of us agree on here.
my only thought was that maybe they know that Parky is going when the takeover is complete. That would certainly account for how flat they are. Incidentally I wouldn't be happy if that happened, he deserves a crack until the end of the season now.
I doubt they KNOW anything, Large.
But it is quite possible that NOT KNOWING is enough to have unsettled them. It was admitted that the Zabeel saga unsettled the dressing room and it's quite possible the uncertainty is having a detrimental effect now.
The players don't know who their new employer is.
They don't know who their manager will be but are aware he is out of contract in six months.
They don't know if half of them are going to be replaced in the Jan window.
etc etc.
Not putting this up as an excuse. If Parky refused to make excuses for them, I'm not going to.
But uncertainty can gnaw at anyone and be quite corrosive. Especially as they probably had more time on their hands than usual after the announcement, with a week off due to the snow etc....
Fully agree with this, but wouldn't Parky have realised this himself though? He sounded genuinely baffled by the abject performance, he can't be that unaware surely?
Totally agree!
The team have put in quite a few tired performances of late ,Luton at home for example,and this performance would preferably have ocurred away at brentford in paint pot trophy .Apart from the right back its a team thats taken us to 2nd in the table and and i think we should applaud and be grateful for that ,getting at the players is no way for a charlton fans to behave