i watched the longer highlights from southampton away game, the saints fan that comes on here was right we are playinggood passing football but the final ball sometimes isnt quite there!! and defence is dogey but im liking watching the football being played results will come well next season but still think we will hammer someone soon maybe huddersfield ;-)
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Can we not make the play offs now then?
To be honest I'd rather we got promoted with a good squad thats playing decent football and will give us a good chance of competing in the CCC rather than scraping through the play-offs and then having to completely re-build and start at a higher level with a completely unknown team. Gotta look at the big picture sometimes
Parky was lucky if you ask me, just look back at the Notts County, Sheff Wed games at home when we were totally outplayed but still won.
As CP said, their are very fine lines between winning & losing games and looking at the Rochdale awy match you can see this.
I liked Parky, but did not like his style of football this season and think that was one of the reasons for him going.
Oh we have not had a Parkie bashing debate for a few hours now, lets start a new one!!
no, lets not.
D'accord !
Lots of good footballing teams have struggled to get out of this division.
Last season: Southampton and Huddersfied, and Charlton on a good day, for example.
There are so many things we don't know that it is difficult to call but if you are looking for positives, you can point to the fact that we are undergoing a transition and there are some positive to hang on to if you care to look for them. Powell has to stick to his guns and we need to see the team grow in confidence and show they can boss teams and get results. We can't get promotion but it doesn't mean th eremaing games aren't important for momentum and to show us that our aspirations might just be achievable.
The question was are we playing better football under CP and rather than just look at the results, I looked at performance aswell. Hence the reference to those matches (I could have added more if needed)
As for getting promoted any way we can - come on get real! With this current team we would get murdered next year and everyone would be still moaning, only louder than ever!
We are losing more games because this is a change and the players available to CP are not as good at playing this sort of football.
When we have new players things will probably be much better.
Some Addicks are so passionate about their club that this makes them impatient and they want good results at any cost immediately.
Other fans (equally committed) see this as a tricky transition period but think that playing proper football will be a better investment for the clubs prospects in the longer term and back CP for trying this .
We have lots of threads repeating this argument over and over again from a slightly different angle.
Was asking Off_It if that was a reference to the Bill Murray film, where he wakes up to that song playing on the radio every morning.
What we have failed to do is play "better" football when the other team tries to stop us. Tranmere at home closed us down, Dagenham away they overloaded the midfield and gave us no room.
In the end "better" football is winning football. Man Utd play a much more direct, fast paced football than Arsenal. Arsenal are meant to be a "better" footballing side but United win more trophies.
You can get out of this league playing passing football, you can get out of this league playing long ball over the top to a big, quick forward, you can get out of this league playing a mixture of both but you can only get out of this league (at least at the right end) by playing WINNING football.
As the late, great Jimmy Sirrell said "the best team always wins, the rest is only gossip".
Not having the advantage of a crystal ball and knowing no more or less than anybody else, I guess we'll have to just wait and see.
Ask OohAaaagh .....he might say something like 5% Automatics, 10% playoffs, 85% something to moan about.
We need to play quicker, get it into the front two, get midfielders running beyond, bring the wide players into the build-up quickly and get early balls into the box. " Up, Back and Through" football. Oh, and we need the right players to do it!
This.
Yeeah okay, let's call it 15,000. ;-)
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