I've not met a single person who can explain why he continues to get picked. Hopeless again today and brings nothing to the team. Watched him in the warm-up today and he seemed to pass every shot to the keeper.
He is pretty poor . The most frustrating thing is his ability in the air . He's pretty tall but never wins anything in the air unless no ones challenging him. Today he made a couple of headers and got sarcastic cheers . How longs his contracts for does anyone no ?
I don't rate him at all but you can't only blame him today. No creativity in the midfield and Astrit, Reza and Petrucci were all worse. I actually thought Church had a fairly decent first half by stretching the defence. He needs a partner to take advantage of those gaps. He's not a lone forward. Riga should have started with two up front. Negative tactics.
He was fresher than a lot of other players, had motivation against his old team, and always gives 100% effort. I understand why he got picked even if I wouldn't have particularly picked him myself.
I don't rate him at all but you can't only blame him today. No creativity in the midfield and Astrit, Reza and Petrucci were all worse. I actually thought Church had a fairly decent first half by stretching the defence. He needs a partner to take advantage of those gaps. He's not a lone forward. Riga should have started with two up front. Negative tactics.
Mate, he was terrible and should be nowhere near the team.
He is pretty poor . The most frustrating thing is his ability in the air . He's pretty tall but never wins anything in the air unless no ones challenging him. Today he made a couple of headers and got sarcastic cheers . How longs his contracts for does anyone no ?
I don't rate him at all but you can't only blame him today. No creativity in the midfield and Astrit, Reza and Petrucci were all worse. I actually thought Church had a fairly decent first half by stretching the defence. He needs a partner to take advantage of those gaps. He's not a lone forward. Riga should have started with two up front. Negative tactics.
Mate, he was terrible and should be nowhere near the team.
TheRedRobin has got it spot on today about Church and Astrit, Reza & Petrucci.
I don't rate him at all but you can't only blame him today. No creativity in the midfield and Astrit, Reza and Petrucci were all worse. I actually thought Church had a fairly decent first half by stretching the defence. He needs a partner to take advantage of those gaps. He's not a lone forward. Riga should have started with two up front. Negative tactics.
Mate, he was terrible and should be nowhere near the team.
TheRedRobin has got it spot on today about Church and Astrit, Reza & Petrucci.
If Church shot as hard as he 'controls' the ball he would be a veritable goal machine. Yes he runs around a lot but effort is no substitute for achievement. Today he headed the ball twice, but not in a challenge, and the ironic cheers from the east stand told its own story. Can't head, can't shoot, can't dribble, can't pass, can't score. Other than that he is fantastic.
Yes lets all blame church, ok maybe he isnt good enough but tell me now who is good enough maybe 3 players at a push the whole team is shocking to be honest.
I don't rate him at all but you can't only blame him today. No creativity in the midfield and Astrit, Reza and Petrucci were all worse. I actually thought Church had a fairly decent first half by stretching the defence. He needs a partner to take advantage of those gaps. He's not a lone forward. Riga should have started with two up front. Negative tactics.
Mate, he was terrible and should be nowhere near the team.
TheRedRobin has got it spot on today about Church and Astrit, Reza & Petrucci.
With respect, bollocks.
Astrit is a show boater and his positional play today just created problems. Reza did nothing. Petrucci young lad tried but again nothing. Church is the easy target for people and considering he was up front with no support did a job for us.
As for your eloquent responce with no sensible opion about says it all.
I am still fuming about allowing himself to be offside when we looked like having a chance.If I was his manager I'd make the useless cnut train with the youth team and feck him off to Ebbsfleet or some other team that would be at his level.Grrrrr!
I don't rate him at all but you can't only blame him today. No creativity in the midfield and Astrit, Reza and Petrucci were all worse. I actually thought Church had a fairly decent first half by stretching the defence. He needs a partner to take advantage of those gaps. He's not a lone forward. Riga should have started with two up front. Negative tactics.
Mate, he was terrible and should be nowhere near the team.
TheRedRobin has got it spot on today about Church and Astrit, Reza & Petrucci.
With respect, bollocks.
Astrit is a show boater and his positional play today just created problems. Reza did nothing. Petrucci young lad tried but again nothing. Church is the easy target for people and considering he was up front with no support did a job for us.
As for your eloquent responce with no sensible opinion about says it all.
He was fresher than a lot of other players, had motivation against his old team, and always gives 100% effort. I understand why he got picked even if I wouldn't have particularly picked him myself.
Fresher!because he hasn't picked lately cos he's crap Running round like a headless chicken winning nothing does not equal good in my book Simple he was shocking
The thing is I don't even care how much he hassles defenders and chases opportunities because I feel damn sure that even if he does somehow get a hold of the ball, he WILL waste it. Kishishev got a lot of stick from some regarding work rate relative to actual quality but the difference between a hard worker who does a simple job well (Kish) and a headless, pointless chicken (Church) was obvious today.
My son said to me before the match, on the way to the game , I hope we don't play Church up front today, at that point I said look up the odds of him scoring a hat trick (100-1) when Church was running through on goal I thought the odds of him scoring were 100-1 , why oh why did Obika not start/ come on sooner?
Please learn a lesson Mr RIga, we looked today absolutely out on our feet in the 2nd half, I just hope we can get ourselves up for Tuesday night.
I don't rate him at all but you can't only blame him today. No creativity in the midfield and Astrit, Reza and Petrucci were all worse. I actually thought Church had a fairly decent first half by stretching the defence. He needs a partner to take advantage of those gaps. He's not a lone forward. Riga should have started with two up front. Negative tactics.
Mate, he was terrible and should be nowhere near the team.
I agree. He should never start, but he was alright in the first. He was awful in the second. Couldn't understand him starting. Riga must rate him as our best forward because he had three others on the bench and left Pigott out of the squad completely despite starting him on Tuesday. Odd decision that. What I like about Obika and Pigott is that they'll both create chances for themselves. Church will never do that.
I don't care if it I sound like a broken record and I don't care if he asked for more (why shouldn't he?) letting Yann go too easily was a huge error. We always had a chance in every game with him around.
I watched Church closely today and he doesn't actually hassle defenders. He shuffles around them but never puts his boot in to let them know that he is prepared to kick the shite out of them if they hold onto the ball. Contrast that with their front man Pogrebnyak who flattened anyone in a red shirt when he needed to.
Absolute shite player. Thought I would never have too see him in a charlton shirt again. Why on earth did Riga pick him i don't buy all this he rested obika sordell crap has any of them played more then 2 games on the trot.
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As I said on another thread will not renew season ticket if he starts Tuesday.
Can only assume Riga has been instructed to take us down.
He's still a poor player and I wouldn't expect him to start many others.
This. How often have we seen a player raise their game against their former club?
Can't see many Reading fans talk about the one that got away tonight.
As for your eloquent responce with no sensible opion about says it all.
Running round like a headless chicken winning nothing does not equal good in my book
Simple he was shocking
Please learn a lesson Mr RIga, we looked today absolutely out on our feet in the 2nd half, I just hope we can get ourselves up for Tuesday night.
I agree. He should never start, but he was alright in the first. He was awful in the second. Couldn't understand him starting. Riga must rate him as our best forward because he had three others on the bench and left Pigott out of the squad completely despite starting him on Tuesday. Odd decision that. What I like about Obika and Pigott is that they'll both create chances for themselves. Church will never do that.
I don't care if it I sound like a broken record and I don't care if he asked for more (why shouldn't he?) letting Yann go too easily was a huge error. We always had a chance in every game with him around.