I still can't get my head around Polish Pete , for Celtic , Nantes , west ham and benfica to want him and to play for Poland under 21s there has to be a good player there somewhere . And he has really struggled for us. not even the fact of making it in to the first team he hasn't even done well at under 21 level . I can't work out what has happened.
I still can't get my head around Polish Pete , for Celtic , Nantes , west ham and benfica to want him and to play for Poland under 21s there has to be a good player there somewhere . And he has really struggled for us. not even the fact of making it in to the first team he hasn't even done well at under 21 level . I can't work out what has happened.
Had a very pleasant time at Sparrows Lane this afternoon. It's funny how watching football in those circumstances turns us all into football insiders, where we feel our opinions carry more weight, where we maintain a kind of cool that might mark us out as somebody in the know, or somebody quite au fait with Charlton affairs, or maybe a mystery scout or agent. Certainly we are all brilliant experts on all things football, and fantastic judges of young players as we lurk along the touchline. It is ever thus. So from my perspective as an expert pundit for a day I would say it was a good game, we deserved to win a close contest because Swansea failed to score their rightly given penalty (credit Dillon Phillips who also saved a penalty last Monday), and we did not give up and earned our win by exploiting the Swansea weaknesses. We scored all the goals. Swansea's opener was from a corner at the 'pavilion' end where our guy unluckily thighed it inside the far post as the ball came across and nobody else met it. Swansea had started well, but we were getting right back in it when they scored, but we reacted very well, and a filled out Harry Lennon (captain) headed in smartly and powerfully from a right wing corner to equalise before half time. Second half we played pretty well, as did Swansea, but they failed to score the pen, and were deflated for a while, however during the last ten Swansea were pretty slick, and may have scored with chances they were creating, but we continued to press. The winner was about two minutes from the end. Jack Munns had only half controlled the ball, and it seemed to be going out between the keepers left hand post and the edge of the area, shepherded by two big Swansea defenders. However typical of Jack he hadn't given up on the ball, and squeezed and wriggled his way to it quickly and managed to knock it back across goal where Muldoon finished an easy chance with aplomb. Big credit to Munns for that, and it was the winner obviously. I spent most of the first half talking to a young agent who turned out to be Ronnie Rosenthal's son (brother a first year scholar at Watford, dad now an agent) he is half Israeli and half Belgian and told me he knows RD and his family well. He had brought two guys down from Watford who had been released from there, one was a guy called Kurtis Cumberbatch who is a box to box midfielder who played the second half (and did OK actually) the other was the splendidly named Bobson Bowling a midfielder/right back, but he didn't come on. A lot of interesting talk about player movement and development, Watford's network status, and of course Charlton. He was a young guy, but credible, and we talked a lot, one of my main conclusions is that RD is here for a while, and is not motivated by earning big bucks from us, but is indeed a man intrigued by the potential of his approach to football and his network. We also talked about players, including his brother at Watford, our network loanees and of course Diego. I have arrived home buoyed by the win, heartened by where we might be headed, and of course still chite scared by the prospect of the game tomorrow. As for our players in the match. Lennon has filled out even more and was commanding, Jack Munns was his usual consistently good self, Sho Silva competitive, and all the others good...sadly with the exception of Anil Koc who only played the first half, and switched wings during it. However Loic Nego was good, but very young still, but he is not a disaster at all.
Henry really said all I was going to say really. Koc was so poor. Nego some nice touches but a stupid needless challenge for their penalty. Not ready for the first team though.
Thought Lennon was our stand out player, but encouraging performances from the three new lads, Bobson Bowling (yes really, played right back), Kurtis Cumberbatch (centre mid) and Kevin Krans (forward). I thought on the one showing Cumberbatch showing the most promise.
I understand there is a friendly next Wednesday v Swindon for the U21's, plus an away game v AFC Wimbledon.
Agree with comments regarding Koch - plenty of pace but zero control; Nego OK-ish at RB. Ollie Muldoon and Jack Munns impressed as usual, and Pigott looked to cope well with the conditions (brisk wind, firm pitch, high bounce....) while Sho-Silva struggled. Might try and get along for the friendly on Wednesday - either jubilant or licking wounds after tomorrow!
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Phillips; Nego, Daniel, Osborne, Lennon; Muldoon, Munns, Gerard, Koç; Pigott, Sho-Silva. #cafc
Subs: Bowling, Cumberbatch, Krans, Asamoah
Phillips; Nego, Daniel, Osborne, Lennon; Muldoon, Munns, Gerard, Koç; Pigott, Sho-Silva
Bowling, Cumberbatch, Krans, Asamoah
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/BREAKING-NEWS-Striker-Kevin-Krans-chooses-Bristol/story-18212204-detail/story.html
Nego looked decent even at left back and Krans seemed to have some pace and a few tricks.
Philips made a good couple of saves, inc a pen, but maybe got away with dropping one in the net early on.
Koc. We'll I can say I saw him play but he looked poor.
Jose watched the first half. Fox, Harriot and Cousins all watching as well.
Lady Fannakapan was there too.
It's funny how watching football in those circumstances turns us all into football insiders, where we feel our opinions carry more weight, where we maintain a kind of cool that might mark us out as somebody in the know, or somebody quite au fait with Charlton affairs, or maybe a mystery scout or agent. Certainly we are all brilliant experts on all things football, and fantastic judges of young players as we lurk along the touchline. It is ever thus.
So from my perspective as an expert pundit for a day I would say it was a good game, we deserved to win a close contest because Swansea failed to score their rightly given penalty (credit Dillon Phillips who also saved a penalty last Monday), and we did not give up and earned our win by exploiting the Swansea weaknesses. We scored all the goals.
Swansea's opener was from a corner at the 'pavilion' end where our guy unluckily thighed it inside the far post as the ball came across and nobody else met it. Swansea had started well, but we were getting right back in it when they scored, but we reacted very well, and a filled out Harry Lennon (captain) headed in smartly and powerfully from a right wing corner to equalise before half time.
Second half we played pretty well, as did Swansea, but they failed to score the pen, and were deflated for a while, however during the last ten Swansea were pretty slick, and may have scored with chances they were creating, but we continued to press.
The winner was about two minutes from the end. Jack Munns had only half controlled the ball, and it seemed to be going out between the keepers left hand post and the edge of the area, shepherded by two big Swansea defenders. However typical of Jack he hadn't given up on the ball, and squeezed and wriggled his way to it quickly and managed to knock it back across goal where Muldoon finished an easy chance with aplomb. Big credit to Munns for that, and it was the winner obviously.
I spent most of the first half talking to a young agent who turned out to be Ronnie Rosenthal's son (brother a first year scholar at Watford, dad now an agent) he is half Israeli and half Belgian and told me he knows RD and his family well. He had brought two guys down from Watford who had been released from there, one was a guy called Kurtis Cumberbatch who is a box to box midfielder who played the second half (and did OK actually) the other was the splendidly named Bobson Bowling a midfielder/right back, but he didn't come on.
A lot of interesting talk about player movement and development, Watford's network status, and of course Charlton. He was a young guy, but credible, and we talked a lot, one of my main conclusions is that RD is here for a while, and is not motivated by earning big bucks from us, but is indeed a man intrigued by the potential of his approach to football and his network. We also talked about players, including his brother at Watford, our network loanees and of course Diego.
I have arrived home buoyed by the win, heartened by where we might be headed, and of course still chite scared by the prospect of the game tomorrow.
As for our players in the match. Lennon has filled out even more and was commanding, Jack Munns was his usual consistently good self, Sho Silva competitive, and all the others good...sadly with the exception of Anil Koc who only played the first half, and switched wings during it. However Loic Nego was good, but very young still, but he is not a disaster at all.
Thought Lennon was our stand out player, but encouraging performances from the three new lads, Bobson Bowling (yes really, played right back), Kurtis Cumberbatch (centre mid) and Kevin Krans (forward). I thought on the one showing Cumberbatch showing the most promise.
I understand there is a friendly next Wednesday v Swindon for the U21's, plus an away game v AFC Wimbledon.