Riga's football is so so boring and ineffective. Four deep lying narrow midfielders passing sideways and slowly. A continental style that is not worth paying to watch.
Riga's football is so so boring and ineffective. Four deep lying narrow midfielders passing sideways and slowly. A continental style that is not worth paying to watch.
It only works if we also press high, put pressure on the opposition as soon as we lose the ball and actually pass and move forward and support when in possession. We dont do any of that.
Couldn't believe it when I saw a 36 year old defensive midfielder come on for a striker when we desperately needed some quality to get a goal. What kind of message does this send out to players like PP, Piggot and the rest of the strikers in/from our academy?
A number of the players were out on their feet. We were much more likely to lose than win at that stage so being more defensive won us a good point. My only thought was that the substitution should have been for Green even though he had only been on for short while.
I, too, am unconvinced by Riga's set-ups but you can't get away from the fact that, under him our points tally is mid-table equivalent so something is working, clearly.
I think it's more about the message it sends to that tosser Roly Poly. A 36 year old defensive midfielder who has played about 180 minutes for us all season is more likely to get us a goal than our best striker.
Is this the same tosser whose own money (circa 14m) saved us from nailed on administration and a ten point deduction? The same tosser who is financing the training ground rebuild, the pitch revamp and the players wages?
Sorry I forgot about all that - what an incredible guy, can we knock the Sam Bartram Stand down and replace it with one of him that we can all go and pray to before each match to show our undying love and gratitude.
Give over. He's trying to make money out of us mate. He couldn't give two shits about "saving us".
He's worth £500m. The £14m he has so generously donated out of the goodness of his heart equates to about 3% of that. The equivalent of somebody who owns a £300,000 property (what's that, a 1-bed flat in Lewisham?) investing £9k. And please bear in mind that it's an investment NOT a donation.
What he is doing with us is the equivalent of some minted city-boy with a few spare quid knocking about sticking it in a ropey buy-to-let flat above a shop, spending a few hundred quid at Wickes on a few tubs of Dulux Matt White paint and a budget "kitchen" to stick on the side wall of the living room, and renting it out for 1200 quid a month waiting to watch the cash build up. You don't worship your landlord as a hero who has saved you from homelessness. You pay him sh*tloads of cash each month and whine about how rich b*stards like him are driving the price of houses up.
Pull your head out of the sand.
If we are established in the Premier League in 5 years time (lol) then I will take my hat off, hold my hands up and give Roly Poly credit for his business acumen, but I won't bow down and label him a saviour. The likes of Roger Alwen and Richard Murray threw large amounts of their own significantly smaller fortunes into the Club over a long period of time with the genuine purpose of getting it back to the Valley and keeping it afloat. This guy has bought us with the expectation of making immediate profit from us.
I think it's more about the message it sends to that tosser Roly Poly. A 36 year old defensive midfielder who has played about 180 minutes for us all season is more likely to get us a goal than our best striker.
Is this the same tosser whose own money (circa 14m) saved us from nailed on administration and a ten point deduction? The same tosser who is financing the training ground rebuild, the pitch revamp and the players wages?
Sorry I forgot about all that - what an incredible guy, can we knock the Sam Bartram Stand down and replace it with one of him that we can all go and pray to before each match to show our undying love and gratitude.
Give over. He's trying to make money out of us mate. He couldn't give two shits about "saving us".
He's worth £500m. The £14m he has so generously donated out of the goodness of his heart equates to about 3% of that. The equivalent of somebody who owns a £300,000 property (what's that, a 1-bed flat in Lewisham?) investing £9k. And please bear in mind that it's an investment NOT a donation.
What he is doing with us is the equivalent of some minted city-boy with a few spare quid knocking about sticking it in a ropey buy-to-let flat above a shop, spending a few hundred quid at Wickes on a few tubs of Dulux Matt White paint and a budget "kitchen" to stick on the side wall of the living room, and renting it out for 1200 quid a month waiting to watch the cash build up. You don't worship your landlord as a hero who has saved you from homelessness. You pay him sh*tloads of cash each month and whine about how rich b*stards like him are driving the price of houses up.
Pull your head out of the sand.
If we are established in the Premier League in 5 years time (lol) then I will take my hat off, hold my hands up and give Roly Poly credit for his business acumen, but I won't bow down and label him a saviour. The likes of Roger Alwen and Richard Murray threw large amounts of their own significantly smaller fortunes into the Club over a long period of time with the genuine purpose of getting it back to the Valley and keeping it afloat. This guy has bought us with the expectation of making immediate profit from us.
Fantastic post. Spot on. And don't forget sending the young, smiling female agent he uses to manage the property and collect the rent, and keep people smiling as they are shafted.
I think it's more about the message it sends to that tosser Roly Poly. A 36 year old defensive midfielder who has played about 180 minutes for us all season is more likely to get us a goal than our best striker.
Is this the same tosser whose own money (circa 14m) saved us from nailed on administration and a ten point deduction? The same tosser who is financing the training ground rebuild, the pitch revamp and the players wages?
Sorry I forgot about all that - what an incredible guy, can we knock the Sam Bartram Stand down and replace it with one of him that we can all go and pray to before each match to show our undying love and gratitude.
Give over. He's trying to make money out of us mate. He couldn't give two shits about "saving us".
He's worth £500m. The £14m he has so generously donated out of the goodness of his heart equates to about 3% of that. The equivalent of somebody who owns a £300,000 property (what's that, a 1-bed flat in Lewisham?) investing £9k. And please bear in mind that it's an investment NOT a donation.
What he is doing with us is the equivalent of some minted city-boy with a few spare quid knocking about sticking it in a ropey buy-to-let flat above a shop, spending a few hundred quid at Wickes on a few tubs of Dulux Matt White paint and a budget "kitchen" to stick on the side wall of the living room, and renting it out for 1200 quid a month waiting to watch the cash build up. You don't worship your landlord as a hero who has saved you from homelessness. You pay him sh*tloads of cash each month and whine about how rich b*stards like him are driving the price of houses up.
Pull your head out of the sand.
If we are established in the Premier League in 5 years time (lol) then I will take my hat off, hold my hands up and give Roly Poly credit for his business acumen, but I won't bow down and label him a saviour. The likes of Roger Alwen and Richard Murray threw large amounts of their own significantly smaller fortunes into the Club over a long period of time with the genuine purpose of getting it back to the Valley and keeping it afloat. This guy has bought us with the expectation of making immediate profit from us.
Don't disagree with a word, but would add, unless we are very lucky this is what our ownership will be forever into the future. Once we left the ownership if a fan then we became a commodity to be sold as a money making venture or a rich boys play thing and the views of the real Charlton stakeholders is going to be irrelevant ... To the ownership
Riga's football is so so boring and ineffective. Four deep lying narrow midfielders passing sideways and slowly. A continental style that is not worth paying to watch.
Riga's football is so so boring and ineffective. Four deep lying narrow midfielders passing sideways and slowly. A continental style that is not worth paying to watch.
It only works if we also press high, put pressure on the opposition as soon as we lose the ball and actually pass and move forward and support when in possession. We dont do any of that.
Agree entirely. Our players simply don't have the ball-skills for an intricate passing game.
He might be a japester around the place but I have barely recovered from witnessing Hughes' performances at Bournemouth and Yeovil.
The one shining light in this most trying of seasons has been the reduction in the aggregate age of our two central midfielders from 70 odd at Bournemouth to just over half that, via two of the best teenagers in the country.
As to the substitution, Riga clearly doesn't fancy Petrucci.
0-0 at home with less than ten minutes left against a team with nothing to play for who were there for the taking. I love Hughesy but to bring him on for a forward in those circumstances is ridiculous. Dress it up or try to spin it as much as you like there's no excuse for that from Riga. We need to be bolder and win these home games or we are down.
Absolutely, we'd dropped 3 in midweek. We should have had at least 3 pts from these two games but settled for one.
I thought he got the Green sub wrong as well. If you have to bring him on use him where he might do some damage - we had success down the flanks all afternoon and he doesn't use him there!
And Cousins had his worst game for ages and looked dead on his feet but he kept him on the whole ninety. Riga's suits are nice, not much else about him though sadly.
We looked knackered for the final 20 minutes. Already a point gained on Blackpool and Doncaster so was a good decision.
Personally I always think Pritchard should be on the bench, has plenty of energy and was our top assist maker last season
It's hard to know what's happened to Pritchard. I was never a fan, but he's always worked very hard and when what's needed is some energy to support tiring legs he must be a better bet than Green, surely?
It's funny, despite my grave doubts about Pritchard I thought he really looked the part in the home game against Leicester (I think it was that game) and I figured I'd been wrong. Then at Birmingham he was unbelievably bad. He looked lightweight and completely lacking in awareness and ability. Almost embarrassing. I don't think he's recoverd from that nightmare.
For what it's worth, I think we're seeing reality setting in with Riga. He's having to do the same things Powell did but it's taken a couple of months for him to figure it out. He needs a preseason with his own players - something we saw in our last League One season wasn't it? How did that turn out again?
We've not moved forward under Riga, but we can't which is why we can't judge his management. The players simply aren't good enough and we need wholesale changes (for better players) if we survive this year. If proof were needed, this week should provide that.
A case of a bird in the hand! At this stage of the season, if we haven't scored by the 60/70th minute against the in form team in the division, then it was probably a wise decision. Riga walked into a nightmare situation with so many games and a small squad. Not only is he having to constantly rotate players to keep them fit, he is also getting next to no time on the training pitch with them to impose his methods.
Riga's football is so so boring and ineffective. Four deep lying narrow midfielders passing sideways and slowly. A continental style that is not worth paying to watch.
Riga's football is so so boring and ineffective. Four deep lying narrow midfielders passing sideways and slowly. A continental style that is not worth paying to watch.
It only works if we also press high, put pressure on the opposition as soon as we lose the ball and actually pass and move forward and support when in possession. We dont do any of that.
Agree entirely. Our players simply don't have the ball-skills for an intricate passing game.
Sadly I don't think we have the manager or coaching staff to implement it either.
I think it's more about the message it sends to that tosser Roly Poly. A 36 year old defensive midfielder who has played about 180 minutes for us all season is more likely to get us a goal than our best striker.
Is this the same tosser whose own money (circa 14m) saved us from nailed on administration and a ten point deduction? The same tosser who is financing the training ground rebuild, the pitch revamp and the players wages?
Sorry I forgot about all that - what an incredible guy, can we knock the Sam Bartram Stand down and replace it with one of him that we can all go and pray to before each match to show our undying love and gratitude.
Give over. He's trying to make money out of us mate. He couldn't give two shits about "saving us".
He's worth £500m. The £14m he has so generously donated out of the goodness of his heart equates to about 3% of that. The equivalent of somebody who owns a £300,000 property (what's that, a 1-bed flat in Lewisham?) investing £9k. And please bear in mind that it's an investment NOT a donation.
What he is doing with us is the equivalent of some minted city-boy with a few spare quid knocking about sticking it in a ropey buy-to-let flat above a shop, spending a few hundred quid at Wickes on a few tubs of Dulux Matt White paint and a budget "kitchen" to stick on the side wall of the living room, and renting it out for 1200 quid a month waiting to watch the cash build up. You don't worship your landlord as a hero who has saved you from homelessness. You pay him sh*tloads of cash each month and whine about how rich b*stards like him are driving the price of houses up.
Pull your head out of the sand.
If we are established in the Premier League in 5 years time (lol) then I will take my hat off, hold my hands up and give Roly Poly credit for his business acumen, but I won't bow down and label him a saviour. The likes of Roger Alwen and Richard Murray threw large amounts of their own significantly smaller fortunes into the Club over a long period of time with the genuine purpose of getting it back to the Valley and keeping it afloat. This guy has bought us with the expectation of making immediate profit from us.
And that my friends is the long and short of it. Spot on.
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Give over. He's trying to make money out of us mate. He couldn't give two shits about "saving us".
He's worth £500m. The £14m he has so generously donated out of the goodness of his heart equates to about 3% of that. The equivalent of somebody who owns a £300,000 property (what's that, a 1-bed flat in Lewisham?) investing £9k. And please bear in mind that it's an investment NOT a donation.
What he is doing with us is the equivalent of some minted city-boy with a few spare quid knocking about sticking it in a ropey buy-to-let flat above a shop, spending a few hundred quid at Wickes on a few tubs of Dulux Matt White paint and a budget "kitchen" to stick on the side wall of the living room, and renting it out for 1200 quid a month waiting to watch the cash build up. You don't worship your landlord as a hero who has saved you from homelessness. You pay him sh*tloads of cash each month and whine about how rich b*stards like him are driving the price of houses up.
Pull your head out of the sand.
If we are established in the Premier League in 5 years time (lol) then I will take my hat off, hold my hands up and give Roly Poly credit for his business acumen, but I won't bow down and label him a saviour. The likes of Roger Alwen and Richard Murray threw large amounts of their own significantly smaller fortunes into the Club over a long period of time with the genuine purpose of getting it back to the Valley and keeping it afloat. This guy has bought us with the expectation of making immediate profit from us.
Fantastic post. Spot on. And don't forget sending the young, smiling female agent he uses to manage the property and collect the rent, and keep people smiling as they are shafted.
Don't disagree with a word, but would add, unless we are very lucky this is what our ownership will be forever into the future. Once we left the ownership if a fan then we became a commodity to be sold as a money making venture or a rich boys play thing and the views of the real Charlton stakeholders is going to be irrelevant ... To the ownership
I thought he got the Green sub wrong as well. If you have to bring him on use him where he might do some damage - we had success down the flanks all afternoon and he doesn't use him there!
Personally I always think Pritchard should be on the bench, has plenty of energy and was our top assist maker last season
It's funny, despite my grave doubts about Pritchard I thought he really looked the part in the home game against Leicester (I think it was that game) and I figured I'd been wrong. Then at Birmingham he was unbelievably bad. He looked lightweight and completely lacking in awareness and ability. Almost embarrassing. I don't think he's recoverd from that nightmare.
We've not moved forward under Riga, but we can't which is why we can't judge his management. The players simply aren't good enough and we need wholesale changes (for better players) if we survive this year. If proof were needed, this week should provide that.
It would have been a masterclass subsitution to secure that point!
Another point for our game in hand and it will be smoking down at the bottom