Seems to me from following CL this season a lot of you are very unconvinced by the current Charlton side and (again purely based on what I've read and the odd live stream) we have flattered to deceive on many a occassion.
How, then, does it explain our 11 match unbeaten run and relatively lofty position of sixth in the league? Is it simply due to the fact that BP has got his players extremely well organized or do we have a bit more about us this season and, if so, what is that?
Alternatively is it a fluke that we are unbeaten in the league and a false reflection of our true worth as a side?
Or is BP just a "lucky" manager who seems to have the decisions go his way?
Interested to hear your thoughts.
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Also this is a fairly level division and we're up to the general standard at least, maybe a bit above.
"I really cant cheer for us the way we have been playing this season"
seriously WTF, and you could tell it was not meant as a joke he was being serious
Can't complain where we are in the table compared to last year, but it's disappointing not to win games like today.
Maybe what frustrates people is that we have set our stall out to play the way we do, and what you gain in some areas with our style, you lose in other areas of our play. Looking at Birmingham today there were maybe two of their players who would improve our team Cotterill and Arthur.
However we could be improved if we had the wherewithal, especially with regard to helping out Igor a bit more. Believe it or not, Simon Church would buy us more breathing space in forward play than we had today, but we probably still need that available 9 shirt filled.
The football is not at all rubbish in my opinion, I prefer it to constant long balls and aerial battles that we would probably lose.
I am more than happy with 19 points from 11 games, and hope we can push on this season rather than fade away.
I understand it's frustrating, going 1 up at home to a team like Birmingham after 11 minutes, you'd be hoping we could go on and teach them a lesson, that didn't happen and we gave away a lead again, yet we are still in the play offs, still 2 points off being top and still unbeaten, with one of our strikers scoring 6 goals in the first 11 games!
I get the frustration straight after the game, I really do but people are acting like we're bottom of the league.
I think people need to calm down, take a deep breathe and enjoy the season we've had so far. I can't be the only one forgetting what it feels like to lose, can I?
Taking chances =OK
Creating chances = Bad
Clearly, it is also as much down to our defence and the way the Manager sets the team up.
After 14 games last season, Blackpool had 27 points. They then managed just 19 points from their final 32 matches and avoided relegation by just a couple of points. Let's just hope we are safe before the defence starts going missing and/or Igor runs out of steam.
Not saying that the same should or will happen. But it does, perhaps, serve to explain BP's conservative attitude at times. He is just trying to make the most of what he's got and in doing so also building for the future.
And that involves promoting the kids, getting them involved in the match day squad rather than relying on someone like Churchy who really has very little in his locker that the world and his mother (and opposition defences) haven't seen a thousand times before.
I've seen Brentford and Wolves on a feed and been to the Watford and brighton games as well as today's and really think we've ridden our luck
We're as dull as we were last year but with better players who get better results (that doesn't make any sense whatsoever but some of you may understand what I mean)
Loving the points return and table position but there is not a hope in hell of us finishing top 8 without some new players because to me we look capable of easily having long winless streaks as it stands
Vetokele is a proper gem for us to have .
10 points after 11 games after 2013/2014
Tomorrow's fish and chip paper does not show points for artistic impression. Just hard graft and a bit of tactical nous.
Admittedly a good start can bite you on the arse when getting results and playing not well. A lovely and wonderful example of this is Scumwall at the beginning of December 1995 being top of the tree and relegated six months later.
Hopefully the latter won't happen.
Chill out
Enjoy the ride!
Seems a positive situation than negative
However, keep them coming and sign some quality at Christmas and we could give it a real go.
I think what AFKA & Henry said hits the nail on the head really.
Just need a little more depth and above all another striker and who knows what we could achieve.