On the 18th March 2014 James Linington took charge of Charlton's 1-0 home win against Bournemouth On the 18th October 2014 James Linington will take charge of Bournemouth's 1-0 home win against Charlton
On the 18th March 2014 James Linington took charge of Charlton's 1-0 home win against Bournemouth On the 18th October 2014 James Linington will take charge of Bournemouth's 1-0 home win against Charlton
On the 18th March 2014 James Linington took charge of Charlton's 1-0 home win against Bournemouth On the 18th October 2014 James Linington will take charge of Bournemouth's 1-0 home win against Charlton
We have played so many cautious matches that I think this might be one of those crazy ones. We go a goal down, chase the game and end up with a horrible 4-2 defeat to think about. Well you never know....
So much negativity on this feed. Weel stay undefeated with a 3-1 win. Vetokele with 2 and Jackson with the Other. Coming off the international break we are poised and ready to get back into winning form!!!!
I don't think we can say we've been un lucky this season so far, and even enjoyed the run of things from time to time, so we must be prepared to overcome both conceding an unlucky goal, and a sending off! We ought to legislate for having to try to win 2-1 with ten men. That means equalising before Bournemouth score, and a wicked late free kick to get the points. If Big Bob can sort that all out we might be alright.
Bournemouth are upstarts. They play in front of 8,000 retired haulage contractors, heaving themselves between the ruche-curtained bungalow and the stripy wind-break on the beach. Is it time for tea, dearie?
There's no reason whatsoever why we shouldn't play well. Early this season against Derby and Wigan our players proved to themselves, the opposition - and crucially to us - that they are perfectly capable of fast, incisive, attacking moves. It was exhilarating, and we won.
So, why now all the tremulous sideways balls across midfield - then backwards - at The Valley? We have the same players. What has happened to them between August and October?
A Watford-supporting friend of mine wondered about their four managers this season and said: "We are 1-0 up early on, go in at half-time, and lose it completely in the second half." Grotford are above us in the table, note, and Leslie half-jokingly suggested there is some sort of cabalistic agreement among Championship managers: Let's all be as bland and boring as each other, so that nobody loses.
That would be like the masons, and of course it's utterly ridiculous. Loss of confidence by the players is the fault of weak coaching. Our new players have the intelligence and ability to beat any team in this division. Don't you think it's about time we revived our ruthless, aggressive play, and stamped our authority on this bloody game?
Just seen the odds in the Racing Post. Are we really as big as 5-1 to win this ???
As Charles Bukowski, the great American writer and horse-player, used to say: "Look at what everyone else bets on - then do the opposite." Five-to-one for us to win is suicidal for any bookie.
Message to punters - I hope you are all better mathematicians than the poor barrel-chested fellow from Coventry who shuffled around for one game and was carted off to Greenwich hospital with a broken leg.
So, why now all the tremulous sideways balls across midfield - then backwards - at The Valley? We have the same players. What has happened to them between August and October?
Oh, come now Viewfinder, haven't we already been through this? We are no longer a new team with a new manager and unknown tactics and formations. The opposition no longer has to wing it, they know how we play and they set-up to compete. So no time on the ball now for Bikey, TBH and poor Yoni, who finds himself struggling for time and options. But hey, we are still competing and still grinding out results, so not all bad.
We don't need gamblers' luck - we need good, hard-earned skill. There are basic, obvious things: playing only one striker at home is simply asking for trouble - and don't be fooled that Bulot is a striker: he isn't.
He's another anonymous midfielder. There is an aching, vacant gap between our tough defence and anyone up front. Vetokele, Tucudean, Reza, Churchy, Joe Piggott, Danny Haynes, Rob Hulse, Paul Benson, Marvin Sordell, Purple Hayes - they come and go and each is perfectly capable of putting it in the onion-bag. What is missing - and absolutely vital - is a midfield to seize possession and pass the ball accurately to them.
Back in the 1960s, my sister was a pupil at Haberdashers Askes at New Cross: in the hockey games the teacher would join in and rush up and down the pitch, flapping her arms: "Where are my wings?"
Before you think of Joyce Grenfell - Wasn't she bloody right?
Seem to remember a Bulot cross for a Vetokele goal not so long ago! We have two inverted wingers in Gudmundsson and Bulot but we've yet to see them both on the pitch together for 90 minutes. The club have stated three times now that a couple of players will arrive in January if we are still up there so let's see what the current squad can deliver today and over the next 10/11 weeks before reinforcements arrive.
So, why now all the tremulous sideways balls across midfield - then backwards - at The Valley? We have the same players. What has happened to them between August and October?
Oh, come now Viewfinder, haven't we already been through this? We are no longer a new team with a new manager and unknown tactics and formations. The opposition no longer has to wing it, they know how we play and they set-up to compete. So no time on the ball now for Bikey, TBH and poor Yoni, who finds himself struggling for time and options. But hey, we are still competing and still grinding out results, so not all bad.
Our new players have the intelligence and ability to beat any team in this division.
Unfortunately the oppo players often have the intelligence and ability to impose their own game.
btw, 4.56am? - please don't tell me you have been up all night fretting about this :-)
Yes, Six-a-bag-of-nuts, we have all been through this until my teeth rattle. What's good for you - a dreary draw at The Valley - is superb for our opponents and many Charlton Lifers whose horizon is to "finish fifteenth" this season. Even Duchatelet mumbled something in July about his aim being to "stay up".
All of your opinions do make a difference. This is an example: When Duchatelet bought the club, we were bottom of the league and had been summarily dumped out of the Cup by a team in a division below us. Duchatelet would have sacked Powell instantly if it wasn't for all the Charlton Lifers expressing their undying love for our manager. One month later and after good grace, Powell was gone. Riga kept us up - and he too was sacked.
How's that for ambition? Well, fuck my old boots, I doubt very much there is another club in the land - professional or amateur - who pats themselves on the back about their green pitch, and their charity work, and their purse-lipped financial prudence - yet simply can't get forward to score.
Technically Riga wasn't sacked as he was on a short term interim contract. But you have a point about opinions and last season. Duchatelet did the responsible thing by retaining Powell albeit for only two months. Avoiding relegation wasn't simple and change needed to be managed in a turbulent situation.
This season we are doing our best for seven seasons and we have three games coming up against teams who have lost 20/33 games between them. Three draws will look a bit of a fail in that context! We have scored on many occasions and I expect we will score today...in fact we score in all but two games and always first...I think we might score more than the opposition today - let's see!
Technically Riga wasn't sacked as he was on a short term interim contract. But you have a point about opinions and last season. Duchatelet did the responsible thing by retaining Powell albeit for only two months. Avoiding relegation wasn't simple and change needed to be managed in a turbulent situation.
This season we are doing our best for seven seasons and we have three games coming up against teams who have lost 20/33 games between them. Three draws will look a bit of a fail in that context! We have scored on many occasions and I expect we will score today...in fact we score in all but two games and always first...I think we might score more than the opposition today - let's see!
"Let's see", you say, Seriously Red. Bournemouth were there, they saw and they conquered. Our problem is a lack of basic technical skills: we are unable to control the ball, and then to string three accurate passes together. We lack muscle in midfield: we lose all the 50-50 balls, go for them with half a heart - and emerge with a pulled hamstring. Look again at our recent performances at The Valley: our defence clear their lines strongly with a head or a boot to the vital area fifteen yards away - and the ball is seized by the opposition.
It is utterly pointless to play only one man up front. He is isolated: even Vetokele lacks the imagination to run back and hassle the defender with the ball. On Charlton Life there were eight million messages of vitriol towards Diego Poyet because he signed for West Ham, yet I never saw him cross the halfway line. These faults are congenital: our academy players - Callum Harriott and Joe Pigott, for example - are bred to tip-tap sideways to each other, to run the channels and fail laughably in front of goal.
Like the people's hero Bradley Pritchard, they might win at Gillingham or Newport, but are utterly peripheral to any serious team in the Championship. We now have bloody good players with skill, experience and intelligence. Aside from all the cosseting pride about Kahearne-Grant, don't you think Duchatelet should forget about flu-victims like Ajdarevic, trialists like Bulot, and actually buy a damn good midfielder?
So, why now all the tremulous sideways balls across midfield - then backwards - at The Valley? We have the same players. What has happened to them between August and October?
Oh, come now Viewfinder, haven't we already been through this? We are no longer a new team with a new manager and unknown tactics and formations. The opposition no longer has to wing it, they know how we play and they set-up to compete. So no time on the ball now for Bikey, TBH and poor Yoni, who finds himself struggling for time and options. But hey, we are still competing and still grinding out results, so not all bad.
Our new players have the intelligence and ability to beat any team in this division.
Unfortunately the oppo players often have the intelligence and ability to impose their own game.
btw, 4.56am? - please don't tell me you have been up all night fretting about this :-)
Yes, Six-a-bag-of-nuts, we have all been through this until my teeth rattle. What's good for you - a dreary draw at The Valley - is superb for our opponents and many Charlton Lifers whose horizon is to "finish fifteenth" this season. Even Duchatelet mumbled something in July about his aim being to "stay up".
All of your opinions do make a difference. This is an example: When Duchatelet bought the club, we were bottom of the league and had been summarily dumped out of the Cup by a team in a division below us. Duchatelet would have sacked Powell instantly if it wasn't for all the Charlton Lifers expressing their undying love for our manager. One month later and after good grace, Powell was gone. Riga kept us up - and he too was sacked.
How's that for ambition? Well, fuck my old boots, I doubt very much there is another club in the land - professional or amateur - who pats themselves on the back about their green pitch, and their charity work, and their purse-lipped financial prudence - yet simply can't get forward to score.
This all well and good Viewfinder, but as usual you are missing the point - or at least deliberately misrepresenting the point I was making - which was in fact an answer to your lament about what has happened between August and October. Not the first time, so I am assuming you do it deliberately and then just bang on about whatever point you actually want to "answer". I've "liked" your post above for what it is, which isn't a satisfactory answer to mine.
So, why now all the tremulous sideways balls across midfield - then backwards - at The Valley? We have the same players. What has happened to them between August and October?
Oh, come now Viewfinder, haven't we already been through this? We are no longer a new team with a new manager and unknown tactics and formations. The opposition no longer has to wing it, they know how we play and they set-up to compete. So no time on the ball now for Bikey, TBH and poor Yoni, who finds himself struggling for time and options. But hey, we are still competing and still grinding out results, so not all bad.
Our new players have the intelligence and ability to beat any team in this division.
Unfortunately the oppo players often have the intelligence and ability to impose their own game.
btw, 4.56am? - please don't tell me you have been up all night fretting about this :-)
Yes, Six-a-bag-of-nuts, we have all been through this until my teeth rattle. What's good for you - a dreary draw at The Valley - is superb for our opponents and many Charlton Lifers whose horizon is to "finish fifteenth" this season. Even Duchatelet mumbled something in July about his aim being to "stay up".
All of your opinions do make a difference. This is an example: When Duchatelet bought the club, we were bottom of the league and had been summarily dumped out of the Cup by a team in a division below us. Duchatelet would have sacked Powell instantly if it wasn't for all the Charlton Lifers expressing their undying love for our manager. One month later and after good grace, Powell was gone. Riga kept us up - and he too was sacked.
How's that for ambition? Well, fuck my old boots, I doubt very much there is another club in the land - professional or amateur - who pats themselves on the back about their green pitch, and their charity work, and their purse-lipped financial prudence - yet simply can't get forward to score.
This all well and good Viewfinder, but as usual you are missing the point - or at least deliberately misrepresenting the point I was making - which was in fact an answer to your lament about what has happened between August and October. Not the first time, so I am assuming you do it deliberately and then just bang on about whatever point you actually want to "answer". I've "liked" your post above for what it is, which isn't a satisfactory answer to mine.
@Six-a-bag-of-nuts Stick him (Royston Vasey from ITTV fame?) on the ignore list mate, it's working well at the moment for me.
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On the 18th October 2014 James Linington will take charge of Bournemouth's 1-0 home win against Charlton
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The other one was just me making a comparison to a game exactly 7 months ago
My predicted team is:
Henderson
Solly, Tal Ben Haim, Bikey, Wiggins
Wilson, Yoni, Jacko, Cousins, Moussa
Igor
Subs: Pope, Morrison, Fox, Bulot/Harriott, Johan/Harriott, Aherne-Grant.
I don't think we can say we've been un lucky this season so far, and even enjoyed the run of things from time to time, so we must be prepared to overcome both conceding an unlucky goal, and a sending off! We ought to legislate for having to try to win 2-1 with ten men. That means equalising before Bournemouth score, and a wicked late free kick to get the points. If Big Bob can sort that all out we might be alright.
There's no reason whatsoever why we shouldn't play well. Early this season against Derby and Wigan our players proved to themselves, the opposition - and crucially to us - that they are perfectly capable of fast, incisive, attacking moves. It was exhilarating, and we won.
So, why now all the tremulous sideways balls across midfield - then backwards - at The Valley? We have the same players. What has happened to them between August and October?
A Watford-supporting friend of mine wondered about their four managers this season and said: "We are 1-0 up early on, go in at half-time, and lose it completely in the second half." Grotford are above us in the table, note, and Leslie half-jokingly suggested there is some sort of cabalistic agreement among Championship managers: Let's all be as bland and boring as each other, so that nobody loses.
That would be like the masons, and of course it's utterly ridiculous. Loss of confidence by the players is the fault of weak coaching. Our new players have the intelligence and ability to beat any team in this division. Don't you think it's about time we revived our ruthless, aggressive play, and stamped our authority on this bloody game?
Would like to see:
Henderson
Solly
Wiggins
Ben Haim
Bikey
JBG
Buyens
Cousins
Jacko
Moussa
Igor
Same team as Rotherham but repeat the first half performance in the second half this time please.
Message to punters - I hope you are all better mathematicians than the poor barrel-chested fellow from Coventry who shuffled around for one game and was carted off to Greenwich hospital with a broken leg.
Alan Dugdale - Where are my winnings?
We are no longer a new team with a new manager and unknown tactics and formations. The opposition no longer has to wing it, they know how we play and they set-up to compete. So no time on the ball now for Bikey, TBH and poor Yoni, who finds himself struggling for time and options.
But hey, we are still competing and still grinding out results, so not all bad. Unfortunately the oppo players often have the intelligence and ability to impose their own game.
btw, 4.56am? - please don't tell me you have been up all night fretting about this :-)
He's another anonymous midfielder. There is an aching, vacant gap between our tough defence and anyone up front. Vetokele, Tucudean, Reza, Churchy, Joe Piggott, Danny Haynes, Rob Hulse, Paul Benson, Marvin Sordell, Purple Hayes - they come and go and each is perfectly capable of putting it in the onion-bag. What is missing - and absolutely vital - is a midfield to seize possession and pass the ball accurately to them.
Back in the 1960s, my sister was a pupil at Haberdashers Askes at New Cross: in the hockey games the teacher would join in and rush up and down the pitch, flapping her arms: "Where are my wings?"
Before you think of Joyce Grenfell - Wasn't she bloody right?
The club have stated three times now that a couple of players will arrive in January if we are still up there so let's see what the current squad can deliver today and over the next 10/11 weeks before reinforcements arrive.
All of your opinions do make a difference. This is an example: When Duchatelet bought the club, we were bottom of the league and had been summarily dumped out of the Cup by a team in a division below us. Duchatelet would have sacked Powell instantly if it wasn't for all the Charlton Lifers expressing their undying love for our manager. One month later and after good grace, Powell was gone. Riga kept us up - and he too was sacked.
How's that for ambition? Well, fuck my old boots, I doubt very much there is another club in the land - professional or amateur - who pats themselves on the back about their green pitch, and their charity work, and their purse-lipped financial prudence - yet simply can't get forward to score.
This season we are doing our best for seven seasons and we have three games coming up against teams who have lost 20/33 games between them. Three draws will look a bit of a fail in that context!
We have scored on many occasions and I expect we will score today...in fact we score in all but two games and always first...I think we might score more than the opposition today - let's see!
It is utterly pointless to play only one man up front. He is isolated: even Vetokele lacks the imagination to run back and hassle the defender with the ball. On Charlton Life there were eight million messages of vitriol towards Diego Poyet because he signed for West Ham, yet I never saw him cross the halfway line. These faults are congenital: our academy players - Callum Harriott and Joe Pigott, for example - are bred to tip-tap sideways to each other, to run the channels and fail laughably in front of goal.
Like the people's hero Bradley Pritchard, they might win at Gillingham or Newport, but are utterly peripheral to any serious team in the Championship. We now have bloody good players with skill, experience and intelligence. Aside from all the cosseting pride about Kahearne-Grant, don't you think Duchatelet should forget about flu-victims like Ajdarevic, trialists like Bulot, and actually buy a damn good midfielder?
Not the first time, so I am assuming you do it deliberately and then just bang on about whatever point you actually want to "answer".
I've "liked" your post above for what it is, which isn't a satisfactory answer to mine.