We are due a big win - not being disrespectful but maybe this will be the game - ok, maybe I am being disrespectful. I don't want to be as I like Rotherham and hope they stay up. 5-0
It seems the international break was significant in the minds of people at Charlton. Katrien Mier has been on a bit of a holiday so I read (presumably just after the window 'slammed shut'), and Guy Luzon has frequently mentioned it as in Henderson or whoever back after the international break. So tomorrows game is something of a fresh start, not for us after the reset of deadline day signings or loans coming in, but with further setbacks for possibly Igor, Cebellos and Henderson, a late maybe/maybe not recovery for Simon, but the apparent return of Watt. And we approach what appear to be two more winnable games than usual. All the elements are there for us to take our eye off the ball and be complacent, or to return hungry and avaricious for the points. Rotherham have been concluding business too, and getting their players back to full fitness, and have a sharp sense of focus given the start they have had, mitigated by rumours of the manager going to Peterborough. To an outsider this must look like a home win, and personally I think we can do it if we want it enough, and are still prepared to bust a gut as in previous more tricky games this season. However, if we are in any way relaxed or complacent I think we could get a nasty surprise, and that goes for Tuesday too. it is in some ways easy enough to get up for Derby County away, but tomorrow is as much a test of character as anything, and anything less than 100% all round will simply be not good enough, but if we play to that 100% limit I think we can win.
Frustrating afternoon but we get the break thru late on and eventually win 2 - 0.
Bauer and Mak score from set pieces. Rotherham have a player sent off early on which makes for an even more defensive display. Guy and Evans clash on the touch line. Neither can understand what the other is saying anyway.
14,194 attendance. 603 Rotherham
If you've got those attendance numbers right (+/- 20), I'll give a fiver to charity.
Frustrating afternoon but we get the break thru late on and eventually win 2 - 0.
Bauer and Mak score from set pieces. Rotherham have a player sent off early on which makes for an even more defensive display. Guy and Evans clash on the touch line. Neither can understand what the other is saying anyway.
14,194 attendance. 603 Rotherham
If you've got those attendance numbers right (+/- 20), I'll give a fiver to charity.
Here on the fence I'd say with Makienok feeding Watt for the full ninety, we will be good for a two or three goal run out. If we are sans Maki and Watt fails to be fed by the other supply lines then it's 1-1. Which would be a dire result for this fixture which MUST have been a three-pointer for Luzon et al when the fixtures came out in June.
Ooh, listen to you with your "sans", coming on all continental.
The next two games will really pinpoint our start to the season. We need 4/6 points to keep the good feeling going. Feel disappointed we did not get Henry as the pyschological boost would have been great. Instead we continue as before. We should beat Rotherham but we do not do so very often and Lee Camp could player a blinder? 1-0 to the Millers.
Frustrating afternoon but we get the break thru late on and eventually win 2 - 0.
Bauer and Mak score from set pieces. Rotherham have a player sent off early on which makes for an even more defensive display. Guy and Evans clash on the touch line. Neither can understand what the other is saying anyway.
14,194 attendance. 603 Rotherham
If you've got those attendance numbers right (+/- 20), I'll give a fiver to charity.
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0-0
2-2 Watt & Bauer
So I'm going 0-2 to the millers.
So tomorrows game is something of a fresh start, not for us after the reset of deadline day signings or loans coming in, but with further setbacks for possibly Igor, Cebellos and Henderson, a late maybe/maybe not recovery for Simon, but the apparent return of Watt. And we approach what appear to be two more winnable games than usual.
All the elements are there for us to take our eye off the ball and be complacent, or to return hungry and avaricious for the points. Rotherham have been concluding business too, and getting their players back to full fitness, and have a sharp sense of focus given the start they have had, mitigated by rumours of the manager going to Peterborough.
To an outsider this must look like a home win, and personally I think we can do it if we want it enough, and are still prepared to bust a gut as in previous more tricky games this season.
However, if we are in any way relaxed or complacent I think we could get a nasty surprise, and that goes for Tuesday too. it is in some ways easy enough to get up for Derby County away, but tomorrow is as much a test of character as anything, and anything less than 100% all round will simply be not good enough, but if we play to that 100% limit I think we can win.