Hope he can do what Bulot did second half of last year! Provide another outlet trouble defenses and score goals!
This in itself will mean teams can't double up on JBG so he will hopefully return to format! Wishful thinking maybe, but could just save our season.
Would be nice to see but I guess if Harriott is on the left, the Right Mid / Back for the opposition will gang up on him whilst Johann will have the same issues the other side
What I've enjoyed about the Fraeye reign was the way the Midfield operated against Sheffield Wednesday... Yes we didnt have any wide players (Was narrow with Ba / Jackson / Diarra and Johann behind the Strikers) but all of them were forever moving about, each occupying whichever position needed filling, it made them difficult to man mark and we benefited from it.
Strangely we've not seen it again and its almost like Fraeye turned round and said, nahhh that obviously didnt work, wont be trying that anymore!!
I thought we stopped playing the diamond midfield after losing to Ipswich.
For my second one [which Dorus de Vries tipped over the bar] he told me after the game ‘I hardly saw it and thought it was going over but just stuck my hand there’. Luckily for him it hit his hand.
“I thought it was going in but it was a bit too straight. At least I am getting into good positions.
Interesting see the views of an opposition Goalkeeper when making a save from one of our players...
To be honest, I've watched it back a few times and Callum is right, it was going a bit too straight but I think I agree with Dorus, it probably was a bit too high and maybe was going over.
If we get more of the Harriott who was outstanding against Forest then we are onto a winner. But if it is the player who was so awful against Barnsley last season ... let's hope not. Of course, this doesn't allow for the possibility our tactically brilliant interim manager will decide he is a right back ...
He's like any other Footballer though, he's going to have bad games so its important not to get on his back when that happens... If he was constantly brilliant just remember, he wouldn't be a Charlton player!!
Harriott is a league 1 player, he was slaughtered here before for a reason.
He comes back here and after 90 minutes he is a hero.
Pleeeeeeeasssseeeee.
So wrong.
He went out on loan to League 1 because his confidence was shot.
The amount of Goals and assists while in League 1 show he is at least a mid-low championship player and still has time to develop.
Saturday showed the potential he has and he should only get better. Trouble is, two or three more performances like this in January and the Wiked Witch will be offloading him to the first bidder (and signing an unfit out-of-contract replacement)
Well done Callum... Made it into the Team of the Week
Someone show that to our scouting team and tell them that's the 11 players we need to sign.
The majority of that 11 are Championship stalwarts and also within our budget
Doubt Adomah or Norwood are, nor is George Friend
Not now maybe, but Boro apparently paid 100k for Friend and £1m for Adomah, well within the sorts of fees we've paid over the last 2 years for the likes of Igor and Sarr.
Interesting to hear the players views of Fraeye. First Jackson was singing his praises, now Harriot. Easy to say "well they would", but there can be no denying that Harriot has always performed very well under him. Perhaps this is why Carol is able to cling to the job, despite results.
George Friend looked like a quality player the last couple of times I've seen Boro play, they got an absolute bargain their if he only cost £100k.
Harrriot is a good player in my opinion, it's not just one game he's been good in, before losing form last season he wasn't totally on it but looked good. Fingers crossed the loan has had a lasting effect and his confidence holds up.
JBG should have a few words I reckon if he hasn't already. Still maybe with some of the form JBG has been showing maybe Harrriot should have some words with him.
George Friend looked like a quality player the last couple of times I've seen Boro play, they got an absolute bargain their if he only cost £100k.
Harrriot is a good player in my opinion, it's not just one game he's been good in, before losing form last season he wasn't totally on it but looked good. Fingers crossed the loan has had a lasting effect and his confidence holds up.
JBG should have a few words I reckon if he hasn't already. Still maybe with some of the form JBG has been showing maybe Harrriot should have some words with him.
Wanted by Powell I believe along with a few other players now doing the biz higher up our division or in the Prem, but was denied the money to sign him. What might have been if Spanish Tony hadn't thrown and wobbly at Kevin Cash.
I'm right in thinking the last time he scored a couple of goals for us, he followed it up with a hat trick a few days later. Here's hoping for Tuesday evening.
Last season, in the 1st match of the season, Charlton were one up at Brentford with 10 minutes to go, Button rushed out of his goal, Igor squared the ball to Calum, and with the unguarded goal, Harriott managed to hit the crossbar.
Yesterday, Button came for the cross and spilled it under pressure, The difference this time and unlike at Fulham recently, Calum kept his composure, had a good first touch and then beat the two players on the line with a powerful finish.
And yet the eternal dilemma is we still can't honestly say which is the more 'typical' Harriott and which was the fluke. For every time he plays a blinder, he has 90 minutes of utter anonymity. Wingers are often blow hot/blow cold but for my money rarely have we had a winger as good as Harriott at his best or as frustrating as him at his worst.
He only has one good game in 10, and that's not good enough really. He has to prove me wrong now, but I suspect he won't kick on, as he hasn't kicked on previously
Harriott is the biggest stereotypical winger. Completely a confidence player that is capable of playing very well every couple of games. At other times he is anonymous.
He only has one good game in 10, and that's not good enough really. He has to prove me wrong now, but I suspect he won't kick on, as he hasn't kicked on previously
He was consistent at Colchester. He is more experienced now.
Keep reading he is often anonymous. I can't think of a winger we've had in recent seasons (probably since Johnny Robinson) who has been less anonymous. People seem to confuse that with ineffective.
It's certainly true that it doesn't come off for him every week but part of the reason he frustrates and loses the ball a lot is because he gets on the ball a lot. Darren Ambrose, Lloyd Sam, Dennis Rommedahl - they were wingers who could do something special, but in between times you could forget they were playing. I've never once seen Callum hide in a game, he's always tried to get involved and make things happen and also work back and help his full back, even in games when it just keeps going wrong for him, even in the games where some of our oh so supportive fans have been most heavily on his back. He's always got on the ball and tried to do things.
He makes himself noticed and often cops more flack because of it, but I don't think he gets nearly the credit he deserves for it either.
He is a confidence player yet no manager has put their faith in him from the beginning of the season. The first year he broke through on the second half of the season and was brilliant, a large part of the reason we finished 9th.. However the beginning of the next season Powell opted for Stewart ahead of him. This year he was sent out on loan.
The only year he's been backed from the beginning of the season was by Bob Peeters who changed his role/position every other day.. He also had been injured in preseason so took time to get into it.
I guess what I'm saying is if a manager showed faith in him from the beginning of the season his confidence would be up and we might get it more consistent out of him.
Thierry Henry started as a winger with Arse until Wenger moved him up front. Could Callum be used the same way. He's as good as anyone else we've currently got.
Even though he divides opinion amongst us it's accepted that he had a good spell with Colchester and proved himself a decent player at that level. Well we're going to be at that level next season so keeping him on is really a no brainer. No point in replacing him unless he decides to leave.
On Saturday he took both his goals brilliantly. However, maybe I was subconsciously looking to be critical, other than the goals the main thing I noticed about him was how he kept getting robbed so easily of the ball which on a few occasions put us into trouble. It will be interesting to see if he is still learning and how he progresses.......or doesn't maybe.
I've been critical of him in the past but by all accounts he was excellent in a terrible Colchester side (who still beat us!) and since coming back has done well. MOM against Forest, Fulham and Brentford i reckon. As with most wingers a confidence player but given a proper run of games where he starts every week he will do well and suprise a few i reckon.
We let Kevin Lisbie go just as we came down from the Premier League and then watched him score about fifteen goals for Colchester in the Championship the next season and wished we had someone like him at that level. I think it would be the same with Callum if we were to lose him in the summer. Mind you, as we're talking about Duchatelet's Charlton and not a normal football club, I have no reason to suppose that we'll bother to try to renew his contract. After all there must be some one a lot cheaper playing for K Rupel Boom FC who could come over and run around a bit for us...
Thierry Henry started as a winger with Arse until Wenger moved him up front. Could Callum be used the same way. He's as good as anyone else we've currently got.
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“I thought it was going in but it was a bit too straight. At least I am getting into good positions.
Interesting see the views of an opposition Goalkeeper when making a save from one of our players...
To be honest, I've watched it back a few times and Callum is right, it was going a bit too straight but I think I agree with Dorus, it probably was a bit too high and maybe was going over.
He went out on loan to League 1 because his confidence was shot.
The amount of Goals and assists while in League 1 show he is at least a mid-low championship player and still has time to develop.
Harrriot is a good player in my opinion, it's not just one game he's been good in, before losing form last season he wasn't totally on it but looked good. Fingers crossed the loan has had a lasting effect and his confidence holds up.
JBG should have a few words I reckon if he hasn't already. Still maybe with some of the form JBG has been showing maybe Harrriot should have some words with him.
The club have the option of extending his deal - http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/article.cfm?id=116405&headline=Revealed: Charlton Athletic have option to extend winger's Valley stay&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2016
Charlton were one up at Brentford with 10 minutes to go,
Button rushed out of his goal, Igor squared the ball to Calum,
and with the unguarded goal, Harriott managed to hit the crossbar.
Yesterday, Button came for the cross and spilled it under pressure,
The difference this time and unlike at Fulham recently, Calum kept his composure, had a good first touch and then beat the two players on the line with a powerful finish.
Long may it last.
(Cue the list of examples in 3, 2, 1...)
It's certainly true that it doesn't come off for him every week but part of the reason he frustrates and loses the ball a lot is because he gets on the ball a lot. Darren Ambrose, Lloyd Sam, Dennis Rommedahl - they were wingers who could do something special, but in between times you could forget they were playing. I've never once seen Callum hide in a game, he's always tried to get involved and make things happen and also work back and help his full back, even in games when it just keeps going wrong for him, even in the games where some of our oh so supportive fans have been most heavily on his back. He's always got on the ball and tried to do things.
He makes himself noticed and often cops more flack because of it, but I don't think he gets nearly the credit he deserves for it either.
I like him.
The only year he's been backed from the beginning of the season was by Bob Peeters who changed his role/position every other day.. He also had been injured in preseason so took time to get into it.
I guess what I'm saying is if a manager showed faith in him from the beginning of the season his confidence would be up and we might get it more consistent out of him.
If you need a 3rd, just think who Roland would sign to replace him!
Be careful what you wish for.
On Saturday he took both his goals brilliantly. However, maybe I was subconsciously looking to be critical, other than the goals the main thing I noticed about him was how he kept getting robbed so easily of the ball which on a few occasions put us into trouble.
It will be interesting to see if he is still learning and how he progresses.......or doesn't maybe.