Awful and very disappointing after last weeks result.
Didn't look like a pen to me but we didn't deserve anything.
Though Mak played well first half but was poorer in the second. Fox shouldn't have been booed but he was awful and should have been subbed a lot earlier.
The centre two though were anonymous (Cousins slightly better than Jacko), they and no point got hold of the game.
Very boring game. We didn't show well. Still don't understand what the penalty was for we saw nothing where we were.
I think we tried 4-4-3 from the start to be more attacking rather than limiting ourselves to counters. It did not work.
Personally was disappointed with the support today. It's never strong where we sit in the west lower, but me and the boy try and follow the covered end. Today, in the first 20 minutes we had nothing from you. We tried to support the team but on our own, we were chanting Covered end covered en give us a song for at least 20 minutes.
Solly moves towards the penalty spot just before the penalty, losing Tomlin completely. This leaves JBG forced to chase back after Tomlin as Tomlin drifts wide.
Awful, there were no redeeming features. Did not really create a chance. Bristol looked as if they wanted it. Sorry to say even the protests were a bit muted. It did not help that it occurred at the same time as the penalty.
Nice to see Waggy. Very soft penalty. We tried hard but rarely looked like scoring. Fox played okay at times and then played poorly. Lack of a playmaker in midfield. Jackson tried hard but was off the pace. I think he is the weak link but there again he is a fine captain. Once Brizzle went in front they gained in confidence. They could easily have scored a few more goals. We are probably better on the counter attack. A win next week will change things, ha! ever hopeful! Oh, their crowd sang well throughout.
Awful, there were no redeeming features. Did not really create a chance. Bristol looked as if they wanted it. Sorry to say even the protests were a bit muted. It did not help that it occurred at the same time as the penalty.
It may have been pre-planned, but terrible timing unfortunately
Just arrived home very unhappy, as I suspect many others will be feeling too. However every cloud has a silver lining, which means the more of us who are upset the happier our resident troll will be. I think you know who I mean, the one who says we should all basically be like them, and does not resist snide remarks because other people are other people. Kerching, got that off my chest, so Mr Troll enjoy this weekend as I'm sure you will.
Today was back to the past, and I fear a stare at the future. This regime might have their deluded ideas about how to make us in their image, but as for Roland not doing failure, well Roland I reckon you're in for a new experience because we are going down.
Chris Solly was amazingly stupid to give away a clear penalty, and an admirable in many ways Bristol City did the rest.
See that's the big thing you're missing Roland, you can create what you like, but there are other teams, clubs, managers, players and supporters in this division to contend with. Your theory might work in an eternity of Charlton Athletic always playing Charlton Athletic, but we exist (for a brief while) in a context, a context you Roland have no interest in acknowledging.
Did we have a corner? Did we have an attempt on goal? If we did I missed them. We had a farcical moment when one down when the referee eschewing a second penalty to Bristol City allowed play to continue, and led to Henderson batting and stretching to get a loose ball away like a cat playing with a fringe on a curtain. Bristol City ought to have scored then, but were so stunned by our utter ineptitude their players didn't make the effort to score what looked like a buy one get one free gift of a goal.
That meant the game continued and we stupidly held on to some hope whereas a second goal might have at least led to some juicy protesting which ought to remain the number one focus if we want to see a real football club attempting real football. As it is we have a situation where we basically continue Fraeye/Luzon/Peeters style trying to make a cake with only salt and pepper!
Of our players, well Jordan Cousins once again gave everything, but anything attempted was undone by Mac, and Bergditch, an unfit now Jacko, and later a disgraceful Reza who seems to exist only to say 'look at me I'm on a football pitch'. Today was the same bad as all season, and they say it's the hope that kills you, well relax guys because it seems all hope is gone.
The melon bought a new car today so possibly too busy test driving it to know the score.
Disjointed and labored performance. And that is being kind. The Dutch came up with Total Football where each player could play in another players position. We just came up with Total Shitball where each player struggles to fulfill their own position to the point where it was deemed better to hoof the ball in the air and hope Total Headball would get us something we probably didn't deserve. Thank you RD for bringing us your wonderful experiment. You can go now.
What a dire afternoon of drudgery and torture. How two 'championship standard' professional football teams can serve up a plate of that tripe is beyond me. I thought I had seen some manically depressive displays this season but that was up there with the best (worst) of them. I include Colchester, Ipswich and Hull in that!
A real shocker quite honestly with not a single CAFC (bar possibly Solly) coming out with any credit at all today.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, we may be under the influence / ownership of some bizarre Walloonian experiment like something penned in a novel by Roald Dahl, but that doesn't excuse the players from not making an effort.
Absolute rubbish performance. Highlight for me was treading in horse shit walking down Floyd Road, after that the afternoon just got worse. I have never ever slated one of our players before but will make an exception today Morgan Fox was total toilet.
Could we not sneak another manager in before the end of the season? One for the record books at least...
I can't see Riga saving us like last time. He had 4 or 5 games in hand and a much better squad.
Rotherham look awful and well in the mire which has sullied the euphoria I felt this time last week and losing at home v relegation rivals like today does not bode well when you look at the rest of our fixtures.
I think unfortunately what will unfold as I pointed out when Riga was reappointed is that it will underline that this strategy, system and network are not conducive to successful football.
Even if we do manage to stay up big deal. 3 season of involvement and we're bottom of the league despite having the richest owner in our history. Of course we don't have a right to success but if Championship survival is the extent of the ambition of this moribund regime then they are going to take this club down the leagues and down the drain.
They are ruining this club and Riga is just another sticking plaster and a masterstroke in appeasement. Nice fella but he's not the man to take us forward. Having said that I think there's few managers out there that could operate successfully under this mob.
An oddball eccentric sitting in another country pulling the strings like a bored disinterested Bond villain toying with a snow globe. An incapable incompetent CEO and operational management team exercising contempt and ineptitude and a former Charlton hero Chairman impotently seeing his legacy flushed away with each platitude and vocal statement of support he patronises the fanbase with.
Utterly tragic.
How do we escalate these protests to get this mob out asap?
Riga made a mistake in not having either Fanni or Sanogo on the bench . No need for both Sarr and Johnson with Igor being injured. And it would have given another option attacking wise.
JJ cannot be in a midfield 2 at this level anymore. We just get over-run.
I was surprised at the initial line up, I think we need to play 4-4-2 with a possibility of moving from that but to start 4-4-2.
I think the players aren't good enough to change ideas and to and I think we were trying for 4-3-3 from the start. Mistake from Riga.
I think Simon needs gingering up for every game. A bit like a racing horse that acts like a donkey. We should employ someone to insert an inch cube of ginger into an apprise place before the start of the game and this may make his effort more reliable.
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Didn't look like a pen to me but we didn't deserve anything.
Though Mak played well first half but was poorer in the second. Fox shouldn't have been booed but he was awful and should have been subbed a lot earlier.
The centre two though were anonymous (Cousins slightly better than Jacko), they and no point got hold of the game.
Sorry to say even the protests were a bit muted. It did not help that it occurred at the same time as the penalty.
Two steps back 06/02/16
Very soft penalty.
We tried hard but rarely looked like scoring.
Fox played okay at times and then played poorly.
Lack of a playmaker in midfield. Jackson tried hard but was off the pace. I think he is the weak link but there again he is a fine captain.
Once Brizzle went in front they gained in confidence. They could easily have scored a few more goals.
We are probably better on the counter attack.
A win next week will change things, ha! ever hopeful!
Oh, their crowd sang well throughout.
Abandon hope all ye that enter here.
We are clueless, hopeless and without a doubt, doomed. Congratulations Roland.
Hope the players are embarrassed(again).
Bottom at last!
Why didn't we set up 4-4-2 with Makienok and reza up front,
Presumably becUse Riga didn't trust reza to deputise for Vetokele.
This was a mistake.
Fox might get the stick but JBG can feck off , stealing a wage . A true talanted player who is going through the motions badly !
Poyet should be in that team
50 mins before we had our first shot
Never looked like scoring
We are where we deserve to be bottom .
They are not.
A real shocker quite honestly with not a single CAFC (bar possibly Solly) coming out with any credit at all today.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, we may be under the influence / ownership of some bizarre Walloonian experiment like something penned in a novel by Roald Dahl, but that doesn't excuse the players from not making an effort.
Absolute garbage.
Rotherham look awful and well in the mire which has sullied the euphoria I felt this time last week and losing at home v relegation rivals like today does not bode well when you look at the rest of our fixtures.
I think unfortunately what will unfold as I pointed out when Riga was reappointed is that it will underline that this strategy, system and network are not conducive to successful football.
Even if we do manage to stay up big deal. 3 season of involvement and we're bottom of the league despite having the richest owner in our history. Of course we don't have a right to success but if Championship survival is the extent of the ambition of this moribund regime then they are going to take this club down the leagues and down the drain.
They are ruining this club and Riga is just another sticking plaster and a masterstroke in appeasement. Nice fella but he's not the man to take us forward. Having said that I think there's few managers out there that could operate successfully under this mob.
An oddball eccentric sitting in another country pulling the strings like a bored disinterested Bond villain toying with a snow globe. An incapable incompetent CEO and operational management team exercising contempt and ineptitude and a former Charlton hero Chairman impotently seeing his legacy flushed away with each platitude and vocal statement of support he patronises the fanbase with.
Utterly tragic.
How do we escalate these protests to get this mob out asap?
Riga drop a ball by having neither of the 2 new signings on the bench, it needed a lift and we had the same old non performers on the bench
JJ cannot be in a midfield 2 at this level anymore. We just get over-run.
Depressing afternoon. Roland out
The amateurs sailing it are making sure of that.
Were down. No question.
Just remember to leave your money in your wallets when the next season ticket renewal form drops on the matt FFS.
Team set up - shit
Players -shit
Supporters - very very shit
Result - totally shit