I know "best game" and "Duchatelet" dont deserve to be in the same sentence, but have there been any games you actually enjoyed? Heres mine;
13/14
Charlton 1-0 QPR - THAT late Jacko goal
Charlton 3-1 Watford - The game that 100% secured our safety that season, a great brace from Harriott.
Blackpool 0-3 Charlton - With Champ status certain, we played with a lot of freedom against a poor Blackpool team and a memorable Harriott hat-trick. Great turn out and atmosphere with 1,200 Addicks there too.
14/15
Norwich 0-1 Charlton - Norwich were pretty smug in the run-up to this, expecting an easy win and we were under siege for the whole game only for Jacko to score with our only attempt on goal at the end.
Reading 0-1 Charlton - A fairly routine win actually, but at a point when Vetokele was looking like a great signing in a rich vein of form, scoring here again. Oh how things changed!
Charlton 3-0 Brentford - Brentford were chasing the playoffs but were dispatched in style. Great performance from Tony Watt setting up the goal for Igor and it looked like we had a great strike partnership in the making.
Charlton 3-0 Huddersfield - Coming hot on the heels of the Brentford win it was another 3 nil, and easily our best football for a fiver game! Two great goals from Watt, and a warm welcome to Chris Powell on his return as the Terriers manager.
15/16
Charlton 2-1 Hull - We dominated a Hull team who would eventually go on to get promoted. Delirium at the Valley in the sunshine with a winning goal from JBG deep deep into injury time.
Rotherham 1-4 Charlton - An away win that looked like it might spark a revival and possibly safety. Arguably the best game we ever got from Makienok, but ultimately a false dawn.
Charlton 2-0 Middlesborough - The excellent pre-game protests did not distract the Charlton side who defeated a Boro team on the verge of promotion.
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From this season I thought our First-Half performance against Shrewsbury at the Valley was good but 2nd our levels dropped too much to be included, same with the Bristol Rovers game when we won 4-1 (Only in reverse)
http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=43578&season_id=144
But really, that Rotherham game, we pressed well, we countered fantastically well, we looked compact and hard to break down in the second half. Igor looked good while still looking half a yard off the pace. We saw what Big Mak could do with a decent strike partner who can get in behind the defense. JBG had three assists I think, and Lookie came on and finished it off nicely. I really thought that was going to start a run to promotion for us. But Igor was injured the next week and we never found a strike partnership that worked after that.
Jackos last min winner against QPR and Powell punching the air. That was the last time it felt like our Charlton. Even then we knew things were unravelling behind the scenes so that image of Powell seems to me like an act of defiance.
Other moments include the football for a fiver game against Reading. When Yann scored his second against us (didn't celebrate either goal). All 4 sides of the ground rose to applaud him. That was an impromptu moment, an unplanned protest but was a real show of unity and a fuck you to the regime.
Similarly the protest funeral march before the Boro game. And then the 10 mins at the start of the game of continuous 'we want Roland out'.
The stand up for the 2% protest.
That massive post match protest (after the forest game maybe?) The one where the car park felt full of people.
The protests against Burnley.
Gone off the point of the thread but those are my favourite moments since he took over.
The abandoned Doncaster game was certainly one of the most memorable. Chanting off off off, while the Doncaster players tried to spike and clear the water at half time!
What was really galling for Doncaster, was that their 3-1 lead was wiped off, but the sending off and suspension for one of their players wasn't
It's the game I knew we'd stay up, poyet's crunching Parker-esque-Steve brown esque tackle just before the corner jacko scored. The passion of the players and of CP was brilliant.
Also was a game which was to show us what was to come, with Thuram slipping over imaginary banana skins.
Of course having it abandoned worked out well in that we won the replay 2 nil months later!
I'm amazed Churchinho's shot had enough power to fight its way through the mud :-)