To amend Old Shakey: “I come to praise Charlton, not to Bury them.”
After a few minutes, my pal in the Covered End declared that their tall striker would score. Younger Lifers might need reminding that Michael Smith was once one of ours, bought by Chris Powell from Darlington for a hundred grand as an 18-year-old. One for the future and impossible to get first-team action while Kermorgant and Wright-Phillips were on fire. Smith went to Swindon and did very well.
When he rose for a cross at the back post in the first half this afternoon, and DaSilva won the ball – a five-feet-nothing beating a towering beanpole – we knew we were on top. Literally. The team played reasonably well, keen to maintain the high-tempo momentum of our earlier games. Bury got worse and fizzled out.
Essential points to note: shooting practice required. Learn from Bury's goal: a precise and curving shot from 22 yards. Ahearne-Grant, on a one-against-one with the keeper, hoofed miles over the bar. Both Forster-Caskey and Fosu, unbridled in the second half, sent shots almost to the upper tier.
Also, our subs are ineffectual. Konsa for Ahearne-Grant isn't an attacking option. Poor Dodoo makes no impression whatsoever.
Yet, Holmes has set a good example, injecting urgency to our men even in his absence. Splendid Magennis almost won the game in added time with a powerful header low to the keeper's right – a great save.
“We have stopped the rot,” my neighbour was relieved to aver at full-time. Wigan had been a salutary lesson, Gillingham was a debacle. On and up – play-offs achievable.
And it's great to see our lovely neighbours Palace doing so well.
Elfs and co, polite reminder this is a post match thread about the game. No problem with your general conversations, but please start another thread or post in another thread, cheers
None of us like the regime but the constant digs especially towards the team is getting fairly annoying. It must be putting off a lot of fans to come on here.
Seconded. Pissed posting on a Saturday night or not, it's tiresome to have to scroll through pages of "who hates the regime the most?" chest thumping.
The players that take the pitch are still Charlton players. And I think we have a group that seems like they're full of decent human beings. I don't think there's any amongst them who don't want to be here.
What happened to 'Karl Robinson's Barmy Army' of a few games ago? He was all the rage only a while back.
All very strange - thank God we have Billy Clarke and Jay Da Silva, two shining lights in a side which lacked hunger, pace, movement and an end product.
Then it all became clear as I left the East Stand and walked back along Harvey Gardens towards the railway tunnel and I saw several CAFC bit part players, just kids, probably not even got a squad number, driving off in a BMW M3 and a flash Mercedes - the superb CAFC squad of 68-69, the Lennie Lawrence promotion side of the 80's, even Super Clive Mendonca, working shifts at the Nissan factory in Sunderland would turn in their metaphorical graves if they saw this.
Watching Dean Kiely in goal for the Legends game, even at his age now, he showed the class and quality that we've forgotten yet still very much aspire to, along with the faith we had, as supporters, in the most solid, first class keeper the Club has ever seen since Sam Bartram (Sam was even before my time).
This side can go up but we need a stronger, deeper squad to call upon as the first team today were seemingly too comfortable in being first choice on the team sheet - not enough competition, no game changer on the bench.
Not looking bad. Team who destroyed us 10 days ago only 3 points in front
I'm not sure why that's a positive. What you're saying is the top four are all vastly superior to us.
How can we say the top four are vastly superior when we've only played one of them
How do we know that Wigan performance wasnt a match where Wigan massively raised their game against us and wont play like that every week
How do we know that injuries / suspensions wont play their part for our opponents when we play the likes of Peterborough and Shrewsbury - There is such a long way to go from now until the end of the season, there are so many different factors that can ruin any teams season... This time last year Sheffield United were 7th on 14-pts with the likes of Bury / Northampton / Port Vale all ahead of them
Serious question. Do you think pinky and perky have done a good job?
Hell no... I just want people to remember that we're still in September and a LOT can happen between now and May
I've always tried to have a positive attitude towards the eleven on the pitch and wont give up on our promotion attempt until its mathematically impossible
Whilst totally dismissing all since January 2014.
The average apologist view is to look at the present day on the football pitch.
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Did not attend so cannot talk about the game.......yes okay fair do's, I'm off to bed.
We didn't play badly today apart from the first 20 minutes. What's going on with Reeves ffs?. God forbid Josh gets injured. 1 point from 9 is very poor, must do better.
Elfs and co, polite reminder this is a post match thread about the game. No problem with your general conversations, but please start another thread or post in another thread, cheers
None of us like the regime but the constant digs especially towards the team is getting fairly annoying. It must be putting off a lot of fans to come on here.
Seconded. Pissed posting on a Saturday night or not, it's tiresome to have to scroll through pages of "who hates the regime the most?" chest thumping.
The players that take the pitch are still Charlton players. And I think we have a group that seems like they're full of decent human beings. I don't think there's any amongst them who don't want to be here.
It's not "chest thumping" it's just sheer f*cking frustration that these clowns are still ruining our club.
I admire you if you can see beyond the utter shambles that Meire & Duchatalatet have created over the last few years - good for you SD.
I cannot & will not forgive them for what they have done...a few wins at L1 level or not (for which by now I really don't care about).
We started very slow and Bury were the better team until we equalized and then we picked it up a bit. However, only a bit as I thought Bury still looked dangerous on the break. Bury scored a good goal but we gave him so much time and space that we almost handed him the goal on a plate. Beckford has good pedigree so not the player to do it with.
We started the 2nd half slowly but improved as the half went on, although not really with a cutting edge. I thought Konsa made a difference when he came on. I sometimes think we're a bit lightweight and I think he added some size/muscle/intimidation in the middle which we were lacking.
I thought Magennis played well, especially in the second half, and was unlucky not to get more than one goal. He certainly has a head on him. Out of the others I think Fosu was our only spark really in the first half but he did fade a bit in the second. His decision making is poor sometimes but he certainly puts in the effort and at least he has a go. I think Clarke had a good game. Not spectacular though but I think he's a work horse with a bit of style. The others all played ok but can't really say anyone played really well.
Overall I don't think we deserved to win that. I know we had some chances second half but, to me, it didn't feel like we were ever really on top. I do wish we could try some shots from outside the area sometimes (I know, Ricky does) rather than try to walk it in. That and the sideways passing does my head in sometimes.
A disappointing game as we should be winning these types of games but our lack of strength in depth is obvious and will take its toll as we move into Winter. Thanks a lot Roland.
Less than 10k on a Saturday as the club drifts in the third tier under the ownership of this Belgian mug? My post-match view is still boycotting and enjoyed watching my local non-league side move up the table with a 3-2 win. As ever, Roland out.
That's an interesting post. Complaining that we only had less than 10k there and then the next sentence explaining that you've given up with Charlton and watching your local non league team instead. Ironic. I wonder why we had less than 10k there.
Interrupted a piss up to Ifollow 2nd half, lasted about 20 minutes during which I couldn't spot any suspecious activities anywhere near any of the boxes. Fell asleep, woke up injury time with an Accordeon on my lap, saw their keeper jumping for something, then it was over...
I thought it was unbelievably dull , you could see the life has been sucked out of our club , a slow death as we bore the footballing world with our own bland game of shit . Talking of shit , the pre and after match slaloming of trodden on doodoo poo , down Ransom Walk with 4 kids keeping em peeled as we swerved in and out was one of the highlights of a proper dull day . I’m now totally gone in the head and I find myself littering the stand with the wrappers of sweets , cakes and any other crap we have brought from home to try and keep the kids alive from dying of boredom at The Valley. Thanks Roland, although the kids know we don’t drop litter anywhere but at the presidents ground . The half time crossbar challenge is a highlight of a visit to The Valley these days but what followed yesterday was a real twilight moment , very bizarre .
A brief footnote on the game , I never really take much note of the name of the oppo players unless they standout , well yesterday I made a point of looking to see who the tall blonde kid was because he was atrocious, appalling beyond belief , his touch , control , aerial ability were unreal and he appeared to lose everything in the air. I just hope it was an off day for Michael Smith , he reminded me of Polish Petes 5minute cameo !!
FairPlay to the covered end , they did well to stay awake and get behind the team reasonably well . Two of my sons , who aren’t so much in to football as the other two asked if they were gonna throw stuff on the pitch and there was a collective sigh when I said no. Trying to brainwash these 2 that it’s a good thing going to Charlton is getting harder and harder . From our group of 20 friends and family that used to sit together there is only us 5 left , they don’t see their cousins , aunties as much anymore . We all (the kids that were old enough) went through our last 3rd tier years so this is nothing to do with the league we are in , their abscence is due to the bungling Belgian berks who have drained this club of any hope .
The league is pony we are part of it for a reason but there is still a slight hope , Ricky Holmes a rare Charlton player that has the balls , spirit and tenacity to move forward with intent . If we are to depart he will be the major player .
Bang goes my run of wins but I still haven't seen us lose for some time.
Thought the first half hour was pretty dire but improved thereafter.
You can see we have some good, skilful players but something's just not clicking.
It's obvious that teams do their homework and the pressure that Bury put on us in the early part of the game worked for them. Again that's the problem with doing the same weaken week out. Top teams can get away with this as they have better players, lower league teams surely need some options, something that KR doesn't seem to have in his war-chest.
Anyway, it's always good to get to the Valley and meet with old friends before and after the game.
Level of coaching from the outset resembled a training session. JJ / LB / KR on their feet and seemingly bellowing instructions. This was a match not a training session . To win matches players need to be instinctive . Too much instruction inhibits flair and urgency. Perhaps KR can impose some order here.
We were told Clarke was first choice no.10 and so far he's lived up to that billing
Was debating this with my son yesterday. What exactly do they have in mind for Reeves - shoe-horn him in to an unfamiliar position or replace Clarke, one of our more successful recent acquisitions? Clarke has cemented his place imo
Fosu was really good and won about ten free-kicks. He needs to stay in the side for now
Fosu hasn't got a brain!!! He keeps shooting from 30 yards instead of playing a simple ball. He beat the man and instead of crossing, he turned back towards the defender. Very wasteful
He needs coaching. He has bags of talent. He can learn. If he could play the final killer pass, or shoot at the right time he'd still be at Reading.
Fosu was really good and won about ten free-kicks. He needs to stay in the side for now
Fosu hasn't got a brain!!! He keeps shooting from 30 yards instead of playing a simple ball. He beat the man and instead of crossing, he turned back towards the defender. Very wasteful
He needs coaching. He has bags of talent. He can learn. If he could play the final killer pass, or shoot at the right time he'd still be at Reading.
Yeh, kept saying this to my son who was getting increasingly frustrated at Fosu's poor decision making as the game wore on. One assumes he was brought in to be back-up for Marshall
We were told Clarke was first choice no.10 and so far he's lived up to that billing
Was debating this with my son yesterday. What exactly do they have in mind for Reeves - shoe-horn him in to an unfamiliar position or replace Clarke, one of our more successful recent acquisitions? Clarke has cemented his place imo
Was wondering this myself during the match
There is such an eagerness to see Reeves play it surely means Clarke has to be dropped else were putting square pegs into round holes by playing one out wide
Did not watch game today but what is clear to me in a very poor league we are still sitting in 7th postion.This is the way Roland will see it also.WHAT he will not see is we have played the bottom five teams in this league and failed to beat three of them. As a unit of players we lack numbers to cover one another in certain postions and this will be his downfall.With players still not fit to play and two away games coming up this week things are not looking good for Charlton or its fans.
Fosu was really good and won about ten free-kicks. He needs to stay in the side for now
Fosu hasn't got a brain!!! He keeps shooting from 30 yards instead of playing a simple ball. He beat the man and instead of crossing, he turned back towards the defender. Very wasteful
He needs coaching. He has bags of talent. He can learn. If he could play the final killer pass, or shoot at the right time he'd still be at Reading.
Yeh, kept saying this to my son who was getting increasingly frustrated at Fosu's poor decision making as the game wore on. One assumes he was brought in to be back-up for Marshall
probably never gonna happen .. the thought of Fosu, Marshall and Holmes in the same side running at opposition defences (with the ball of course) is very appealing
BTW Novak scored again for Scunthorpe .. the other Irons scorer was Holmes .. ((:>) .. deja vu all over again
We were told Clarke was first choice no.10 and so far he's lived up to that billing
Was debating this with my son yesterday. What exactly do they have in mind for Reeves - shoe-horn him in to an unfamiliar position or replace Clarke, one of our more successful recent acquisitions? Clarke has cemented his place imo
Was wondering this myself during the match
There is such an eagerness to see Reeves play it surely means Clarke has to be dropped else were putting square pegs into round holes by playing one out wide
What cost us today is that it took us half an hour to start playing. We can't afford to do that. Still should have won. If we'd carried on as we started, I'd understand the pillorying a little more
Agreed, but at the same time it was good to see us improving during a game rather than getting worse, which has happened a couple of times.
Thank goodness for the takeover by The University of Greenwich or else there really wouldn't have been anyone there! Crowd officially under 10k (9895) and looked even fewer. Jackpot prize of £202! Will soon be better to win the £100 for second.
We made a poor Bury side look good for half an hour then stopped arsing about for 15 mins and played some reasonable stuff. Second half I thought we'd win it but were pretty ineffectual. Loads of huff and puff but only three good chances.
The timewasting and weak refereeing is really beginning to get me down now. It's no fun to watch and it is simply being allowed to happen. Cards out and it would stop overnight.
I suspect with a firing Ricky in the team we'd have won comfortably but the limitations of our squad have been obvious for a while. Not sure how to mark Fosu in the rankings. Incredibly frustrating decision making and second/third touches yet responsible for almost all our attacking threat. Hope this boy gets the chance to mature into the real deal with us as I really like him but he's got whipping boy written all over him at the moment. I suspect if he hadn't played today we really would have created sod all.
KAG tried hard but he's just not up to it I'm afraid. League 2 player. Josh left to do too much on his own with little service from a deep sitting midfield. All too predictable and I suspect a good team would have taken us apart. Good job there are very few of those in this league. We need a win soon or this is going to turn into a struggle.
The irritating children behind me didn't turn up. Hoorah.
My heart sunk when Bury scored, because from minute 10 they slowed everything down, niggled, time wasted and fouled. Lee Clark; What a tool. Had they continued they way they started they'd probably have won the game.
Fosu was absolutely terrible today. Didn’t have a clue what he was doing. Worst game I’ve seen Billy Clarke play today. Thank god for Big Josh to at least grab us a point. I was in the we’re going to have a good season camp after the first few games, but the squad depth and no plan b now has me thinking that mid table is all we can expect. Robinson will be gone by January
Don't agree with either comment. Fosu will improve his decision making. He has to. Billy Clarke worked harder than any one, and was always good on the ball. Once chase back followed by a slide tackle where he come up with the ball was my champagne moment.
That is almost as poor as our first 30 minutes which was all over the place.
Bury did that pressing us high up the pitch thing that scouts have seen stop us playing and again it worked.
Thankfully we scored and we were on top without creating too many clear cut chances while Bury still had a few sights of goal.
If we'd won it at the end with Magennis' header it wouldn't have been a robbery but we didn't and Bury deserved their point.
I made Fosu MOTM as he tried to make things happen. KAG was subbed off when we were playing our best football and he was using his pace to get at them. Like Konsa as a defender but bringing him on meant moving Clarke and JFC. What does it add or change?
Not a terrible performance and Bury, credit to them, were a horrible team to play against but they are bottom four and a two team should be beating them
Meanwhile 1 point from 9 isn't promotion form.
Lots of talk of missing Marshall and Reeves but neither have played a league game and we lost to Gills with Holmes.
Clarke went off I jured and Pearce took a knock. Worrying given our options off the bench.
Don't want to slate Dodoo too much as he was another player out of position but he looks lost.
Oh, 9895 at home on a Saturday and with an offer to Greenwich University students. Can't be CARD's fault so where is the big change we've been told has happened.
Agreed, very worrying. Regular fans are staying away either as a protest or because they're just losing their connection with the club. Even with a new owner they won't all come back, that's for sure. New fans are key. How are we going to attract new fans? Promotion would help of course. But would it be enough?
My first visit for some time. And probably last for a while.Some observations:
Da Silva started badly but grew into the game.
Bauer has a 50p head.
Fosu was lively but shows his inexperience when choosing when and when not to pass.
Agree about KAG. Not his level.
No evidence to suggest we are getting out of this league anytime soon. Mainly because of the poor quality of squad depth.
The feel around the club is as shit as it's ever been these past few years.
I'm a firm believer that a team reflects the personality of its manager. Wenger and his arrogant Arsenal side being a classic example.
Robinson talks the talk, but is so shit scared of getting the boot he flatters to deceive. He's not willing to take a chance and give it a real go. And that just about sums up the performance I saw today.
I'm not sure how much longer this charade can go on for?
Jeez. A project that potentially could have taken 2-3 years to reach its goal when they took over and started it could quite easily take longer than a 10 year stretch...if at all!
No enthusiasm for me to return I'm afraid and i was once a die hard. There are potentially thousands of customers pitching up weekly at the new Greenwich millennium village over the road. I'm pretty sure if they were there today they won't be seen ever again.
Anyone can see that this squad isn't going to compete over 46 games. It's quite embarrassing our lack of depth at times!
It's only 46 games. Didn't Millwall get promotion last year playing the same blinkin' team every blinkin' match just about? These guys are supposed to be athletes. Matches are only 90 minutes long. Jimmy Seed played three matches a week for 7 months in the Welsh valleys on muddy pitches, just weeks after getting gassed, for the second time, during WW1.
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After a few minutes, my pal in the Covered End declared that their tall striker would score. Younger Lifers might need reminding that Michael Smith was once one of ours, bought by Chris Powell from Darlington for a hundred grand as an 18-year-old. One for the future and impossible to get first-team action while Kermorgant and Wright-Phillips were on fire. Smith went to Swindon and did very well.
When he rose for a cross at the back post in the first half this afternoon, and DaSilva won the ball – a five-feet-nothing beating a towering beanpole – we knew we were on top. Literally. The team played reasonably well, keen to maintain the high-tempo momentum of our earlier games. Bury got worse and fizzled out.
Essential points to note: shooting practice required. Learn from Bury's goal: a precise and curving shot from 22 yards. Ahearne-Grant, on a one-against-one with the keeper, hoofed miles over the bar. Both Forster-Caskey and Fosu, unbridled in the second half, sent shots almost to the upper tier.
Also, our subs are ineffectual. Konsa for Ahearne-Grant isn't an attacking option. Poor Dodoo makes no impression whatsoever.
Yet, Holmes has set a good example, injecting urgency to our men even in his absence. Splendid Magennis almost won the game in added time with a powerful header low to the keeper's right – a great save.
“We have stopped the rot,” my neighbour was relieved to aver at full-time. Wigan had been a salutary lesson, Gillingham was a debacle. On and up – play-offs achievable.
And it's great to see our lovely neighbours Palace doing so well.
The players that take the pitch are still Charlton players. And I think we have a group that seems like they're full of decent human beings. I don't think there's any amongst them who don't want to be here.
He was all the rage only a while back.
All very strange - thank God we have Billy Clarke and Jay Da Silva, two shining lights in a side which lacked hunger, pace, movement and an end product.
Then it all became clear as I left the East Stand and walked back along Harvey Gardens towards the railway tunnel and I saw several CAFC bit part players, just kids, probably not even got a squad number, driving off in a BMW M3 and a flash Mercedes - the superb CAFC squad of 68-69, the Lennie Lawrence promotion side of the 80's, even Super Clive Mendonca, working shifts at the Nissan factory in Sunderland would turn in their metaphorical graves if they saw this.
Watching Dean Kiely in goal for the Legends game, even at his age now, he showed the class and quality that we've forgotten yet still very much aspire to, along with the faith we had, as supporters, in the most solid, first class keeper the Club has ever seen since Sam Bartram (Sam was even before my time).
This side can go up but we need a stronger, deeper squad to call upon as the first team today were seemingly too comfortable in being first choice on the team sheet - not enough competition, no game changer on the bench.
The average apologist view is to look at the present day on the football pitch.
What a clown
I admire you if you can see beyond the utter shambles that Meire & Duchatalatet have created over the last few years - good for you SD.
I cannot & will not forgive them for what they have done...a few wins at L1 level or not (for which by now I really don't care about).
We started very slow and Bury were the better team until we equalized and then we picked it up a bit. However, only a bit as I thought Bury still looked dangerous on the break. Bury scored a good goal but we gave him so much time and space that we almost handed him the goal on a plate. Beckford has good pedigree so not the player to do it with.
We started the 2nd half slowly but improved as the half went on, although not really with a cutting edge. I thought Konsa made a difference when he came on. I sometimes think we're a bit lightweight and I think he added some size/muscle/intimidation in the middle which we were lacking.
I thought Magennis played well, especially in the second half, and was unlucky not to get more than one goal. He certainly has a head on him. Out of the others I think Fosu was our only spark really in the first half but he did fade a bit in the second. His decision making is poor sometimes but he certainly puts in the effort and at least he has a go. I think Clarke had a good game. Not spectacular though but I think he's a work horse with a bit of style. The others all played ok but can't really say anyone played really well.
Overall I don't think we deserved to win that. I know we had some chances second half but, to me, it didn't feel like we were ever really on top. I do wish we could try some shots from outside the area sometimes (I know, Ricky does) rather than try to walk it in. That and the sideways passing does my head in sometimes.
A disappointing game as we should be winning these types of games but our lack of strength in depth is obvious and will take its toll as we move into Winter. Thanks a lot Roland.
Fell asleep, woke up injury time with an Accordeon on my lap, saw their keeper jumping for something, then it was over...
- Holmes, Reeves, Marshall
And yesterday we had:
- Fosu, Clark, KAG
By the end we had:
- Dodoo, Konsa, Fosu
It showed
Talking of shit , the pre and after match slaloming of trodden on
doodoopoo , down Ransom Walk with 4 kids keeping em peeled as we swerved in and out was one of the highlights of a proper dull day .I’m now totally gone in the head and I find myself littering the stand with the wrappers of sweets , cakes and any other crap we have brought from home to try and keep the kids alive from dying of boredom at The Valley.
Thanks Roland, although the kids know we don’t drop litter anywhere but at the presidents ground .
The half time crossbar challenge is a highlight of a visit to The Valley these days but what followed yesterday was a real twilight moment , very bizarre .
A brief footnote on the game , I never really take much note of the name of the oppo players unless they standout , well yesterday I made a point of looking to see who the tall blonde kid was because he was atrocious, appalling beyond belief , his touch , control , aerial ability were unreal and he appeared to lose everything in the air. I just hope it was an off day for Michael Smith , he reminded me of Polish Petes 5minute cameo !!
FairPlay to the covered end , they did well to stay awake and get behind the team reasonably well .
Two of my sons , who aren’t so much in to football as the other two asked if they were gonna throw stuff on the pitch and there was a collective sigh when I said no.
Trying to brainwash these 2 that it’s a good thing going to Charlton is getting harder and harder . From our group of 20 friends and family that used to sit together there is only us 5 left , they don’t see their cousins , aunties as much anymore . We all (the kids that were old enough) went through our last 3rd tier years so this is nothing to do with the league we are in , their abscence is due to the bungling Belgian berks who have drained this club of any hope .
The league is pony we are part of it for a reason but there is still a slight hope , Ricky Holmes a rare Charlton player that has the balls , spirit and tenacity to move forward with intent . If we are to depart he will be the major player .
Oh I’m so depressed with my Charlton Life .
1% Automatic promotion ........ 33% Play offs ........... 56% 7th-12th ....... 10% 13th-20th ...... 0% Relegation
100% Roland Out
(1) 19 shots on goal of which 8 on target but only one goal to show for it; or
(2) 540 minutes of football played ,6 games and 6 defeats ,0 points , 0 goals scored and 13 conceded
There are Sunday teams with better records than Man Utd this season
Thought the first half hour was pretty dire but improved thereafter.
You can see we have some good, skilful players but something's just not clicking.
It's obvious that teams do their homework and the pressure that Bury put on us in the early part of the game worked for them. Again that's the problem with doing the same weaken week out. Top teams can get away with this as they have better players, lower league teams surely need some options, something that KR doesn't seem to have in his war-chest.
Anyway, it's always good to get to the Valley and meet with old friends before and after the game.
What exactly do they have in mind for Reeves - shoe-horn him in to an unfamiliar position or replace Clarke, one of our more successful recent acquisitions?
Clarke has cemented his place imo
If he could play the final killer pass, or shoot at the right time he'd still be at Reading.
One assumes he was brought in to be back-up for Marshall
There is such an eagerness to see Reeves play it surely means Clarke has to be dropped else were putting square pegs into round holes by playing one out wide
As a unit of players we lack numbers to cover one another in certain postions and this will be his downfall.With players still not fit to play and two away games coming up this week things are not looking good for Charlton or its fans.
BTW Novak scored again for Scunthorpe .. the other Irons scorer was Holmes .. ((:>) .. deja vu all over again
Agreed, very worrying. Regular fans are staying away either as a protest or because they're just losing their connection with the club. Even with a new owner they won't all come back, that's for sure. New fans are key. How are we going to attract new fans? Promotion would help of course. But would it be enough? Bit harsh. Too many of our midfielders need to learn to finesse a pass. Smashing it at Josh isn't gonna work. Don't agree. It's only 46 games. Didn't Millwall get promotion last year playing the same blinkin' team every blinkin' match just about?
These guys are supposed to be athletes. Matches are only 90 minutes long. Jimmy Seed played three matches a week for 7 months in the Welsh valleys on muddy pitches, just weeks after getting gassed, for the second time, during WW1.
Let's not create a victim mentality here.