Note on the JFC ban that'll happen if he picks up one more booking... Just remember he's only got to survive a few more weeks and that'll be automatically increased to 10-games before a ban.
Unless of course thats another rule thats changed over the last few years now?
Karl has targetted a 6ft striker (Godden?) unlikely to be quick and a midfielder, yet he sidelines Aribo and hasn't tried Djiksteel or Lapslie. We need a pacy striker in a 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 but he has no vision.
I thought he talked about signing 2 strikers, one with pace?
By midfielder did he mean a CM or another attacking midfielder?
Wow! Just wow! According to this person, his distribution far outweighs one of the best penalty saves I've ever seen...
And his distribution was pretty spot on!
I just wish he would distribute it a bit quicker! - he seems to hold on to the ball for ages.
He does but the other players don't rush to give him an option. Same at throw ins.
I’ve got to disagree with you here Len. There were 3 or 4 times yesterday where is had the option to get the ball to a player quickly but chose to hold on to the ball.
I do agree re thrown ins.
I saw an interesting thing with Jimmy Bullard about him preferring the thrower to put it in to space (not as in orbit!) rather than directly to the player - he said he felt a team mate would need to react. In other words, a throw to feet, chest or head was a bit too predictable.
Picking my posts but had to back up what you have said as it is spot on. As a team we are far too static - I saw a couple of bad balls on Saturday which were only bad balls because the receivers were waiting for the ball rather than anticipating them. Portsmouth looked in trouble when we played quick incisive balls - yes they can look bad when they don't come off but passing the ball around doing nothing and running out of options when you get to the opposing box because there are 7 to 8 opposing players crammed in there doesn't work.
What worries me most is a couple of things. Firstly, it is ok if we get outsmarted by a tactical genius, but I could outsmart our tactics. And secondly, and linked to this, we were being contained and Robinson took far too long to go to the only plan B open to him which was push Sarr up and play three at the back. We had to get numbers up and needed somebody to win headers and cause confusion.
I wouldn't be hard on Ricky - the defender did a good job on him in the first half, but he started to get past the man in the second. Marshall was a disapointment for me. Yes he put in some reasonable crosses but Portsmouth were good at dealing with those. I wanted to see him drive past the defender and get into the box but he always cut back. We miss Fosu big time - and we do need additions to give us offensive options desperately. Still hopeful we can make the play offs if we sort that out.
When Magennis is isolated, he goes looking for the ball - which is a credit to him but if he goes wide what is the point with the formation we play?
Finally, most teams will play like Portsmouth did at the Valley and it is not a pacy striker we need, but a battering ram striker. Might not work at a higher level but two big strong blokes upfront with quality around them we have would work a treat at this level.
Over the last couple of days I've tried to find the right word to sum up Saturday; I've gone through anti-climax, underwhelming, disappointing, frustrating ... but I've settled on predictable.
Predictable because that is what Charlton are like in celebration matches, whether it's an on-the-pitch club achievement (e.g. Division Two title in 2000, stuffed at home by Ipswich before receiving the trophy), a player milestone, or off-the-pitch events (e.g. PC Palmer tribute game) - whatever the occasion we've got a poxy performance and defeat to match. The only exceptions I can think of are the original Back To The Valley game and the final Division Three match under SCP when Yann put on a masterclass against the Monkey Hangers.
Predictable because that is how we play: 4-2-3-1 with little or no variation to the style.
Predictable because of the three half-forwards only Ricky Holmes seems to be given the ball to attack the defence.
Predictable because when Ricky does get the ball he's got two or three defenders surrounding him and blocking his path.
Predictable because those defenders will spend all game kicking him into next week.
Predictable because the referee won't even consider booking these cloggers until it's too late. If a foul is worth a booking in the last 20 minutes then surely it's worth a booking in the first 20 minutes when it might make defenders think twice about hacking down Ricky for the rest of the game.
Predictable because when anything does get up to Josh it's invariably too high or wide for him and, as he's the lone striker and no other bugger is rushing to support him, he's got two centre-backs climbing all over him (why is it that our centre-forward always get pinged for backing in or holding when tussling with defenders but down the other end it's always our defenders penalised?) so even if he does bring the ball down he's all on his own.
At the beginning of the season we had threats across half-forward with Ricky, Clarke (my PoTY up to his injury), and Fosu: Ricky and the Fosmeister down the flanks and Clarke pulling the strings all over the pitch. However since two-thirds of that line went crook Holmes has been our only outlet and avenue to goal. unfortunately most of the time the avenue turns into a cul-de-sac.
We're too reliant on Holmes, we need other attacking options through midfield to spread the defence without them loading up the No 11.
As others have already said, a plan B (and plan C, D etc) wouldn't go amiss when Plan A isn't working. Saturday's bench was fine if we were leading and wanted to defend that lead late on but it didn't inspire much confidence of retrieving a losing cause.
We need at least one other striker, preferably two, in January to take some of the pressure off Big Mag and to give more variety up front.
Oh, and no more injuries to any player this season please, especially the important ones; we might have a good first XI but we don't bat particularly deep.
Note on the JFC ban that'll happen if he picks up one more booking... Just remember he's only got to survive a few more weeks and that'll be automatically increased to 10-games before a ban.
Unless of course thats another rule thats changed over the last few years now?
Knowing our luck it's changed so that one more booking means a 10-match ban.
The Pompey fans were fantastic, 3,000 filled the Away End and another thousand in the East Stand – all on their feet, chanting and singing. You might think this was their promotion party – yet it was an ordinary league game in December, when their wives had begged them to go shopping in Furniture Land.
After all the froth about the 25th anniversary – it was pompous and ridiculous. Our very good players from those days lined up on the touchline, all stiff in suits, and were beckoned one-by-one to an altar in the centre-circle. Shake hands with Meire and receive a memorial shirt. A shirt? Professional footballers have six houses and ten cars – a shirt is swapped only with bloodied rivals in mutual respect.
At the end of term in junior school, pupils lurch in front of assembly: up to the headmaster and a ripple of applause. To receive a book. Inscribed 'For Achievement'. To Norman. Wrong name. In Latin. Our great players from 25 years ago were led off the turf and lined up in a military parade. It is puerile and patronising. They went up to the stands, breathed in and out: Let's have excitement, bravery, courage - and action.
You can add up the goals: Killer scored 170 for us, Gary Nelson a shed-load too, Mendonca brilliant and vital. They should be entertained here, back at The Valley.
We kicked off. And pussied about all over the pitch. Made a mess in defence, bottled out of midfield. Dribbled up back alleys. Thoughtless and lazy at free-kicks. Never in a million years do we look like scoring.
As fellow Charlton Lifers, what do you imagine Killer is thinking?
No. What they lack in class they make up for in numbers. Can’t stand Pompey fans. They aren’t fantastic. Charlton fans are fantastic.
Wow! Just wow! According to this person, his distribution far outweighs one of the best penalty saves I've ever seen...
And his distribution was pretty spot on!
I just wish he would distribute it a bit quicker! - he seems to hold on to the ball for ages.
He does but the other players don't rush to give him an option. Same at throw ins.
I’ve got to disagree with you here Len. There were 3 or 4 times yesterday where is had the option to get the ball to a player quickly but chose to hold on to the ball.
I do agree re thrown ins.
I saw an interesting thing with Jimmy Bullard about him preferring the thrower to put it in to space (not as in orbit!) rather than directly to the player - he said he felt a team mate would need to react. In other words, a throw to feet, chest or head was a bit too predictable.
Picking my posts but had to back up what you have said as it is spot on. As a team we are far too static - I saw a couple of bad balls on Saturday which were only bad balls because the receivers were waiting for the ball rather than anticipating them. Portsmouth looked in trouble when we played quick incisive balls - yes they can look bad when they don't come off but passing the ball around doing nothing and running out of options when you get to the opposing box because there are 7 to 8 opposing players crammed in there doesn't work.
What worries me most is a couple of things. Firstly, it is ok if we get outsmarted by a tactical genius, but I could outsmart our tactics. And secondly, and linked to this, we were being contained and Robinson took far too long to go to the only plan B open to him which was push Sarr up and play three at the back. We had to get numbers up and needed somebody to win headers and cause confusion.
I wouldn't be hard on Ricky - the defender did a good job on him in the first half, but he started to get past the man in the second. Marshall was a disapointment for me. Yes he put in some reasonable crosses but Portsmouth were good at dealing with those. I wanted to see him drive past the defender and get into the box but he always cut back. We miss Fosu big time - and we do need additions to give us offensive options desperately. Still hopeful we can make the play offs if we sort that out.
When Magennis is isolated, he goes looking for the ball - which is a credit to him but if he goes wide what is the point with the formation we play?
Finally, most teams will play like Portsmouth did at the Valley and it is not a pacy striker we need, but a battering ram striker. Might not work at a higher level but two big strong blokes upfront with quality around them we have would work a treat at this level.
The Pompey fans were fantastic, 3,000 filled the Away End and another thousand in the East Stand – all on their feet, chanting and singing. You might think this was their promotion party – yet it was an ordinary league game in December, when their wives had begged them to go shopping in Furniture Land.
After all the froth about the 25th anniversary – it was pompous and ridiculous. Our very good players from those days lined up on the touchline, all stiff in suits, and were beckoned one-by-one to an altar in the centre-circle. Shake hands with Meire and receive a memorial shirt. A shirt? Professional footballers have six houses and ten cars – a shirt is swapped only with bloodied rivals in mutual respect.
At the end of term in junior school, pupils lurch in front of assembly: up to the headmaster and a ripple of applause. To receive a book. Inscribed 'For Achievement'. To Norman. Wrong name. In Latin. Our great players from 25 years ago were led off the turf and lined up in a military parade. It is puerile and patronising. They went up to the stands, breathed in and out: Let's have excitement, bravery, courage - and action.
You can add up the goals: Killer scored 170 for us, Gary Nelson a shed-load too, Mendonca brilliant and vital. They should be entertained here, back at The Valley.
We kicked off. And pussied about all over the pitch. Made a mess in defence, bottled out of midfield. Dribbled up back alleys. Thoughtless and lazy at free-kicks. Never in a million years do we look like scoring.
As fellow Charlton Lifers, what do you imagine Killer is thinking?
I only popped down to Sainsbury's, How the fuck have I ended up here?
To me what we lacked was movement in the box. Marshall got into some good positions to cross from, but nobody was moving into space, Josh is too static.
JFC has made some decent runs into the box in previous games, maybe with no Kashi, he felt he had to stay back more?
The Pompey fans were fantastic, 3,000 filled the Away End and another thousand in the East Stand – all on their feet, chanting and singing. You might think this was their promotion party – yet it was an ordinary league game in December, when their wives had begged them to go shopping in Furniture Land.
After all the froth about the 25th anniversary – it was pompous and ridiculous. Our very good players from those days lined up on the touchline, all stiff in suits, and were beckoned one-by-one to an altar in the centre-circle. Shake hands with Meire and receive a memorial shirt. A shirt? Professional footballers have six houses and ten cars – a shirt is swapped only with bloodied rivals in mutual respect.
At the end of term in junior school, pupils lurch in front of assembly: up to the headmaster and a ripple of applause. To receive a book. Inscribed 'For Achievement'. To Norman. Wrong name. In Latin. Our great players from 25 years ago were led off the turf and lined up in a military parade. It is puerile and patronising. They went up to the stands, breathed in and out: Let's have excitement, bravery, courage - and action.
You can add up the goals: Killer scored 170 for us, Gary Nelson a shed-load too, Mendonca brilliant and vital. They should be entertained here, back at The Valley.
We kicked off. And pussied about all over the pitch. Made a mess in defence, bottled out of midfield. Dribbled up back alleys. Thoughtless and lazy at free-kicks. Never in a million years do we look like scoring.
As fellow Charlton Lifers, what do you imagine Killer is thinking?
No. What they lack in class they make up for in numbers. Can’t stand Pompey fans. They aren’t fantastic. Charlton fans are fantastic.
Totally agree - well from my experience anyway.
For the first (and last) time I was in hospitality on Saturday in the Centre Circle suite which was a birthday present from my eldest to his brother. Our seats were next to the directors' area and pompey fans in there were giving it large most of the game. I think it's fair to say that they were made fully aware of my displeasure.
Christ that'll upset the Gillingham fans!!... Last time Robinson's post match comments were posted on there, the Gills fans had a right strop saying that a Kent Newspaper shouldn't be covering us when we're not a Kent side
(No it wasn't the Gillingham post-comments either)
Need Fosu and Kashi back asap then hopefully another striker comes in in January. Magennis needs resting. He's limited but was particularly poor Saturday. Aribo intercepted a couple of bits but offered nothing going forwards and just looked to get rid whenever he got it. Couldn't believe they took Marshall off and did a like for like with KAG who certainly can't beat a man like Marshall. Holmes, Da Silva and Marshall were our only 3 players who ever looked like hurting them.
Amos: very good Solly: coped admirably given that Marshall left him high & dry throughout Konsa: sketchy defending throughout rotten distribution and culpable for pompey's goal, Pearce's return essential Sarr: a curate's egg of a performance, by turns good then terrifying DaSilva: peerless Aribo: anonymous, poor passing and never digs in to get it back when he often gives it away Marshall: poor game no end product shouldn't have lasted more than 45 minutes Forster-Caskey: coped reasonably well considering the extra work generated by Aribo Clarke: at the heart of our good early stuff but faded and shoulda been replaced earlier Holmes: tries to do too much Quality is required not so much the quantity RH Magennis: zero service
Ahearne-Grant: sold short by gobby in light of his recent form, then expected to play in 3 different positions in his all too brief cameo - I reckon KR must hate his guts Best: denied by a good save in his even briefer cameo Reeves: n/a indeed
KR yet again stuck for far too long with the system that hadn't worked longer than 20 minutes. We know he hasn't got the first effing whiff of a plan B but is it monumental arrogance or utter fuckwittery that he persists with his busted plan A and players clearly unfit/shagged out/off form/under par until there is too little time in the game to have a chance of making a difference?
A word for the referee - shit. The 'foul' perpetrated for the penalty was only what the pompey chap did in the moments before and Madley didn't blow for that as an infrigement anywhere else on the pitch at all. The 'foul' perpetrated for pompey's decisive free-kick was given the other way by the lino who was 5 yards from the players, not 35 yards as Madley was. The match meddling prick also failed to take any action over pompey's (understandable) shameless time wasting by adding almost no time at the end. All this indignation is of course in vain, cos Charlton created barely 3 chances, fluffed 2 and drew a good save for the third, pompey's goal owed far more to defensive ineptitude (however soft the award of the free kick) with the ball eventually bouncing in off an unsighted player. If KR doesn't swallow his pride or actually start watching these games, whichever is necessary, and an ownership change does take place, I for one won't be sorry if KR's "poor me" prediction of the push from the next regime proves accurate - it'll be one of very few things into which he'll have demonstrated any insight.
Robinson has gone from people saying hes a good manager to a bad one with no vision coz we're in poor form! When its probably the fact that Fosu , Pearce, Bauer and Kashi are missing from that side!
Robinson has gone from people saying hes a good manager to a bad one with no vision coz we're in poor form! When its probably the fact that Fosu , Pearce, Bauer and Kashi are missing from that side!
People are saying he's poor at the moment because MK fans knew that he could only play one formation, he showed that with us last season when he tried to shoe horn players into his favourite (only) formation, and he's showing again now that we have a few injuries and our wonder goals from midfield have dried up.
Robinson has gone from people saying hes a good manager to a bad one with no vision coz we're in poor form! When its probably the fact that Fosu , Pearce, Bauer and Kashi are missing from that side!
Good point. Personally I think it's because his system of 4 2 3 1 does not work at this level and we have been sussed out. The higher up the footballing pyramid you go the more you can experiment with formations. We are in the third tier and our players look like they don't know what their role is. They are playing in league one for a reason.
Personally I think if we played a bog standard 442 we have the players to get us out of this league. But Karl will not do this so it is what it is. Another season of league one football beckons
Robinson has gone from people saying hes a good manager to a bad one with no vision coz we're in poor form! When its probably the fact that Fosu , Pearce, Bauer and Kashi are missing from that side!
Sorry, but I've been saying he's been poor virtually all season. First game I saw (away at Plymouth) I could see that he should have changed it during the 2nd half, but he persisted playing the same way & then again away at Gillingham. In those games I believe Fosu, Bauer,Pearce & Kashi were playing as well as many during the last 2 months.
Please show me a game where we have dominated the opposition, scored first & then gone on to get another 2 or 3 goals...........
Robinson has gone from people saying hes a good manager to a bad one with no vision coz we're in poor form! When its probably the fact that Fosu , Pearce, Bauer and Kashi are missing from that side!
Sorry, but I've been saying he's been poor virtually all season. First game I saw (away at Plymouth) I could see that he should have changed it during the 2nd half, but he persisted playing the same way & then again away at Gillingham. In those games I believe Fosu, Bauer,Pearce & Kashi were playing as well as many during the last 2 months.
Please show me a game where we have dominated the opposition, scored first & then gone on to get another 2 or 3 goals...........
Not good. One idea all game was just to give it to Holmes and see what he could do, which on this occasion was not a lot. I like Magennis but he isn't really good enough. I thought Sarr played a few nice passes, and Da Silva was ok as usual, but the rest were under par (apart from Amos). There's been small glimpses of promising football this year, but not enough.
Robinson has gone from people saying hes a good manager to a bad one with no vision coz we're in poor form! When its probably the fact that Fosu , Pearce, Bauer and Kashi are missing from that side!
Sorry, but I've been saying he's been poor virtually all season. First game I saw (away at Plymouth) I could see that he should have changed it during the 2nd half, but he persisted playing the same way & then again away at Gillingham. In those games I believe Fosu, Bauer,Pearce & Kashi were playing as well as many during the last 2 months.
Please show me a game where we have dominated the opposition, scored first & then gone on to get another 2 or 3 goals...........
3rd game of the season, before Novak had left & we had played Magennis into the ground. Also, if you look at the time of the goals we were only 2-1 up going into 90 mins.........hardly dominating a game.
I can't be bothered now, but if you look at Wigan & Blackburn I'm sure you'll find they have scored 3 or more goals more times than us & beaten more teams by 2 clear goals or more.
Seems to me that football managers get an easy time at press conferences. They very rarely get asked questions that might embarrass them. The likes of Sir Alex and Mourinho led the way in discouraging that sort of thing, and would regularly bully or humiliate any journo who asked awkward questions.
The main problem of course is that it's the same regular faces asking the questions, and they need to maintain a healthy relationship with the manager concerned. But surely someone could ask something along the lines of 'People say you're not flexible enough with your formations and tactics, and it looks like other teams know how to deal with us. Shouldn't you change things about a bit and stop being so predictable?'
Much as I have backed Robinson, I do think he gets an easy ride from the press and media. Mind you, I hardly put him on the spot at his meeting with the Bromley Addicks - although that coincided with us having gone undefeated for about nine matches.
Unbelievable comment from Fromage, as was 'spread out'. I'm damned sure you could have done a better job than him with your gene pool James, in fact I reckon I could have
Because it was an absolute disgrace that Fraeye was allowed anywhere near our football club let alone in charge. Frankly I felt no grilling would be harsh enough for him.
He isn't a bad manager. I love Sir Chris but he was guilty of the same thing. I coach a team, I have watched football of all levels all of my life, and I can say the amount of time something that isn't working starts to work without you changing something is so low you can't put a figure on it. I'm sure you can all say the same. When it does happen, there is usually an incident like a key injury to change things. So why when it would be obvious even to somebody who knows nothing about football do managers not change things much sooner. They tend to wait until they concede and in quite a few case they wait until they concede twice.
I'm not qualified to tell Robinson how to manage tactically and we can all have views on what he should or could do, but it is perfectly valid for me or any of us to tell him, when it isn't working and you can see it isn't working - do something about it as soon as you work that fact out!
He isn't a bad manager. I love Sir Chris but he was guilty of the same thing. I coach a team, I have watched football of all levels all of my life, and I can say the amount of time something that isn't working starts to work without you changing something is so low you can't put a figure on it. I'm sure you can all say the same. When it does happen, there is usually an incident like a key injury to change things. So why when it would be obvious even to somebody who knows nothing about football do managers not change things much sooner. They tend to wait until they concede and in quite a few case they wait until they concede twice.
I'm not qualified to tell Robinson how to manage tactically and we can all have views on what he should or could do, but it is perfectly valid for me or any of us to tell him, when it isn't working and you can see it isn't working - do something about it as soon as you work that fact out!
KR is a pretty average manager - somebody like Warnock, Wilder or Jackett would have got more out of our players. He's performing as expected.
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Unless of course thats another rule thats changed over the last few years now?
By midfielder did he mean a CM or another attacking midfielder?
What worries me most is a couple of things. Firstly, it is ok if we get outsmarted by a tactical genius, but I could outsmart our tactics. And secondly, and linked to this, we were being contained and Robinson took far too long to go to the only plan B open to him which was push Sarr up and play three at the back. We had to get numbers up and needed somebody to win headers and cause confusion.
I wouldn't be hard on Ricky - the defender did a good job on him in the first half, but he started to get past the man in the second. Marshall was a disapointment for me. Yes he put in some reasonable crosses but Portsmouth were good at dealing with those. I wanted to see him drive past the defender and get into the box but he always cut back. We miss Fosu big time - and we do need additions to give us offensive options desperately. Still hopeful we can make the play offs if we sort that out.
When Magennis is isolated, he goes looking for the ball - which is a credit to him but if he goes wide what is the point with the formation we play?
Finally, most teams will play like Portsmouth did at the Valley and it is not a pacy striker we need, but a battering ram striker. Might not work at a higher level but two big strong blokes upfront with quality around them we have would work a treat at this level.
Predictable because that is what Charlton are like in celebration matches, whether it's an on-the-pitch club achievement (e.g. Division Two title in 2000, stuffed at home by Ipswich before receiving the trophy), a player milestone, or off-the-pitch events (e.g. PC Palmer tribute game) - whatever the occasion we've got a poxy performance and defeat to match. The only exceptions I can think of are the original Back To The Valley game and the final Division Three match under SCP when Yann put on a masterclass against the Monkey Hangers.
Predictable because that is how we play: 4-2-3-1 with little or no variation to the style.
Predictable because of the three half-forwards only Ricky Holmes seems to be given the ball to attack the defence.
Predictable because when Ricky does get the ball he's got two or three defenders surrounding him and blocking his path.
Predictable because those defenders will spend all game kicking him into next week.
Predictable because the referee won't even consider booking these cloggers until it's too late. If a foul is worth a booking in the last 20 minutes then surely it's worth a booking in the first 20 minutes when it might make defenders think twice about hacking down Ricky for the rest of the game.
Predictable because when anything does get up to Josh it's invariably too high or wide for him and, as he's the lone striker and no other bugger is rushing to support him, he's got two centre-backs climbing all over him (why is it that our centre-forward always get pinged for backing in or holding when tussling with defenders but down the other end it's always our defenders penalised?) so even if he does bring the ball down he's all on his own.
At the beginning of the season we had threats across half-forward with Ricky, Clarke (my PoTY up to his injury), and Fosu: Ricky and the Fosmeister down the flanks and Clarke pulling the strings all over the pitch. However since two-thirds of that line went crook Holmes has been our only outlet and avenue to goal. unfortunately most of the time the avenue turns into a cul-de-sac.
We're too reliant on Holmes, we need other attacking options through midfield to spread the defence without them loading up the No 11.
As others have already said, a plan B (and plan C, D etc) wouldn't go amiss when Plan A isn't working. Saturday's bench was fine if we were leading and wanted to defend that lead late on but it didn't inspire much confidence of retrieving a losing cause.
We need at least one other striker, preferably two, in January to take some of the pressure off Big Mag and to give more variety up front.
Oh, and no more injuries to any player this season please, especially the important ones; we might have a good first XI but we don't bat particularly deep.
JFC has made some decent runs into the box in previous games, maybe with no Kashi, he felt he had to stay back more?
For the first (and last) time I was in hospitality on Saturday in the Centre Circle suite which was a birthday present from my eldest to his brother. Our seats were next to the directors' area and pompey fans in there were giving it large most of the game. I think it's fair to say that they were made fully aware of my displeasure.
(No it wasn't the Gillingham post-comments either)
Solly: coped admirably given that Marshall left him high & dry throughout
Konsa: sketchy defending throughout rotten distribution and culpable for pompey's goal, Pearce's return essential
Sarr: a curate's egg of a performance, by turns good then terrifying
DaSilva: peerless
Aribo: anonymous, poor passing and never digs in to get it back when he often gives it away
Marshall: poor game no end product shouldn't have lasted more than 45 minutes
Forster-Caskey: coped reasonably well considering the extra work generated by Aribo
Clarke: at the heart of our good early stuff but faded and shoulda been replaced earlier
Holmes: tries to do too much Quality is required not so much the quantity RH
Magennis: zero service
Ahearne-Grant: sold short by gobby in light of his recent form, then expected to play in 3 different positions in his all too brief cameo - I reckon KR must hate his guts
Best: denied by a good save in his even briefer cameo
Reeves: n/a indeed
KR yet again stuck for far too long with the system that hadn't worked longer than 20 minutes. We know he hasn't got the first effing whiff of a plan B but is it monumental arrogance or utter fuckwittery that he persists with his busted plan A and players clearly unfit/shagged out/off form/under par until there is too little time in the game to have a chance of making a difference?
A word for the referee - shit. The 'foul' perpetrated for the penalty was only what the pompey chap did in the moments before and Madley didn't blow for that as an infrigement anywhere else on the pitch at all. The 'foul' perpetrated for pompey's decisive free-kick was given the other way by the lino who was 5 yards from the players, not 35 yards as Madley was. The match meddling prick also failed to take any action over pompey's (understandable) shameless time wasting by adding almost no time at the end. All this indignation is of course in vain, cos Charlton created barely 3 chances, fluffed 2 and drew a good save for the third, pompey's goal owed far more to defensive ineptitude (however soft the award of the free kick) with the ball eventually bouncing in off an unsighted player.
If KR doesn't swallow his pride or actually start watching these games, whichever is necessary, and an ownership change does take place, I for one won't be sorry if KR's "poor me" prediction of the push from the next regime proves accurate - it'll be one of very few things into which he'll have demonstrated any insight.
Personally I think it's because his system of 4 2 3 1 does not work at this level and we have been sussed out.
The higher up the footballing pyramid you go the more you can experiment with formations.
We are in the third tier and our players look like they don't know what their role is.
They are playing in league one for a reason.
Personally I think if we played a bog standard 442 we have the players to get us out of this league.
But Karl will not do this so it is what it is.
Another season of league one football beckons
Please show me a game where we have dominated the opposition, scored first & then gone on to get another 2 or 3 goals...........
I can't be bothered now, but if you look at Wigan & Blackburn I'm sure you'll find they have scored 3 or more goals more times than us & beaten more teams by 2 clear goals or more.
The likes of Sir Alex and Mourinho led the way in discouraging that sort of thing, and would regularly bully or humiliate any journo who asked awkward questions.
The main problem of course is that it's the same regular faces asking the questions, and they need to maintain a healthy relationship with the manager concerned. But surely someone could ask something along the lines of 'People say you're not flexible enough with your formations and tactics, and it looks like other teams know how to deal with us. Shouldn't you change things about a bit and stop being so predictable?'
Much as I have backed Robinson, I do think he gets an easy ride from the press and media.
Mind you, I hardly put him on the spot at his meeting with the Bromley Addicks - although that coincided with us having gone undefeated for about nine matches.
I'm not qualified to tell Robinson how to manage tactically and we can all have views on what he should or could do, but it is perfectly valid for me or any of us to tell him, when it isn't working and you can see it isn't working - do something about it as soon as you work that fact out!