Ok - as I am not working as got a chest infection, I thought I would have a look at the other teams to see if our 38 game streak is so unusual.
As stated, this is only when conceding the first goal, so winning from 2-1 down doesn't count
This is only league games though - not sure if Golfie's Charlton figure includes non league games.
Fleetwood 1
Peterborough 1
Shrewsbury 1
Oxford 2
Doncaster 3
Blackpool 4
Lincoln 5
Wigan 5
Accrington 6
Crewe 6
Hull 6
Ipswich 6
Bristol Rovers 7
MK Dons 10
Plymouth 10
Swindon 10
Gillingham 13
Northampton 18
Burton 19
Sunderland 19
AFC Wimbledon 20
Rochdale 21
Portsmouth 22
Charlton 38
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I think the count should include League, FA Cup, and League Cup matches.
This is not to say this crop have no fight back in them though The come backs against Swindon and Rochdale despite the fact we should never have got into those positions and should have gone on to win both, still showed we do have some fight in us.
Too many different sources to include cup games.
we beat Luton 3-1 on 13 April 2019 after going one Down
I don't count cup games just because of the above - FA /League Cup we invariably rest players & play a mix of U23's & players returning from injury or not getting games. This would skew the stats and we might be playing lesser opposition.
A week or 2 ago someone came up with the 38 number & I think it might have included a cup game or 2. At that time I had thought the number was around 36 but went with 38 as someone had actually gone back since Wembley and done the maths.
Fwiw - The exact number doesn't really matter, especially if you look at the above table. The vast majority of teams might go no more than a dozen games or so before breaking their duck - we have taken a season and a half. I appreciate that a lot of that was in the Championship & playing better teams, but I'm sure if you look at Luton & Barnsley you'll find that their numbers are around the average.
I only started bringing this up before xmas as due to not going to games I watch Soccer Saturday more often & see week in & week out teams turning around a 1-0 deficit. I was really pleased when we turned around the Wimbledon match as that was the first time since Boxing Day 2019 (Bristol City at home) where we turned around a losing position into a winning one. We just can't do it from 1-0.
Interesting to see how this awful stat is now gaining recognition
We've managed to turn games into draws, but need to push on for the win if behind and not attempt our awful brand of "managing the game" at any stage which doesn't ever work.
The one truly fucking thing that has done my head in today about all of this is that Millwall managed to do it inside 45 mins this afternoon.
Wolves also did it earlier today
So that's twice in 4 games. We've gone 39 games.
Just read that sentence again & think about it.
I really wish we didn't try our hardest to make the game go ahead yesterday. It's just so typical Charlton, like our local Derby or Sky record, that we flop after such a big build up to 90 minutes.
Second time in 6 matches for them.
39 and counting for us.
Peterborough and Swindon both at 1, after both turned 1-0 deficits into 2-1 wins. Peterborough have won 4 times in their last 10 games after going behind, including against us.
Every entrant gives a date for when they think 'the golfie19' will finish, and the person closest to this date wins. In the event of more than one correct answer then the final result wins. If still undecided, the earliest prediction wins.
I'm going for:
23rd October 2021. 3-1 win.