I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
There’s no doubt a balance. NJ has to prove Hylton’s influence to justify extending his contract. We know having good senior pros in a squad is beneficial, especially when you have a lot of young players, including those senior pros who don’t play much. Powell had it with Euell, Cort (often on the bench in our title winning season), Hughes etc.
Hylton’s someone who’s made the most of his ability and I can believe he’d help young strikers learn how to use their body more effectively, adjust their touch for the better, deal with physical CBs and have belief in their own ability. The biggest criticism of Miles is usually his hold up play, these last few games it’s been more consistent. We’ll see if it continues, but he has the physicality, technical ability and intelligence to do it.
Regarding the whole Hylton situation - I know the SCP bringing in Euell Cort Hughes example keeps being brought up but I don't remember at the time himself or the SMT (or anyone at all really) highlighting the need to "trim the squad" when it comes near the time of the transfer windows. Maybe i'm just misremembering but that is my one big bugbear about the whole situation at the moment - would SCP have kept any or all of Cort/ Euell/Hughes or extended their contracts and gotten rid of other more active squad players to keep them around if faced with that? Is our squad now any bigger than it was then? It's maybe a better question for another thread but there seems to be a reticence to adding anyone in this window that just wasn't there in 2011 and I can't help having this sinking feeling that we are being primed as a fanbase to lose one or two or more big players under this "squad trimming" narrative, and I don't see how you could justify losing ANY decent player we have (Kanu? Taylor? Jones/Leaburn) and yet at the same time trying to justify extending Potts, Hylton and not returning A Campbell when they have given nothing substantial on the pitch other than poor performances.
Kanu and Leaburn aren't part of our squad per se, because they are too young to be counted. The others are non-playing breeze blocks around our neck and have to go. Ahadme (loan?) and Godden who dont fit current style should be offloaded with Eden, Gilly, Watson if fit, Taylor although I like him, and Berry.
Bring in Aasgard and if not Al Hadami, then Tete Yengi plus a pacy winger.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
There’s no doubt a balance. NJ has to prove Hylton’s influence to justify extending his contract. We know having good senior pros in a squad is beneficial, especially when you have a lot of young players, including those senior pros who don’t play much. Powell had it with Euell, Cort (often on the bench in our title winning season), Hughes etc.
Hylton’s someone who’s made the most of his ability and I can believe he’d help young strikers learn how to use their body more effectively, adjust their touch for the better, deal with physical CBs and have belief in their own ability. The biggest criticism of Miles is usually his hold up play, these last few games it’s been more consistent. We’ll see if it continues, but he has the physicality, technical ability and intelligence to do it.
Regarding the whole Hylton situation - I know the SCP bringing in Euell Cort Hughes example keeps being brought up but I don't remember at the time himself or the SMT (or anyone at all really) highlighting the need to "trim the squad" when it comes near the time of the transfer windows. Maybe i'm just misremembering but that is my one big bugbear about the whole situation at the moment - would SCP have kept any or all of Cort/ Euell/Hughes or extended their contracts and gotten rid of other more active squad players to keep them around if faced with that? Is our squad now any bigger than it was then? It's maybe a better question for another thread but there seems to be a reticence to adding anyone in this window that just wasn't there in 2011 and I can't help having this sinking feeling that we are being primed as a fanbase to lose one or two or more big players under this "squad trimming" narrative, and I don't see how you could justify losing ANY decent player we have (Kanu? Taylor? Jones/Leaburn) and yet at the same time trying to justify extending Potts, Hylton and not returning A Campbell when they have given nothing substantial on the pitch other than poor performances.
Kanu and Leaburn aren't part of our squad per se, because they are too young to be counted. The others are non-playing breeze blocks around our neck and have to go. Ahadme (loan?) and Godden who dont fit current style should be offloaded with Eden, Gilly, Watson if fit, Taylor although I like him, and Berry.
Bring in Aasgard and if not Al Hadami, then Tete Yengi plus a pacy winger.
Al Hamadi 😂😂
Been getting minutes coming off the bench in most recent PL games for Ipswich, i'm sure he'd definitely fancy a move to league one.......
Miles Leaburn has been nominated for Sky Bet League One's December Player of the Month award.
The striker is up against Exeter City's Millenic Alli, Leyton Orient's Omar Beckles and Birmingham City's Jay Stansfield for the accolade, with the winner announced on Friday, January 10th.
The judging panel comprises Sky Sports’ EFL expert Don Goodman, EFL Chief Executive Trevor Birch and Sky Bet EFL trader Ivor Davies.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
Unnecessary rant. Hylton might not be the player we want/need, but there's no doubt he has experience and knowledge to pass directly on to our young forwards.
I am not saying Hylton doesn't have his uses, but where were they for the first 4 months of the season? Miles is playing much better as we are not lumping it forward, getting it wide and he's fitter and more confident.
Otherwise, what amazing influence was he having on GAS, Kanu etc until 6 games ago? Couldn't see any and ok, he's not a rent-a-thug, but he's a pantomime villain and sadly I think we can, and should, do better
The change in style is definitely a huge part of it but I think it's also fair to say that improvements from coaching take time. If this level of form and quality keeps up from the likes of Leaburn and TC (and Ahadme apparently I guess) then I think we'd say seeing long-term benefits from coaching within four months is pretty good. These are very young and inexperienced players, I think we have to be realistic about the timeframes for improvement that will come from any amount of coaching beyond the very basics.
Miles Leaburn has been nominated for Sky Bet League One's December Player of the Month award.
The striker is up against Exeter City's Millenic Alli, Leyton Orient's Omar Beckles and Birmingham City's Jay Stansfield for the accolade, with the winner announced on Friday, January 10th.
The judging panel comprises Sky Sports’ EFL expert Don Goodman, EFL Chief Executive Trevor Birch and Sky Bet EFL trader Ivor Davies.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
Unnecessary rant. Hylton might not be the player we want/need, but there's no doubt he has experience and knowledge to pass directly on to our young forwards.
I am not saying Hylton doesn't have his uses, but where were they for the first 4 months of the season? Miles is playing much better as we are not lumping it forward, getting it wide and he's fitter and more confident.
Otherwise, what amazing influence was he having on GAS, Kanu etc until 6 games ago? Couldn't see any and ok, he's not a rent-a-thug, but he's a pantomime villain and sadly I think we can, and should, do better
The change in style is definitely a huge part of it but I think it's also fair to say that improvements from coaching take time. If this level of form and quality keeps up from the likes of Leaburn and TC (and Ahadme apparently I guess) then I think we'd say seeing long-term benefits from coaching within four months is pretty good. These are very young and inexperienced players, I think we have to be realistic about the timeframes for improvement that will come from any amount of coaching beyond the very basics.
I think Leaburn is just about approaching how well he was playing before his injury, IMHO Ahadme has "improved" that much he can't get on the pitch Kanu has "improved" that much he can't get in the matchday squad
Sorry bud, the Hylton thing.... I'm not up for. It's jobs for his mates and there are I think better options for another striker in the squad on a pay as you play basis and a forwards coach. We are scoring less than last year. Always wanting to be proven wrong. Hylton was piss poor at Northampton and it made no sense bringing him in to our squad whether as a player/coach or not.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
Unnecessary rant. Hylton might not be the player we want/need, but there's no doubt he has experience and knowledge to pass directly on to our young forwards.
I am not saying Hylton doesn't have his uses, but where were they for the first 4 months of the season? Miles is playing much better as we are not lumping it forward, getting it wide and he's fitter and more confident.
Otherwise, what amazing influence was he having on GAS, Kanu etc until 6 games ago? Couldn't see any and ok, he's not a rent-a-thug, but he's a pantomime villain and sadly I think we can, and should, do better
The change in style is definitely a huge part of it but I think it's also fair to say that improvements from coaching take time. If this level of form and quality keeps up from the likes of Leaburn and TC (and Ahadme apparently I guess) then I think we'd say seeing long-term benefits from coaching within four months is pretty good. These are very young and inexperienced players, I think we have to be realistic about the timeframes for improvement that will come from any amount of coaching beyond the very basics.
I think Leaburn is just about approaching how well he was playing before his injury, IMHO Ahadme has "improved" that much he can't get on the pitch Kanu has "improved" that much he can't get in the matchday squad
Sorry bud, the Hylton thing.... I'm not up for. It's jobs for his mates and there are I think better options for another striker in the squad on a pay as you play basis and a forwards coach. We are scoring less than last year. Always wanting to be proven wrong. Hylton was piss poor at Northampton and it made no sense bringing him in to our squad whether as a player/coach or not.
I don't know what's going on with Kanu since his injury but you've left out TC who has massively improved recently in terms of his approach off the ball. As I said, the improvements in Ahadme are at this point impossible to assess and probably fictional but Leaburn is definitely doing better at the aspect of his game that he's struggled with at times, which is his hold up play. Maybe that's attributed to Hylton maybe it isn't, we don't know. In the end we aren't going to agree as we don't see what goes on in training. Jones says the hold up play has improved because of the coach he brought in to help these players with their hold up play, I'm willing to accept that as it's not a huge stretch. You have a perception of Hylton yourself, quite a spiteful one but that's your right, and you're determined that he's contributing nothing to our strikers. In the end we don't know so there's not much point in worrying about it, either way we just have to hope the improvements and the form continue and it doesn't massively matter where it comes from as long as the wins keep coming in.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
Unnecessary rant. Hylton might not be the player we want/need, but there's no doubt he has experience and knowledge to pass directly on to our young forwards.
I am not saying Hylton doesn't have his uses, but where were they for the first 4 months of the season? Miles is playing much better as we are not lumping it forward, getting it wide and he's fitter and more confident.
Otherwise, what amazing influence was he having on GAS, Kanu etc until 6 games ago? Couldn't see any and ok, he's not a rent-a-thug, but he's a pantomime villain and sadly I think we can, and should, do better
The change in style is definitely a huge part of it but I think it's also fair to say that improvements from coaching take time. If this level of form and quality keeps up from the likes of Leaburn and TC (and Ahadme apparently I guess) then I think we'd say seeing long-term benefits from coaching within four months is pretty good. These are very young and inexperienced players, I think we have to be realistic about the timeframes for improvement that will come from any amount of coaching beyond the very basics.
I think Leaburn is just about approaching how well he was playing before his injury, IMHO Ahadme has "improved" that much he can't get on the pitch Kanu has "improved" that much he can't get in the matchday squad
Sorry bud, the Hylton thing.... I'm not up for. It's jobs for his mates and there are I think better options for another striker in the squad on a pay as you play basis and a forwards coach. We are scoring less than last year. Always wanting to be proven wrong. Hylton was piss poor at Northampton and it made no sense bringing him in to our squad whether as a player/coach or not.
I don't know what's going on with Kanu since his injury but you've left out TC who has massively improved recently in terms of his approach off the ball. As I said, the improvements in Ahadme are at this point impossible to assess and probably fictional but Leaburn is definitely doing better at the aspect of his game that he's struggled with at times, which is his hold up play. Maybe that's attributed to Hylton maybe it isn't, we don't know. In the end we aren't going to agree as we don't see what goes on in training. Jones says the hold up play has improved because of the coach he brought in to help these players with their hold up play, I'm willing to accept that as it's not a huge stretch. You have a perception of Hylton yourself, quite a spiteful one but that's your right, and you're determined that he's contributing nothing to our strikers. In the end we don't know so there's not much point in worrying about it, either way we just have to hope the improvements and the form continue and it doesn't massively matter where it comes from as long as the wins keep coming in.
TC has improved - but Jones identified his potential and started working on it, well before Hylton entered the building. You won't change my mind on him I'm afraid. Time will tell, but given our resources, spends etc and our long line of academy success, TC's growth has as much to do with CAFC's handling of him long term rather than Danny Hylton's last few weeks.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
Unnecessary rant. Hylton might not be the player we want/need, but there's no doubt he has experience and knowledge to pass directly on to our young forwards.
I am not saying Hylton doesn't have his uses, but where were they for the first 4 months of the season? Miles is playing much better as we are not lumping it forward, getting it wide and he's fitter and more confident.
Otherwise, what amazing influence was he having on GAS, Kanu etc until 6 games ago? Couldn't see any and ok, he's not a rent-a-thug, but he's a pantomime villain and sadly I think we can, and should, do better
The change in style is definitely a huge part of it but I think it's also fair to say that improvements from coaching take time. If this level of form and quality keeps up from the likes of Leaburn and TC (and Ahadme apparently I guess) then I think we'd say seeing long-term benefits from coaching within four months is pretty good. These are very young and inexperienced players, I think we have to be realistic about the timeframes for improvement that will come from any amount of coaching beyond the very basics.
I think Leaburn is just about approaching how well he was playing before his injury, IMHO Ahadme has "improved" that much he can't get on the pitch Kanu has "improved" that much he can't get in the matchday squad
Sorry bud, the Hylton thing.... I'm not up for. It's jobs for his mates and there are I think better options for another striker in the squad on a pay as you play basis and a forwards coach. We are scoring less than last year. Always wanting to be proven wrong. Hylton was piss poor at Northampton and it made no sense bringing him in to our squad whether as a player/coach or not.
I don't know what's going on with Kanu since his injury but you've left out TC who has massively improved recently in terms of his approach off the ball. As I said, the improvements in Ahadme are at this point impossible to assess and probably fictional but Leaburn is definitely doing better at the aspect of his game that he's struggled with at times, which is his hold up play. Maybe that's attributed to Hylton maybe it isn't, we don't know. In the end we aren't going to agree as we don't see what goes on in training. Jones says the hold up play has improved because of the coach he brought in to help these players with their hold up play, I'm willing to accept that as it's not a huge stretch. You have a perception of Hylton yourself, quite a spiteful one but that's your right, and you're determined that he's contributing nothing to our strikers. In the end we don't know so there's not much point in worrying about it, either way we just have to hope the improvements and the form continue and it doesn't massively matter where it comes from as long as the wins keep coming in.
TC has improved - but Jones identified his potential and started working on it, well before Hylton entered the building. You won't change my mind on him I'm afraid. Time will tell, but given our resources, spends etc and our long line of academy success, TC's growth has as much to do with CAFC's handling of him long term rather than Danny Hylton's last few weeks.
That’s in-correct TC said himself the impact Hylton had not just on him but the young strikers at the club that was shown how happy they was for him when he scored
It is a waste of time trying to change the minds of blinkered people. I 100% agree with Garrymanilow. How do we know what Hylton adds? It is surely the job of the manager to decide and us to not be vindictive and be so set in our views that they can't be informed by knowledge and facts. And indeed we need to be neutral on things we don't and can't know.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
There’s no doubt a balance. NJ has to prove Hylton’s influence to justify extending his contract. We know having good senior pros in a squad is beneficial, especially when you have a lot of young players, including those senior pros who don’t play much. Powell had it with Euell, Cort (often on the bench in our title winning season), Hughes etc.
Hylton’s someone who’s made the most of his ability and I can believe he’d help young strikers learn how to use their body more effectively, adjust their touch for the better, deal with physical CBs and have belief in their own ability. The biggest criticism of Miles is usually his hold up play, these last few games it’s been more consistent. We’ll see if it continues, but he has the physicality, technical ability and intelligence to do it.
Regarding the whole Hylton situation - I know the SCP bringing in Euell Cort Hughes example keeps being brought up but I don't remember at the time himself or the SMT (or anyone at all really) highlighting the need to "trim the squad" when it comes near the time of the transfer windows. Maybe i'm just misremembering but that is my one big bugbear about the whole situation at the moment - would SCP have kept any or all of Cort/ Euell/Hughes or extended their contracts and gotten rid of other more active squad players to keep them around if faced with that? Is our squad now any bigger than it was then? It's maybe a better question for another thread but there seems to be a reticence to adding anyone in this window that just wasn't there in 2011 and I can't help having this sinking feeling that we are being primed as a fanbase to lose one or two or more big players under this "squad trimming" narrative, and I don't see how you could justify losing ANY decent player we have (Kanu? Taylor? Jones/Leaburn) and yet at the same time trying to justify extending Potts, Hylton and not returning A Campbell when they have given nothing substantial on the pitch other than poor performances.
Kanu and Leaburn aren't part of our squad per se, because they are too young to be counted. The others are non-playing breeze blocks around our neck and have to go. Ahadme (loan?) and Godden who dont fit current style should be offloaded with Eden, Gilly, Watson if fit, Taylor although I like him, and Berry.
Bring in Aasgard and if not Al Hadami, then Tete Yengi plus a pacy winger.
Forward’s father was a club hero and his mother looks after the squad but 6ft 7in youngster is thriving on his own merit
There is rarely a quiet evening in the Leaburn household, especially if Tracey is cooking jerk chicken. “She’s like a mother to everyone – I’m pretty sure some of the lads call her mum,” Miles Leaburn says with a laugh.
The Charlton forward is reflecting on his family’s unique position at the club. His father, Carl, played almost 400 games for them and remains a cult hero. Tracey, his mother, has been the head of first-team player care for a decade, and a couple of hours at the training ground in south-east London illustrate that she is the heartbeat of the League One club, who travel to the Championship side Preston in the FA Cup on Saturday.
“We have a lot of first-team players who come round for dinner – normally the ones who don’t have family round here,” she says. “That is not part of my job; that’s just me. The lads will hear I’m doing jerk chicken and it gives them somewhere to come. Rather than sitting in a flat on their own, it gives them another place that feels like home.
“I’ve always thought: ‘How would I feel if my son had to move up north when he was only 16?’ I’d want someone to look after him and care for him as if they were his parents. I worry about them – I don’t want them to be eating Uber Eats when they come to our club. I’d rather they come round and we help them.”
That assistance extends to providing a home for some of Charlton’s younger players, including the Jamaica international Kaheim Dixon, who joined in the summer and gets a lift from Miles to training every day.
“New players have come in from other clubs and they say that the people that have her role don’t do it in the same way,” Miles says. “My mum will go out with them and make sure they get the best apartment or show them where the shops are. She will also make sure their partners are looked after. I sometimes even see her walking around babysitting some of the players’ kids if they don’t have anywhere to take them for the day. She goes far beyond her role but she enjoys it too.”
Leaburn admits it was slightly embarrassing to have his mother around all the time when he broke into the first-team squad as a teenager. But having scored off the bench on his debut against Accrington in July 2022, before going on to register 14 goals that season, he quickly answered any suspicions of nepotism.
“At first there were people saying: ‘He’s only there because of his dad and blah blah blah,’” Miles says. “But that can be a motivation to show that I’m not just here because of him. Ever since I started scoring goals in my first professional season, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say: ‘He’s there because of his dad.’ Even he says that I have much more technical ability than him!”
Leaburn recently returned from almost a year out with two ankle injuries and a serious hamstring problem that required surgery. He followed up his first league goal of the campaign against Northampton just before Christmas with another against Cambridge and two brilliant strikes against high-flying Wycombe a few days later, including a sumptuous chip that went in off the crossbar.
That took his tally in the league for Charlton to 19 in 62 appearances – not far off the 53 his dad managed in 322. Leaburn Sr perhaps was not renowned for his clinical nature in front of goal but if any Charlton fans had been at the park near the Leaburns’ house last week then they would have seen him giving his son pointers about how to head the ball more effectively – a skill that he excelled in.
“He was just telling me about the dark arts and trying to protect myself,” says Miles. “Running in from the side and getting your arms up – all of that stuff. He said to make sure you’re never stepping back and approach the ball side on. It was an empty park because it was quite cold so I don’t think anyone saw us.”
With Miles 6ft 7in and potentially still growing, Tracey jokes that they are thinking of building a new door for their son, although the player hopes he has reached his full height. “I’m very tall now but I can still move,” he says. “But I just feel like it’s going to get to a point where I’m too tall. I think that’s why I’ve been doing well at the moment – I’ve got the big profile but people don’t expect that I can move my feet and do a couple of tricks.”
He appears equipped to follow in the footsteps of Charlton academy graduates such as Ademola Lookman, Ezri Konsa and Joe Gomez, whose pictures proudly hang in the club’s press room. Leaburn was in Chelsea’s academy between the ages nine and 16 before being released. Tracey, who organises the club’s annual PSA testing day after her father died from prostate cancer, says 24 clubs were in contention to sign him and Miles insists he chose Charlton because of the pathway the club gives to young players.
“I remember I got the news from Chelsea and literally the next day my mum was like: ‘Boom, we’re not going to wallow about. You’ve got trials here, here and here.’ The next day I was up on the astro out there trialing with Charlton. My mum was basically my agent.
“A big reason that I came here was the pathway that young players can have to the first team and I guess I’m more proof of that. At the moment there’s four of us who have come from the academy and what more could you want as a young player? Ever since I’ve come, the bond with the fans has been amazing and it helps you as a young player because you’re nervous. Fans chanting your name and even not getting on to you when you make a mistake – that gives you confidence as a young player to try stuff in games.”
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
There’s no doubt a balance. NJ has to prove Hylton’s influence to justify extending his contract. We know having good senior pros in a squad is beneficial, especially when you have a lot of young players, including those senior pros who don’t play much. Powell had it with Euell, Cort (often on the bench in our title winning season), Hughes etc.
Hylton’s someone who’s made the most of his ability and I can believe he’d help young strikers learn how to use their body more effectively, adjust their touch for the better, deal with physical CBs and have belief in their own ability. The biggest criticism of Miles is usually his hold up play, these last few games it’s been more consistent. We’ll see if it continues, but he has the physicality, technical ability and intelligence to do it.
Regarding the whole Hylton situation - I know the SCP bringing in Euell Cort Hughes example keeps being brought up but I don't remember at the time himself or the SMT (or anyone at all really) highlighting the need to "trim the squad" when it comes near the time of the transfer windows. Maybe i'm just misremembering but that is my one big bugbear about the whole situation at the moment - would SCP have kept any or all of Cort/ Euell/Hughes or extended their contracts and gotten rid of other more active squad players to keep them around if faced with that? Is our squad now any bigger than it was then? It's maybe a better question for another thread but there seems to be a reticence to adding anyone in this window that just wasn't there in 2011 and I can't help having this sinking feeling that we are being primed as a fanbase to lose one or two or more big players under this "squad trimming" narrative, and I don't see how you could justify losing ANY decent player we have (Kanu? Taylor? Jones/Leaburn) and yet at the same time trying to justify extending Potts, Hylton and not returning A Campbell when they have given nothing substantial on the pitch other than poor performances.
And regarding your comment about "trimming the squad", SCP didn't have SCMP tying his hands behind his back...
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
There’s no doubt a balance. NJ has to prove Hylton’s influence to justify extending his contract. We know having good senior pros in a squad is beneficial, especially when you have a lot of young players, including those senior pros who don’t play much. Powell had it with Euell, Cort (often on the bench in our title winning season), Hughes etc.
Hylton’s someone who’s made the most of his ability and I can believe he’d help young strikers learn how to use their body more effectively, adjust their touch for the better, deal with physical CBs and have belief in their own ability. The biggest criticism of Miles is usually his hold up play, these last few games it’s been more consistent. We’ll see if it continues, but he has the physicality, technical ability and intelligence to do it.
Regarding the whole Hylton situation - I know the SCP bringing in Euell Cort Hughes example keeps being brought up but I don't remember at the time himself or the SMT (or anyone at all really) highlighting the need to "trim the squad" when it comes near the time of the transfer windows. Maybe i'm just misremembering but that is my one big bugbear about the whole situation at the moment - would SCP have kept any or all of Cort/ Euell/Hughes or extended their contracts and gotten rid of other more active squad players to keep them around if faced with that? Is our squad now any bigger than it was then? It's maybe a better question for another thread but there seems to be a reticence to adding anyone in this window that just wasn't there in 2011 and I can't help having this sinking feeling that we are being primed as a fanbase to lose one or two or more big players under this "squad trimming" narrative, and I don't see how you could justify losing ANY decent player we have (Kanu? Taylor? Jones/Leaburn) and yet at the same time trying to justify extending Potts, Hylton and not returning A Campbell when they have given nothing substantial on the pitch other than poor performances.
Kanu and Leaburn aren't part of our squad per se, because they are too young to be counted. The others are non-playing breeze blocks around our neck and have to go. Ahadme (loan?) and Godden who dont fit current style should be offloaded with Eden, Gilly, Watson if fit, Taylor although I like him, and Berry.
Bring in Aasgard and if not Al Hadami, then Tete Yengi plus a pacy winger.
Al Hamadi 😂😂
Been getting minutes coming off the bench in most recent PL games for Ipswich, i'm sure he'd definitely fancy a move to league one.......
Supposedly he looks well out of his depth in the Prem, a friend who supports Town reckons he'll go out on loan if they can bring another striker in this window.
I think it's more to do with the fact Myles is not having it lumped forwards at all opportunities and we are playing it to feet and getting ball wide and TC provides pace off him as an option.
Rather than rent-a-thug Danny Hylton teaching him how to control a ball.
Sorry. Miles is getting back to the Miles before his injury and he's staying fit and is a year plus older in his body.
NOT Danny Hylton's amazing influence!
Jones is trying to justify Danny's involvement at Charlton which until six games ago was looking decidedly dog shit. Don't tell me - Danny had a moment of true inspiration having been in or around the club for 4 months+ already...... leave it out!
Lloyd Jones being fit has done more for Miles return to form than Danny Hylton.
There’s no doubt a balance. NJ has to prove Hylton’s influence to justify extending his contract. We know having good senior pros in a squad is beneficial, especially when you have a lot of young players, including those senior pros who don’t play much. Powell had it with Euell, Cort (often on the bench in our title winning season), Hughes etc.
Hylton’s someone who’s made the most of his ability and I can believe he’d help young strikers learn how to use their body more effectively, adjust their touch for the better, deal with physical CBs and have belief in their own ability. The biggest criticism of Miles is usually his hold up play, these last few games it’s been more consistent. We’ll see if it continues, but he has the physicality, technical ability and intelligence to do it.
Regarding the whole Hylton situation - I know the SCP bringing in Euell Cort Hughes example keeps being brought up but I don't remember at the time himself or the SMT (or anyone at all really) highlighting the need to "trim the squad" when it comes near the time of the transfer windows. Maybe i'm just misremembering but that is my one big bugbear about the whole situation at the moment - would SCP have kept any or all of Cort/ Euell/Hughes or extended their contracts and gotten rid of other more active squad players to keep them around if faced with that? Is our squad now any bigger than it was then? It's maybe a better question for another thread but there seems to be a reticence to adding anyone in this window that just wasn't there in 2011 and I can't help having this sinking feeling that we are being primed as a fanbase to lose one or two or more big players under this "squad trimming" narrative, and I don't see how you could justify losing ANY decent player we have (Kanu? Taylor? Jones/Leaburn) and yet at the same time trying to justify extending Potts, Hylton and not returning A Campbell when they have given nothing substantial on the pitch other than poor performances.
And regarding your comment about "trimming the squad", SCP didn't have SCMP tying his hands behind his back...
This says SCMP came in for 11/12, the season we won L1. Not clear when if it was implemented though, so we may have got some signings in before rules were applied.
He did though have the benefit of short term loans, which we used well that season to cover injuries.
Forward’s father was a club hero and his mother looks after the squad but 6ft 7in youngster is thriving on his own merit
There is rarely a quiet evening in the Leaburn household, especially if Tracey is cooking jerk chicken. “She’s like a mother to everyone – I’m pretty sure some of the lads call her mum,” Miles Leaburn says with a laugh.
The Charlton forward is reflecting on his family’s unique position at the club. His father, Carl, played almost 400 games for them and remains a cult hero. Tracey, his mother, has been the head of first-team player care for a decade, and a couple of hours at the training ground in south-east London illustrate that she is the heartbeat of the League One club, who travel to the Championship side Preston in the FA Cup on Saturday.
“We have a lot of first-team players who come round for dinner – normally the ones who don’t have family round here,” she says. “That is not part of my job; that’s just me. The lads will hear I’m doing jerk chicken and it gives them somewhere to come. Rather than sitting in a flat on their own, it gives them another place that feels like home.
“I’ve always thought: ‘How would I feel if my son had to move up north when he was only 16?’ I’d want someone to look after him and care for him as if they were his parents. I worry about them – I don’t want them to be eating Uber Eats when they come to our club. I’d rather they come round and we help them.”
That assistance extends to providing a home for some of Charlton’s younger players, including the Jamaica international Kaheim Dixon, who joined in the summer and gets a lift from Miles to training every day.
“New players have come in from other clubs and they say that the people that have her role don’t do it in the same way,” Miles says. “My mum will go out with them and make sure they get the best apartment or show them where the shops are. She will also make sure their partners are looked after. I sometimes even see her walking around babysitting some of the players’ kids if they don’t have anywhere to take them for the day. She goes far beyond her role but she enjoys it too.”
Leaburn admits it was slightly embarrassing to have his mother around all the time when he broke into the first-team squad as a teenager. But having scored off the bench on his debut against Accrington in July 2022, before going on to register 14 goals that season, he quickly answered any suspicions of nepotism.
“At first there were people saying: ‘He’s only there because of his dad and blah blah blah,’” Miles says. “But that can be a motivation to show that I’m not just here because of him. Ever since I started scoring goals in my first professional season, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say: ‘He’s there because of his dad.’ Even he says that I have much more technical ability than him!”
Leaburn recently returned from almost a year out with two ankle injuries and a serious hamstring problem that required surgery. He followed up his first league goal of the campaign against Northampton just before Christmas with another against Cambridge and two brilliant strikes against high-flying Wycombe a few days later, including a sumptuous chip that went in off the crossbar.
That took his tally in the league for Charlton to 19 in 62 appearances – not far off the 53 his dad managed in 322. Leaburn Sr perhaps was not renowned for his clinical nature in front of goal but if any Charlton fans had been at the park near the Leaburns’ house last week then they would have seen him giving his son pointers about how to head the ball more effectively – a skill that he excelled in.
“He was just telling me about the dark arts and trying to protect myself,” says Miles. “Running in from the side and getting your arms up – all of that stuff. He said to make sure you’re never stepping back and approach the ball side on. It was an empty park because it was quite cold so I don’t think anyone saw us.”
With Miles 6ft 7in and potentially still growing, Tracey jokes that they are thinking of building a new door for their son, although the player hopes he has reached his full height. “I’m very tall now but I can still move,” he says. “But I just feel like it’s going to get to a point where I’m too tall. I think that’s why I’ve been doing well at the moment – I’ve got the big profile but people don’t expect that I can move my feet and do a couple of tricks.”
He appears equipped to follow in the footsteps of Charlton academy graduates such as Ademola Lookman, Ezri Konsa and Joe Gomez, whose pictures proudly hang in the club’s press room. Leaburn was in Chelsea’s academy between the ages nine and 16 before being released. Tracey, who organises the club’s annual PSA testing day after her father died from prostate cancer, says 24 clubs were in contention to sign him and Miles insists he chose Charlton because of the pathway the club gives to young players.
“I remember I got the news from Chelsea and literally the next day my mum was like: ‘Boom, we’re not going to wallow about. You’ve got trials here, here and here.’ The next day I was up on the astro out there trialing with Charlton. My mum was basically my agent.
“A big reason that I came here was the pathway that young players can have to the first team and I guess I’m more proof of that. At the moment there’s four of us who have come from the academy and what more could you want as a young player? Ever since I’ve come, the bond with the fans has been amazing and it helps you as a young player because you’re nervous. Fans chanting your name and even not getting on to you when you make a mistake – that gives you confidence as a young player to try stuff in games.”
Forward’s father was a club hero and his mother looks after the squad but 6ft 7in youngster is thriving on his own merit
There is rarely a quiet evening in the Leaburn household, especially if Tracey is cooking jerk chicken. “She’s like a mother to everyone – I’m pretty sure some of the lads call her mum,” Miles Leaburn says with a laugh.
The Charlton forward is reflecting on his family’s unique position at the club. His father, Carl, played almost 400 games for them and remains a cult hero. Tracey, his mother, has been the head of first-team player care for a decade, and a couple of hours at the training ground in south-east London illustrate that she is the heartbeat of the League One club, who travel to the Championship side Preston in the FA Cup on Saturday.
“We have a lot of first-team players who come round for dinner – normally the ones who don’t have family round here,” she says. “That is not part of my job; that’s just me. The lads will hear I’m doing jerk chicken and it gives them somewhere to come. Rather than sitting in a flat on their own, it gives them another place that feels like home.
“I’ve always thought: ‘How would I feel if my son had to move up north when he was only 16?’ I’d want someone to look after him and care for him as if they were his parents. I worry about them – I don’t want them to be eating Uber Eats when they come to our club. I’d rather they come round and we help them.”
That assistance extends to providing a home for some of Charlton’s younger players, including the Jamaica international Kaheim Dixon, who joined in the summer and gets a lift from Miles to training every day.
“New players have come in from other clubs and they say that the people that have her role don’t do it in the same way,” Miles says. “My mum will go out with them and make sure they get the best apartment or show them where the shops are. She will also make sure their partners are looked after. I sometimes even see her walking around babysitting some of the players’ kids if they don’t have anywhere to take them for the day. She goes far beyond her role but she enjoys it too.”
Leaburn admits it was slightly embarrassing to have his mother around all the time when he broke into the first-team squad as a teenager. But having scored off the bench on his debut against Accrington in July 2022, before going on to register 14 goals that season, he quickly answered any suspicions of nepotism.
“At first there were people saying: ‘He’s only there because of his dad and blah blah blah,’” Miles says. “But that can be a motivation to show that I’m not just here because of him. Ever since I started scoring goals in my first professional season, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say: ‘He’s there because of his dad.’ Even he says that I have much more technical ability than him!”
Leaburn recently returned from almost a year out with two ankle injuries and a serious hamstring problem that required surgery. He followed up his first league goal of the campaign against Northampton just before Christmas with another against Cambridge and two brilliant strikes against high-flying Wycombe a few days later, including a sumptuous chip that went in off the crossbar.
That took his tally in the league for Charlton to 19 in 62 appearances – not far off the 53 his dad managed in 322. Leaburn Sr perhaps was not renowned for his clinical nature in front of goal but if any Charlton fans had been at the park near the Leaburns’ house last week then they would have seen him giving his son pointers about how to head the ball more effectively – a skill that he excelled in.
“He was just telling me about the dark arts and trying to protect myself,” says Miles. “Running in from the side and getting your arms up – all of that stuff. He said to make sure you’re never stepping back and approach the ball side on. It was an empty park because it was quite cold so I don’t think anyone saw us.”
With Miles 6ft 7in and potentially still growing, Tracey jokes that they are thinking of building a new door for their son, although the player hopes he has reached his full height. “I’m very tall now but I can still move,” he says. “But I just feel like it’s going to get to a point where I’m too tall. I think that’s why I’ve been doing well at the moment – I’ve got the big profile but people don’t expect that I can move my feet and do a couple of tricks.”
He appears equipped to follow in the footsteps of Charlton academy graduates such as Ademola Lookman, Ezri Konsa and Joe Gomez, whose pictures proudly hang in the club’s press room. Leaburn was in Chelsea’s academy between the ages nine and 16 before being released. Tracey, who organises the club’s annual PSA testing day after her father died from prostate cancer, says 24 clubs were in contention to sign him and Miles insists he chose Charlton because of the pathway the club gives to young players.
“I remember I got the news from Chelsea and literally the next day my mum was like: ‘Boom, we’re not going to wallow about. You’ve got trials here, here and here.’ The next day I was up on the astro out there trialing with Charlton. My mum was basically my agent.
“A big reason that I came here was the pathway that young players can have to the first team and I guess I’m more proof of that. At the moment there’s four of us who have come from the academy and what more could you want as a young player? Ever since I’ve come, the bond with the fans has been amazing and it helps you as a young player because you’re nervous. Fans chanting your name and even not getting on to you when you make a mistake – that gives you confidence as a young player to try stuff in games.”
4 goals and 2 assists in 4 games, 18 months left on his deal, lovely fluffy article in the Guardian reminding everyone what a great lad and player he is and now League One Player of the Month. All while the January transfer window is open. I like Miles but he's being a real dick this month
4 goals and 2 assists in 4 games, 18 months left on his deal, lovely fluffy article in the Guardian reminding everyone what a great lad and player he is and now League One Player of the Month. All while the January transfer window is open. I like Miles but he's being a real dick this month
Time for him to have a really specific minor fitness issue that just so happens to completely clear up 01st February please.
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The striker is up against Exeter City's Millenic Alli, Leyton Orient's Omar Beckles and Birmingham City's Jay Stansfield for the accolade, with the winner announced on Friday, January 10th.
The judging panel comprises Sky Sports’ EFL expert Don Goodman, EFL Chief Executive Trevor Birch and Sky Bet EFL trader Ivor Davies.
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/leaburn-december-player-month-award
https://www.efl.com/news/2025/january/08/sky-bet-league-one--manager---player-of-the-month-nominees/
Ahadme has "improved" that much he can't get on the pitch
Kanu has "improved" that much he can't get in the matchday squad
Sorry bud, the Hylton thing.... I'm not up for. It's jobs for his mates and there are I think better options for another striker in the squad on a pay as you play basis and a forwards coach. We are scoring less than last year. Always wanting to be proven wrong. Hylton was piss poor at Northampton and it made no sense bringing him in to our squad whether as a player/coach or not.
when he scored
Charlton’s Miles Leaburn: ‘People were saying I was only there because of my dad’
Forward’s father was a club hero and his mother looks after the squad but 6ft 7in youngster is thriving on his own merit
There is rarely a quiet evening in the Leaburn household, especially if Tracey is cooking jerk chicken. “She’s like a mother to everyone – I’m pretty sure some of the lads call her mum,” Miles Leaburn says with a laugh.
The Charlton forward is reflecting on his family’s unique position at the club. His father, Carl, played almost 400 games for them and remains a cult hero. Tracey, his mother, has been the head of first-team player care for a decade, and a couple of hours at the training ground in south-east London illustrate that she is the heartbeat of the League One club, who travel to the Championship side Preston in the FA Cup on Saturday.
“We have a lot of first-team players who come round for dinner – normally the ones who don’t have family round here,” she says. “That is not part of my job; that’s just me. The lads will hear I’m doing jerk chicken and it gives them somewhere to come. Rather than sitting in a flat on their own, it gives them another place that feels like home.
“I’ve always thought: ‘How would I feel if my son had to move up north when he was only 16?’ I’d want someone to look after him and care for him as if they were his parents. I worry about them – I don’t want them to be eating Uber Eats when they come to our club. I’d rather they come round and we help them.”
That assistance extends to providing a home for some of Charlton’s younger players, including the Jamaica international Kaheim Dixon, who joined in the summer and gets a lift from Miles to training every day.
“New players have come in from other clubs and they say that the people that have her role don’t do it in the same way,” Miles says. “My mum will go out with them and make sure they get the best apartment or show them where the shops are. She will also make sure their partners are looked after. I sometimes even see her walking around babysitting some of the players’ kids if they don’t have anywhere to take them for the day. She goes far beyond her role but she enjoys it too.”
Leaburn admits it was slightly embarrassing to have his mother around all the time when he broke into the first-team squad as a teenager. But having scored off the bench on his debut against Accrington in July 2022, before going on to register 14 goals that season, he quickly answered any suspicions of nepotism.
“At first there were people saying: ‘He’s only there because of his dad and blah blah blah,’” Miles says. “But that can be a motivation to show that I’m not just here because of him. Ever since I started scoring goals in my first professional season, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say: ‘He’s there because of his dad.’ Even he says that I have much more technical ability than him!”
Leaburn recently returned from almost a year out with two ankle injuries and a serious hamstring problem that required surgery. He followed up his first league goal of the campaign against Northampton just before Christmas with another against Cambridge and two brilliant strikes against high-flying Wycombe a few days later, including a sumptuous chip that went in off the crossbar.
That took his tally in the league for Charlton to 19 in 62 appearances – not far off the 53 his dad managed in 322. Leaburn Sr perhaps was not renowned for his clinical nature in front of goal but if any Charlton fans had been at the park near the Leaburns’ house last week then they would have seen him giving his son pointers about how to head the ball more effectively – a skill that he excelled in.
“He was just telling me about the dark arts and trying to protect myself,” says Miles. “Running in from the side and getting your arms up – all of that stuff. He said to make sure you’re never stepping back and approach the ball side on. It was an empty park because it was quite cold so I don’t think anyone saw us.”
With Miles 6ft 7in and potentially still growing, Tracey jokes that they are thinking of building a new door for their son, although the player hopes he has reached his full height. “I’m very tall now but I can still move,” he says. “But I just feel like it’s going to get to a point where I’m too tall. I think that’s why I’ve been doing well at the moment – I’ve got the big profile but people don’t expect that I can move my feet and do a couple of tricks.”
He appears equipped to follow in the footsteps of Charlton academy graduates such as Ademola Lookman, Ezri Konsa and Joe Gomez, whose pictures proudly hang in the club’s press room. Leaburn was in Chelsea’s academy between the ages nine and 16 before being released. Tracey, who organises the club’s annual PSA testing day after her father died from prostate cancer, says 24 clubs were in contention to sign him and Miles insists he chose Charlton because of the pathway the club gives to young players.
“I remember I got the news from Chelsea and literally the next day my mum was like: ‘Boom, we’re not going to wallow about. You’ve got trials here, here and here.’ The next day I was up on the astro out there trialing with Charlton. My mum was basically my agent.
“A big reason that I came here was the pathway that young players can have to the first team and I guess I’m more proof of that. At the moment there’s four of us who have come from the academy and what more could you want as a young player? Ever since I’ve come, the bond with the fans has been amazing and it helps you as a young player because you’re nervous. Fans chanting your name and even not getting on to you when you make a mistake – that gives you confidence as a young player to try stuff in games.”
Supposedly he looks well out of his depth in the Prem, a friend who supports Town reckons he'll go out on loan if they can bring another striker in this window.
He did though have the benefit of short term loans, which we used well that season to cover injuries.
Seriously, it's great that it focuses on Tracey as much as him. About time she got some national recognition.
I'd have said more like 6ft 4 or 5