I'll give him another year but can't say what I've seen on the pitch has been good.
The constant 'he gets us' while we lose to Accrington, Cambridge and Morecambe will be tiresome.
P: 5 W: 3 D:2 L: 0 GF: 14 GA: 4 since this comment 😉.
We play well when we play for nothing
Happens most seasons we end up going on a run when midtable is confirmed, odd really.
I think we’ve just had a run of ‘easier’ games and don’t really have our typical injury crisis - but as we’ve seen in the past, we have a habit of doing rubbish and not performing in ‘winnable’ games.
I’m still not convinced, especially once we come up against top 6 teams, so I’ll be interested to see if we can keep this sort of consistency up.
I'll give him another year but can't say what I've seen on the pitch has been good.
The constant 'he gets us' while we lose to Accrington, Cambridge and Morecambe will be tiresome.
P: 5 W: 3 D:2 L: 0 GF: 14 GA: 4 since this comment 😉.
We play well when we play for nothing
Happens most seasons we end up going on a run when midtable is confirmed, odd really.
I think we’ve just had a run of ‘easier’ games and don’t really have our typical injury crisis - but as we’ve seen in the past, we have a habit of doing rubbish and not performing in ‘winnable’ games.
I’m still not convinced, especially once we come up against top 6 teams, so I’ll be interested to see if we can keep this sort of consistency up.
We’re twelve points off the top six - so many more missed opportunities earlier in the season against the likes of Forest Green, Cheltenham, Port Vale, MK.
It certainly would’ve been helpful to pick up more points from games against Bolton, Derby, Sheff Wed and Plymouth because every match is worth three points.
But I’m just glad to see we’re finally looking like regularly beating teams below and around us. Long may that continue.
Holden post match interview full of praise for the performance but tinged with a bit of heartache.
He’s openly wondering why it’s taken us until this point to start playing like this.
Yeah totally, there’s not been enough of this sort of performance - and not just this year.
Quiet often we’ve pulled really battling strong performances against ‘better’ opposition and then completely failed to dominate in games where you really feel we should.
I’ll keep banging the drum around this, but for me this year is our major issue is when we have underperformed we’ve not managed to remain tight at the back and get those scrappy 1-0’s. Our defence has just been far to leaky for us to mount anything serious.
It wouldn’t really see us anywhere near the automatics, but we could have been pushing top 6 if it was not for those 1-1’s - especially early in the season.
Holden post match interview full of praise for the performance but tinged with a bit of heartache.
He’s openly wondering why it’s taken us until this point to start playing like this.
Yeah totally, there’s not been enough of this sort of performance - and not just this year.
Quiet often we’ve pulled really battling strong performances against ‘better’ opposition and then completely failed to dominate in games where you really feel we should.
I’ll keep banging the drum around this, but for me this year is our major issue is when we have underperformed we’ve not managed to remain tight at the back and get those scrappy 1-0’s. Our defence has just been far to leaky for us to mount anything serious.
It wouldn’t really see us anywhere near the automatics, but we could have been pushing top 6 if it was not for those 1-1’s - especially early in the season.
Yep… the results below from a CAFC team at this level 🤢🤮
Holden post match interview full of praise for the performance but tinged with a bit of heartache.
He’s openly wondering why it’s taken us until this point to start playing like this.
Yeah totally, there’s not been enough of this sort of performance - and not just this year.
Quiet often we’ve pulled really battling strong performances against ‘better’ opposition and then completely failed to dominate in games where you really feel we should.
I’ll keep banging the drum around this, but for me this year is our major issue is when we have underperformed we’ve not managed to remain tight at the back and get those scrappy 1-0’s. Our defence has just been far to leaky for us to mount anything serious.
It wouldn’t really see us anywhere near the automatics, but we could have been pushing top 6 if it was not for those 1-1’s - especially early in the season.
Yep… the results below from a CAFC team at this level 🤢🤮
Two things to consider here: 1. New managers generally come into clubs when there are serious problems. Definitely the case with us. 2. Holden is a relatively inexperienced manager. Therefore, all in all, I think he’s done a very good job so far.
Holden: played 18, won 8, drawn 4, lost 6 (1.55ppg)
Hayes: played 1, lost 1
Garner: played 20, won 5, drew 9, lost 6 (1.2ppg)
Tbf if Garner had not lost Leaburn to injury those records would probably be a lot closer. Leaburn has also improved a lot which has benefitted Holden. I think both managers performed as expected with what they had, but the problem has been what they had to work with
Holden: played 18, won 8, drawn 4, lost 6 (1.55ppg)
Hayes: played 1, lost 1
Garner: played 20, won 5, drew 9, lost 6 (1.2ppg)
Tbf if Garner had not lost Leaburn to injury those records would probably be a lot closer. Leaburn has also improved a lot which has benefitted Holden. I think both managers performed as expected with what they had, but the problem has been what they had to work with
I think that sums up all our managers over the last few years
One thing that Holden has done better than Garner (arguably) and Jackson (definitely) is sticking to the Curbs mantra of not letting highs be too high or lows too low.
When results have turned or we've had a loss then the players have generally seemed to "reset" and start again instead of the streaky performances of before with a run of wins that get derailed by a poor game and suddenly going on a string of losses instead.
Oh baby, do you know what he’s worth Dean Holden is the best on Earth With his ginger hair he’s just what we need Taking Charlton up the football league
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Happens most seasons we end up going on a run when midtable is confirmed, odd really.
I’m still not convinced, especially once we come up against top 6 teams, so I’ll be interested to see if we can keep this sort of consistency up.
It certainly would’ve been helpful to pick up more points from games against Bolton, Derby, Sheff Wed and Plymouth because every match is worth three points.
But I’m just glad to see we’re finally looking like regularly beating teams below and around us. Long may that continue.
Quiet often we’ve pulled really battling strong performances against ‘better’ opposition and then completely failed to dominate in games where you really feel we should.
I’ll keep banging the drum around this, but for me this year is our major issue is when we have underperformed we’ve not managed to remain tight at the back and get those scrappy 1-0’s. Our defence has just been far to leaky for us to mount anything serious.
Charlton 1-1 Forest Green (24th)
Charlton 1-1 Oxford (20th)
Charlton 0-2 MK (19th)
Charlton 0-1 Cheltenham (16th)
Charlton 1-2 Bristol Rovers (15th)
3 points from a possible 18…
There's no whitewashing this season, we've been rubbish.
Hayes: played 1, lost 1
Garner: played 20, won 5, drew 9, lost 6 (1.2ppg)
1. New managers generally come into clubs when there are serious problems. Definitely the case with us.
2. Holden is a relatively inexperienced manager.
Therefore, all in all, I think he’s done a very good job so far.
And only 3 points or so off the play-offs... not good enough no, but is that down to the manager or the players?
When results have turned or we've had a loss then the players have generally seemed to "reset" and start again instead of the streaky performances of before with a run of wins that get derailed by a poor game and suddenly going on a string of losses instead.
Oh baby, do you know what he’s worth
Dean Holden is the best on Earth
With his ginger hair he’s just what we need
Taking Charlton up the football league
If this takes off I’ll take my credit. If it doesn’t, you have never heard of Sage before and I was never here.